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| kill your mother / rape your dog, monty, films, cast away, photographs, pics, erin patrice bennett, thief, club, kill your mother, city guide, female comics, singapore, politics, contests, comments, phespirit, london, obscene, | Welcome/Nowhere has the distinction singers of being the debut release on producer and Microphones maestro Phil Elverum's new label, P.W. Elverum & Sun. It is downright pretty even as an object, a limited edition with stark covers hand-screened on the backs of cast-off thrift store LP covers singers by Elverum himself. I bet it's worth singers a hundred bucks on eBay two years from now. With stumbling waves of acoustic guitar and a sparse, subtle production (there is a lot of multi-tracked humming going on in the background) Welcome/Nowhere is one of those grow-on-you records that, as of this writing, is still growing on me. I know I like it a ton but am not sure I love it as much as Orange's first work with Elverum, The Ghost in the Eyes with Trees in the Ground Outside the Window (April 2004, States Rights/ Slender Means). On the phone with Orange while he's touring the Midwest, I ask whether this record is a concept album or not, and he replies, "I don't really know what a concept record is! |
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| But, as is typically the case with folks who're afraid of pretension, he's the opposite. In fact, with his band Thanksgiving, Orange is capable of making mopey, indie folk-pop that's downright fucking transcendent. Before I tell you how great he is, I cast away have to tell you that he uses steel drums on the last song of cast away his October cast away 2004 release, Welcome/Nowhere. Of all the musical sins a folk-rocker can commit, the use of steel drums should carry one of the more severe penalties. Also, this music is not everyone's cup of tea: the songs are kind of long and not structured in verse-chorus-verse; it's folky, but often there're fucked up noises in the background. And he's got a deep yet mildly quavery voice that's reminiscent of Bill Callahan from Smog. Those caveats aside, Thanksgiving is startlingly beautiful, sit-on-your-ass-and-listen music. It's vaguely electronic, visionary acoustic pop informed by the marching-band-from-slumberland sound of Neutral Milk Hotel; the laptop folk of Greg Davis; the jazzy, lush Brazilian folk of Antonio Carlos Jobim; the recombinant hillbilly-isms of Will Oldham and his cult; and the poetic and strange Pacific Northwest singer-songwriter Karl Blau. |
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