| Craig, Ian William / Slow Vessels |
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| Album: | Slow Vessels | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Craig, Ian William | Added: | Jul 2017 | |
| Label: | Fatcat Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2017-07-12 | Pull Date: | 2017-09-12 | Charts: | Classical/Experimental |
| Week Ending: | Sep 3 | Aug 20 | Aug 13 | Aug 6 | Jul 23 | Jul 16 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Sep 02, 2017: | Narnia A Single Hope | 4. | Aug 05, 2017: | Narnia Contain, Purpose (Is No Country) | |
| 2. | Aug 19, 2017: | Narnia Purpose (Is No Country), A Single Hope | 5. | Jul 22, 2017: | Narnia Contain, Purpose (Is No Country) | |
| 3. | Aug 12, 2017: | Narnia Contain, Purpose (Is No Country) | 6. | Jul 22, 2017: | Music Casserole Contain |
| Album Review |
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| DJ Away Reviewed 2017-07-10 | ||
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Pared down, lo-fi renditions of six songs from classical vocalist and tape experimentalist Craig’s epic 2016 album Centres, featuring acoustic guitar, piano, and Craig’s angelic tenor voice. Extremely minimal, deeply solitary stuff—you can feel the empty space, the dust and cobwebs of the tape hiss. Desolate, exquisite, dramatic, graceful, and palpably romantic. This mini-album is a treasure. I might prefer these versions over the originals. No FCCs detected. Favorites: 1, 3, 4, 5. 1. *(4:00)—Grainy acoustic guitar strumming. Minimal keyboard pulses. Overflowing tenderness. 2. (5:53)—Slow, woozy piano. Fades into staticky arctic drone. 3. *(6:06)—Extremely slow, each guitar note and syllable held almost to the length of a drone. Craig ventures way up into his falsetto range for long stretches. 4. *(2:43)—Mid-tempo, the closest thing to a conventional folk song. If you like Sibylle Baier or Angel Olsen, you’ll swoon over this. 5. *(8:02)—Slow piano chords buried under static. Sounds like R&B from the end of the world. 6. (4:04)—Relatively clean sound at the beginning. Minimal guitar. Turns into a frosty soundscape in the second half. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Arrive, Arrive | 4. | Purpose (Is No Country) | |||
| 2. | The Nearness | 5. | Contain | |||
| 3. | A Single Hope | 6. | Set To Lapse |