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███▓ Date ......: 04-30-2008 ▄▓███▄▄ ▀ ▄▄█▓▄ ▀▓░
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█▓ 01. A Grave Is A Grim Horse 04:02 ▓███
█▓ 02. Clothes Of Sand 02:30 ▓███
█▓ 03. The Acre 03:28 ▓███
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███▓ Perhaps the history of the song is innate ▓█
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███▓ from Steve Von Till's third Neurot Recordings ▓█
███▓ solo outing A Grave Is A Grim Horse. ▓█
███▓ Intertwined with interpretations of songs by ▓█
███▓ Nick Drake, Townes Van Zant, Mickey Newberry ▓█
███▓ and Lyle Lovett, Von Till's powerful yet subtly ▓█
███▓ graceful originals merge with a lexicon that ▓█
███▓ manifests as something beyond signature, ▓█
███▓ something beyond the concept of persona that ▓█
███▓ popular culture has repeatedly sold us over the ▓█
███▓ past 50 years. Where his previous releases ▓█
███▓ showed reverence for folk music forms of the ▓█
███▓ past, A Grave Is A Grim Horse peers directly ▓█
███▓ inward, drawing from this history of song and ▓█
███▓ earnestly embracing the need we all share to ▓█
███▓ etch our mark upon the artifacts that will ▓█
███▓ ultimately survive us. ▓█
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███▓ Listening to the album, there's a troubling ▓█
███▓ theme that reveals itself only when we're not ▓█
███▓ seeking it. It tells us that we are nothing ▓█
███▓ more than part of the sum of an elusive whole, ▓█
███▓ but sometimes the patterns that define us can ▓█
███▓ be harnessed, as they are here. And, what's ▓█
███▓ most striking about the album is that Von ▓█
███▓ Till's originals are so immediately captivating ▓█
███▓ and threadbare that they seem more familiar ▓█
███▓ upon first listen than the works of the ▓█
███▓ time-honored songwriters to whom he pays ▓█
███▓ tribute. Songs like the title track and ▓█
███▓ "Looking For Dry Land" show Von Till coming ▓█
███▓ into his own as a composer and arranger, ▓█
███▓ perfectly adorning songs with flourishes of ▓█
███▓ swooping strings, pedal steel, organ, et al. ▓█
███▓ There's a somber restraint throughout, allowing ▓█
███▓ the plaintive melodies to elevate each song ▓█
███▓ beneath Von Till's breathy whisper that's ▓█
███▓ reminiscent of similarly raspy, ▓█
███▓ whiskey-throttled voices of Mark Lanegan and ▓█
███▓ Michael Gira. ▓█
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███▓ vocalist and guitarist in Bay Area heavy ▓█
███▓ post-psychedelic punk legends Neurosis. But, ▓█
███▓ the breadth of his talents and interests ▓█
███▓ reaching far beyond that band's thunderous ▓█
███▓ intensity have been well established over the ▓█
███▓ course of related projects like the ▓█
███▓ experimental offshoot Tribes of Neurot, ▓█
███▓ psych-drone band Harvestman and acoustic guitar ▓█
███▓ based solo releases As The Crow Flies (2000) ▓█
███▓ and If I Should Fall To the Field (2002). Von ▓█
███▓ Till's intense obsession with ancestry and many ▓█
███▓ things ancient is deeply ingrained in all his ▓█
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███▓ recordings. His first two albums focused ▓█
███▓ intently upon sounds and stories of ages past, ▓█
███▓ eloquently serving to reconnect with forgotten ▓█
███▓ mythologies and long-buried verse. While the ▓█
███▓ same reverence remains on A Grave Is A Grim ▓█
███▓ Horse, it is also Von Till's most personal and ▓█
███▓ confident effort to date. Having traded city ▓█
███▓ life for a rural existence in the open skies, ▓█
███▓ wilderness and dense forests of Northern Idaho, ▓█
███▓ the songwriter's dedication to these ▓█
███▓ transcendent themes seem all the more focused ▓█
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███▓ title track, as the singer mournfully strums a ▓█
███▓ bleary twanging guitar line, yearning for a ▓█
███▓ departed elder, singing, "what the dead reveal ▓█
███▓ to the living/ My blanket can't keep out this ▓█
███▓ cold/ A grave is a grim horse to ride." The ▓█
███▓ last line poignantly punctuated by a loud, ▓█
███▓ chiming guitar line drenched in reverb. ▓█
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███▓ lifetime, that Von Till makes his own by ▓█
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███▓ smudged, fatalistic sounding string ▓█
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███▓ London book of the same name that eerily ▓█
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███▓ since departed. The finality of album closer ▓█
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███▓ echoing that of an old Irish limerick of the ▓█
███▓ grim horse that delivers us to whatever may lie ▓█
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███▓ played a temporary host to this virus of song. ▓█
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