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BETHANY DILLON celebrates two milestones this fall; she sings on the sound tracks of two major movies and gets her driver's permit. Dillon, 16, who wrote songs for Dreamer, starring Dakota Fanning, and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, picked up the guitar at 10 and a record contract at 13 when a producer heard a CD she cut at home in Ohio. The Christian singer remains unaffected. "I come home from touring, and my parents are like, 'Hey, Beth, how was it? Can you unload the dishwasher...
...Aesop Rock’s producer), as well as Cage’s long-time collaborator Camu Tao, snaps with aggressive buzzing thuds and lush melodic loops. El-P, who has a hand in more than half of the songs, opens with one of those rare productions where grinding guitar and a low end courtesy of the bassist from Yo La Tengo, actually work under the voice...
Besides his versatile guitar, elegant voice and some muted percussion, the only other sound source on the album is a mournful trumpet...
They closed the set out with an old standard from Hopeland, “Untitled #9—Popplagio (Pop Song).” It begins with a sweet, rolling guitar strain, but eventually collapses into cacophonous entropy. I’m not a big fan of the song, but it reminded me of the problem about the womb—eventually, the placenta breaks, and you’re out on your own. Horrifying...
Racing frantically along like a Nordic horse under the light of Nick Drake’s “Pink Moon,” the opening track, “Slow Moves,” paradoxically features some of the most driving guitar work of the album, pulling the listener into the whispered world of “Veneer” with its repetitive strums and sparkling open chords...