Word: sonics
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...devices and florid ornamentation as complex scales, arpeggios, trills, gruppetti, and elegantly graduated crescendos. Bartoli is a virtuoso of fioritura. Emerging undetected out of silence, her voice creeps and swells into the warm apex of an exquisitely delivered cresendo—the audience melts under the radiance of her sonic glow...
Sheesh, talk about a worthless album. Not since all those Sonic Youth noise records have I been clobbered over the head with something so disappointingly unlistenable and uninspired. At least the folks behind SY had the decency to release that shit under a different name and label, admitting from the outset that the meager effort they put in wasn’t worth the same respect or attention as their real music. Listening to this Liars drivel you’d think it was a different band playing than the one behind They Threw Us All in a Trench...
...sumptuous blend of bird calls and prehistoric drones which convey a dawning sense of catastrophe. With the surging tornadoes of “Ozean und Brandung” and the metallic calm of “Boreas,” the album depicts an expansive sonic landscape with hidden stormy undercurrents unleashed every so often. For the most part, the album is melodic and melancholy, with heartbreaking lyrical outbursts like “Ein leichtes leises Sauseln...
...more concerned with controlling his chaos on record. In order to achieve the “epic” sound he and Abilities wanted on E and A (as opposed to the late-night pensiveness of past records), they emphasized crescendos and traded, so to speak, verbal length for sonic depth...
...Gone—and that’s saying a lot. Equal parts lilting lullaby and drunken caterwaul, Bows and Arrows sounds like the demented brainchild of a beer-spattered New York hustler with only his inflated sense of self-importance for company. But through each bout of sonic schizophrenia, the Walkmen’s intent and delivery shine clear: each arrow reaches its target with the precision of a Tolkien elf to create gorgeously ethereal, emotionally wringing music...