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...around it (perhaps a reference to the track “My Lady’s House”) and an image of Princess Diana with Prince Charles (perhaps calling attention to the theme of “woman king” and the general somber mood of the EP...
Following as the latest link in the pattern of Album, EP, Album, EP, this six-song record is bold and refreshingly energetic. With startling lines like “We were born to fuck each other one way or another,” Woman King clearly pushes the limits of Beam’s established (if that word can be used to describe a career of under three years) raspy and understated style. The distorted guitar in “Evening on the Ground” and the slick bass line of “Freedom Hangs Like Heaven?...
Elegantly shaped by producer, Brian Deck, the layered instrumentation is memorable and brilliantly nuanced. With elements like the percussive stick-click backing to “Woman King” and the piano break in “My Lady’s House”, the EP evokes a sense of organic composition so rarely found in this age of overproduction and electronic precision. Empty space is masterfully balanced with patches of soulful melody and percussive touch. The march-like dulcimer tones in “Jezebel” and the down-home fiddle playing...
...band called the Decemberists, named after the group of Russian insurgents who unsuccessfully tried to stage a coup against Tsar Nicholas I in 1825. That brand of exotic, obscure, and only-half-serious historical reference has come to define the work of the band, from their 2002 Five Songs EP (which, in trademark cheeky Decemberists fashion, was comprised of six songs), through their two breakthrough LPs, Castaways and Cutouts and Her Majesty the Decemberists, both released in 2003, and into their most recent release, 2004’s single-song 20-minute epic of an EP, The Tain...
...decade ago Beck played a song called “Mountain Dew Rock”, and despite making some spastic music in the past, only with this EP has he achieved something truly worthy of the moniker. Neon-green-tinted and jitter-inducing, the EP is like that oft-maligned beverage: the buzz fades quickly, but it may give you enough of a jolt to finally defeat Bowser --- or your Sea Change doldrums...