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Artist: Anathallo
Album: Canopy Glow
Label: Anticon
Playtime: 44:22 min
Genre: Indie
URL: http://www.myspace.com/anathallo
Rip date: 2008-10-24
Street date: 2008-11-00
Size: 64.41 MB
Type: Advance
Quality: 192 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
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ItÆs fitting that Chicago indie art-pop ensemble Anathallo traces its origins
to a small Michigan town named Mt. Pleasant. There was no actual mountain
nearby, but like most middle-class burgs, the place begged for input from
active imaginationsùfor makeshift raft races on the Chippewa River, bridge
dives in the summer, and rollerskating down the abandoned slides of an old
water park. In the 16 years before the founding of Anathallo, Matthew JoyntÆs
days were filled with these things, and what space was left went to the arts:
music lessons, theater productions, dance companies, limited engagement
lip-sync shows (co-produced, for a parental audience of two, by his big sis),
and a proto-grunge band called Clockwork that rehearsed like its namesake
(6:30 a.m. every day before school). In 2000, Matt finally got serious, and
with a crew of self-taught musicians and marching band ruffians, he assembled
an ensemble that, to this day, exists at the exact intersection of innocence,
optimism, ability and curiosity.
AnathalloÆs early years were likewise packed, despite having seven or eight
members at any given time. They released four independent EPs (one
hand-painted, another packaged with dirt and wildflower seeds), stuffed their
many odd instruments into every room thatÆd allow it (fansÆ houses, 4-H
clubs, churches, veterans halls), and slumbered under the roof of their green
Dodge Caravan in hospital parking lots (these had the best lighting) when
they were away from home, which was often. By the time the band released its
first full-length in 2006ùa shifting work of virtuosity and earnestness
called Floating WorldùtheyÆd racked up an astounding 18 national tours. The
bulk of that year was also spent on the road (with two glockenspiels, as many
an awed critic reported), and upon returning home, the band realized it was
time to leave again.
Offered a permanent residency at a Chicago church (via friend and artist Tim
Lowly), Anathallo moved en masse to the Windy City in January of 2007. They
took up odd jobs tending to other peopleÆs food, dogs and data, and practiced
at Berry United Methodist for five hours each night. Taking their nameÆs
Greek translation to heart (ôto renew, refresh, or bloom againö), the crewÆs
current lineup tangled up their roots in new soil, cultivated their
overlapping interests in literature, music and film, and grew heartily toward
a new album. Following a trip out to California for Coachella, the seven
Anathallians dropped their day-jobs and hunkered down in one of the churchÆs
humid old rooms. With the daycare kids next door shooting them funny faces,
the band wrote Canopy Glow, an album that finds the band in the same blessed
headspace birthed by Mt. Pleasant (five of them are natives to the area,
after all), but more focused than ever. Rumor has it, Anticon was the only
label that Matt, Bret, Danny, Seth, Jeremiah, Erica and Jamie could all agree
on.
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01. Noni's Field ( 4:36)
02. Italo ( 3:41)
03. Northern Lights ( 3:49)
04. The River ( 4:43)
05. Cafetorium ( 4:05)
06. Sleeping Torpor ( 5:29)
07. All The First Pages ( 5:17)
08. John J. Audubon ( 3:50)
09. Bells ( 4:44)
10. Tower Of Babel ( 4:08)
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