New Dark Captain Light Captain Songs, Yeah!
December 15th 2006 06:28
PM has posted about DCLC a couple of times now, and with each time it happens I find myself falling for a different part of their music. Today, they have uploaded 4 new songs to their MySpace, so you can imagine what difficulty I'm having getting anything done.
The alarming thing about these new songs is just how much DCLC have managed to cram in there. Seconds fly past, adorned with washes of restrained electronica, plonks of piano and, delightfully, some beautiful clarinet playing on 'Everybody's Opening Doors'. As the cleverly woven vocal lines seep charmingly about superheroes licking your doorstep, it is impossible not to be swept along into the dark, Fennesz-ian aesthetic. As encompassing as they are brainy, DCLC are now crafting immersive experiences as well as wonderful melodies.
The ambient desolation of 'Mid-Session Interval' is also rather beguiling, a song for swimming if ever there was one, raising barely above a whisper at any given moment. This is all it needs to be, and DCLC should be saluted for acknowledging that. They are a truly musical beast, capable of devastating sleight of hearing - there is an endlessly involving series of different timbres and textures that creep in through the back door then sneakily start making a crackling fry-up, such is the deft touch with their tools. Someone sign them up already so everyone can hear this weird and great music.
The alarming thing about these new songs is just how much DCLC have managed to cram in there. Seconds fly past, adorned with washes of restrained electronica, plonks of piano and, delightfully, some beautiful clarinet playing on 'Everybody's Opening Doors'. As the cleverly woven vocal lines seep charmingly about superheroes licking your doorstep, it is impossible not to be swept along into the dark, Fennesz-ian aesthetic. As encompassing as they are brainy, DCLC are now crafting immersive experiences as well as wonderful melodies.
The ambient desolation of 'Mid-Session Interval' is also rather beguiling, a song for swimming if ever there was one, raising barely above a whisper at any given moment. This is all it needs to be, and DCLC should be saluted for acknowledging that. They are a truly musical beast, capable of devastating sleight of hearing - there is an endlessly involving series of different timbres and textures that creep in through the back door then sneakily start making a crackling fry-up, such is the deft touch with their tools. Someone sign them up already so everyone can hear this weird and great music.
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