- Audio CD (1 Feb 2010)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: CD
- Label: One Four Seven Records Ltd
- ASIN: B002YVYI24
- Other Editions: MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 333,107 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
Jubilee Offer: Patriot Classics for £2.50 |
Product details |
Track Listings
| 1. Lazarus |
| 2. In Chemicals |
| 3. Tracers |
| 4. Paranoid Clusters |
| 5. Eclipse |
| 6. Tobias Grey |
| 7. Warning |
| 8. Drift |
| 9. Coroner, The |
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organise and find favourite items. |
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This album came about as a kind of requiem for the grandparents of (Wintersleep's) Paul & Michael Murphy. It's so far removed from Wintersleep's sound it would be unrecognisable if it weren't for The Voice. The whole thing comes together really well and unlike some of Wintersleep's releases operates comfortably as a whole - it's not overlong or bloated nor does its scope defy its reach. It's soft and anguished and real and resonates with the warmth that only something as grounded as a gift for a loved one could be.
There's a campfire/cabin in the woods feel that fans of Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, Tunng, Band of Horses (minus the pomp) and all those other folk/country/blues/Twilight soundtrack bands, but even retains the depth of the likes of Iron & wine thanks to the subject matter.
Acoustic guitar, banjo, violin, muted drums and washing samples come together in various combinations and the triumph of the album "The Warning" is the best thing, aside from "Weighty Ghost and "Dead Letter", that the Murphy's have produced. It's as confessional and searching as their best work, the clincher being the soaring line - "I remember our bodies, when we were just twenty, tangled in the night, we f**ked it up right, didn't we?"
This is an edited version of how they present the work themselves
"These are my grandparents. They passed away two years ago and left me pieces of songs in a series of dreams, not Coleridge-esque opium dreams though unfortunately, just regular dreams. Kinda sad dreams. This is for them.
We had a little too much time on our hands. Some scotch too. We wanted to make a present for mom. She'd had a tough year. With little preparation (a laptop, no microphones, click tracks, or even tuners come to think of it), we recorded about 12 ideas and we went our separate ways.
Eight months later we found a free weekend in Halifax and tried the same thing, reworking a cluster of songs from the first session and adding four extra songs to the workload. We used the same laptop, but this time we rented actual, real microphones and we used click tracks for a few songs and tuners for the most
part. We think. Maybe a little less scotch this time around.
Some of the songs turned out to be fuller and more mature after a second take, better than expected. Other songs maybe didn't quite hit the mark. But the recording as a whole, the half-finished, early conception somewhat fragmented material, seems to do something quite nice.
Hope you like it."
There's a campfire/cabin in the woods feel that fans of Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, Tunng, Band of Horses (minus the pomp) and all those other folk/country/blues/Twilight soundtrack bands, but even retains the depth of the likes of Iron & wine thanks to the subject matter.
Acoustic guitar, banjo, violin, muted drums and washing samples come together in various combinations and the triumph of the album "The Warning" is the best thing, aside from "Weighty Ghost and "Dead Letter", that the Murphy's have produced. It's as confessional and searching as their best work, the clincher being the soaring line - "I remember our bodies, when we were just twenty, tangled in the night, we f**ked it up right, didn't we?"
This is an edited version of how they present the work themselves
"These are my grandparents. They passed away two years ago and left me pieces of songs in a series of dreams, not Coleridge-esque opium dreams though unfortunately, just regular dreams. Kinda sad dreams. This is for them.
We had a little too much time on our hands. Some scotch too. We wanted to make a present for mom. She'd had a tough year. With little preparation (a laptop, no microphones, click tracks, or even tuners come to think of it), we recorded about 12 ideas and we went our separate ways.
Eight months later we found a free weekend in Halifax and tried the same thing, reworking a cluster of songs from the first session and adding four extra songs to the workload. We used the same laptop, but this time we rented actual, real microphones and we used click tracks for a few songs and tuners for the most
part. We think. Maybe a little less scotch this time around.
Some of the songs turned out to be fuller and more mature after a second take, better than expected. Other songs maybe didn't quite hit the mark. But the recording as a whole, the half-finished, early conception somewhat fragmented material, seems to do something quite nice.
Hope you like it."
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
