Mute Era - Night Dreams Of Day
ARTIST.....: Mute Era
TITLE......: Night Dreams Of Day
LABEL......: Self-Released
URL........: http://www.myspace.com/muteera
RIP DATE...: May-28-2008
STORE DATE.: Mar-00-2008
GENRE......: Indie
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 20,8 MB
Track Listing:
01 - Intro 00:54
02 - The Way She Played Back 07:12
03 - I Will Take My Time 04:56
04 - Untitled 00:45
05 - I Say, Again 02:42
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16:29 min
Release Notes:
After four years spent making rounds, Minneapolis two-piece Mute
Era at last have a release to decorate their inestimable rep. Two
new companion EPs, Light Dreams of Darkness and Night Dreams of
Day, function like Rorschach folds in which you can find your
meanings wherever you please. Though the albums sometimes lack the
thematic arc that companion releases can demand, they never tread
water and the tracks are spare, infectious art-rock dazzlers that
scatter across the discs like viral spores.
The bigger surprises come in Night Dreams of Day. "The Way She
Played Back" is the most throttling of the offered tracks, a
sweaty punk chunk that boils away to a bone by song's end. "I Say
It Again" finds Nikaido in a pastoral, acoustic pose, his voice
occupying Driscoll's tambourine like a prairie haunt. But the most
startling turns lie in "I Will Take My Time", a patchwork of
fraying wires, half-present vocals, and wildly reverberating
guitars that are in earshot of structure, but only barely. The
song lurches through its four and a half minutes in a menacing
stagger, and the track is an unbroken dogùscary, hostile, and
fascinating.
Lovingly hand-numbered, the albums are clearly labors of patience,
and a listen will require some reciprocity. Adaptation through
repetition is Mute Era's stock in trade, and each song is a
musical model of natural selection - within each successive bar,
bridge, and progression exist favorable mutations passed on by the
last. Wherever you drop the needle on these EPs, expect to end up
a long way from where you began. (www.citypages.com)