No-Man - Carolina Skeletons -EP- (c) 1998 3rd Stone Records Ltd.
Artist....: No-Man
Album.....: Carolina Skeletons
Type......: EP
Source....: CDDA
Tracks....: 04
Genre.....: Alternative
Label.....: 3rd Stone Records Ltd.
Catalogue#: stone 037CD
Encoder...: LAME 3.97
Quality...: VBR kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint-Stereo
URL.......: http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/7050731/a/Carolina+Skeletons.htm
Tracklist:
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01 Carolina Skeletons 05:15
02 Something Falls 03:32
03 Close Your Eyes 08:18
04 Carolina Reprise 03:09
Total:24,0 MB / 20:14 min
Release Notes:
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The first taste of what would eventually become the Returning Jesus
album three years later, Carolina Skeletons finds the No-Man
partnership still in fine creative health, with a quartet of tunes on
offer. The title track appears both in full form and a briefer
piano-only reprise at the end -- the full version is an absolute
winner, a slow, striking blend of sparse, echoed percussion, guitar and
keyboards from Wilson topped with Bowness' regret-tinged lyric about
loss, struggle and the past. It has the build of an anthem while
retaining its soft, understated approach -- simply put, marvelous. The
other two songs are more than worth it as well -- "Something Fails"
relies on acoustic guitar for its lead melody, Wilson adding delicate
touches on keyboards and other instruments for its fragile sweep, while
"Close Your Eyes" creates a web of beauty from minimal, liquid electric
guitar and a variety of percussion. On both, as always, Bowness is
simply wondrous, his vocals suffused with yearning passion.