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▓▒▓ ███▀ ben davis - the hushed patterns of relief ▀███
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GENRE...........: Indie
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▀██████ RELEASE DATE ...: juil.-25-2003 ██████▀
▀█▓██▓ STORE DATE .....: 000-00-2001 ▓████▀
▀███ ARTiST .........: ben davis ███▀
▓█▌ LABEL ..........: Lovitt Records ▐█▓
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▓██ BiTRATE ........: 192kbps / 44,1kHz / Full Stereo ██▓
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[01] Finally I Stand [04:02]
[02] What Drifting Will Do [02:46]
[03] Black and White Parade [04:53]
[04] Poised and Determined [03:18]
[05] Misdirection [04:01]
[06] Work of Many [03:42]
[07] Conclude this Movement [04:29]
[08] Coats Need Rest Too [02:54]
[09] Your Terms Are Now Mine [04:05]
[10] Wrestling Won't Help [04:17]
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[38:27]
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When one listens to an album called "The Hushed
Patterns of Relief", one would normally expect
hushed patterns. Of relief.
To be perfectly honest, I don't know what
"hushed patterns of relief" are, exactly, so
it's very possible that this album is indeed
full of them. My first guess, however, would be
that they're very quiet songs, expressing
discovery, revelation and relief.
And I'd be wrong.
The Hushed Patterns of Relief succeeds exactly
where it wants to, and no further. It doesn't
surpass its own expectations, nor does it
reinvent the wheel. What Ben Davis does is
squeeze out ten songs that inhabit that pensive
place that comes after the rainy Sunday
afternoon but before the Tuesday dance number.
It's a Monday album, a stormy album, an album
that's not entertaining to overhear, but is
rewarding when listened to. It's rough, whiny,
and not very pretty. But it's honest.
Thank-you, Ben Davis, for being honest.
It's been said that a new musical genre is
invading North America and the UK, to much
acclaim. Truth be told, the sound's an old one,
having been applied by everyone from Bob Dylan
to Lou Reed. "Electric Folk" is
Big-with-a-capital-B, and artists from Badly
Drawn Boy to Beth Orton to David Gray are
rising to prominence with their delicious
combination of acoustic guitar tendencies and,
well, electricity. Many people are acting as if
this is a new thing, this quiet blend of softie
rock and nontraditional folk. Many people must
not have heard "The Sound of Silence".
The Hushed Patterns of Relief isn't "Electric
Folk". It is crunchy and dark, without smoothed
edges. Folk Metal.
I've read in a few places that Ben Davis sounds
like the aforementioned Elliott Smith. I
suppose he does, if you squint (or find some
way to make your ears squint). He lacks Smith's
whispered sweetness, however, opting instead
for a caustic sneer. Singing in a style
reminiscent of Destroyer's Daniel Bejar, Ben
sings of expended effort and rising need. His
voice rises and falls, jerking out at
surprising times, refusing to sacrifice the
emotion of the moment for the sake of melodic
smoothness. His noisy, punkish roots (as a
member of Sleepytime Trio and Milemarker) are
in full evidence, from the droning Sonic Youth
(lite) guitars of "Coats Need Rest Too", to the
biting bassline of "Work of Many". Even Davis'
quieter songs, like "Misdirection" and "Finally
I Stand" possess an entirely angular sound, and
Davis, while fond of his piano, lends it no
grace or pop bounce - the notes are all brash,
ugly. Throughout the album, the drums - while
slow - are positively violent.
What Davis is singing matches these sounds,
however. "You'll never say what I want to
hear/You wrestle/You wrestle yourself again/And
I wrestle/I wrestle to stay awake," he murmurs
on "Wrestling Won't Help". Like the Red House
Painters, Davis embraces the bitter taste of
his thoughts, letting that pain impact his
songs. For what's billed as a quiet solo album,
most of the album's tracks are surprisingly
loud, bolstered by rawk guitars, lap steel, and
a cello. This isn't the cello of Damon Gough's
"The Shining", mind you -- it grates and
churns, joining the angst and ache of its
counterparts.
The Red House Painters are indeed the closest
thing to what Davis has assembled here. Just as
Mark Kozelek's songs feel like Nick Drake
without sounding like Nick Drake, this record
captures the intent of a soft,
singer-songwriter recording, but instead lets
the content push it down another path, to
gritty guitars and stinging piano. The
fierceness of Davis' resolve however, his lack
of self-consciousness or smarmy irony, allows
him to succeed, rejecting Electric Folk while
still retaining a fraternity in spirit.
The Hushed Patterns of Relief is not hushed,
but somewhere at its core is the pattern that
Elliott Smith and Damien Jurado have both
followed. Ben Davis' quiet songs are noisy, and
they're ugly, but their beauty lies underneath
that, and those depths are definitely worth
exploring.
(from tangmonkey.com)
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