ARTiST: Death Vessel
ALBUM: Nothing Is Precious Enough For Us
BiTRATE: 160kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: Subpop
GENRE: Indie
SiZE: 46.48 megs
PLAYTiME: 0h 39min 26sec total
RiP DATE: 2008-08-26
STORE DATE: 2008-08-22
Track List:
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01. Block My Eye 4:11
02. Jitterakadie 2:43
03. The Widening 2:33
04. Bruno's Torso 3:53
05. Obadiah in Oblivion 3:04
06. Exploded View 2:45
07. Fences Around Field 3:18
08. Peninsula 5:18
09. Circa 3:41
10. Belt of Foam 5:04
11. Untitled 2:56
Release Notes:
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This collection of music was written and sung by Joel Thibodeau. It is unlike
anything youÆve ever heard. People will call it many things. Few will get it
right. This is Death Vessel.
Death VesselÆs debut album Stay Close was released in 2005 to critical acclaim.
Since that albumÆs release Death Vessel has toured with Iron & Wine, Low, Jose
Gonzalez, and The Books, among others. Recorded with longtime
producer/collaborator Pete Donnelly (The Figgs) at his New Jersey studio, and
various locales across the northeast, Nothing Is Precious Enough for Us is Death
VesselÆs Sub Pop debut. While in recent years Joel has toured primarily as a
solo performer, and the songs are inarguably mesmerizing and relevant in that
setting, on record they take on a new life, thanks to his and DonnellyÆs
inspired, and often unusual, arrangements, and the contributions of numerous
friends and players. The album exudes a unique, wide-scope ambition. Its musical
reach is fully extendedù-deep into the past, grounded in the present and nodding
to the future. Owing to the gritty avarice of JoelÆs singular spirit, voice and
musicality, the songs sound as progressive, experimental and modern as they do
antique and old-world. The music is haunting and spiritual, mysterious and kind,
ageless and contemporary, soulful and psychedelic. In short, itÆs where the
requiem meets rock ænÆ roll.
ôNow I am versed in silence/my throat hurts, not from yelling but from holding
back,ö Joel sings on ôBlock My Eye,ö the albumÆs opening track. And thatÆs ok,
because the music speaks for itself. And nothing ever sounded so loud, and so
clear.