| Craig, Ian William / Thresholder |
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| Album: | Thresholder | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Craig, Ian William | Added: | Jan 2019 | |
| Label: | Fatcat Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2019-03-01 | Pull Date: | 2019-05-03 |
| Week Ending: | Mar 17 | Mar 10 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Aug 05, 2021: | Stranded at Settembrini's (rebroadcast from Jul 22, 2021) Sfumato | 3. | Mar 12, 2019: | Attitude Adjustment And Therefore The Moonlight | |
| 2. | Jul 22, 2021: | Stranded at Settembrini's Sfumato | 4. | Mar 06, 2019: | Brownian Motion Some Absolute Means |
| Album Review |
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| DJ Away Reviewed 2019-02-07 | ||
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Vancouver visual artist and classically trained tenor who crushes his voice into blinding-bright shards by running it through half-broken tape machines. Eerie, wintry, and magisterial, like spirituals associated with no religion. This is more restrained in intensity and breadth than some of his previous releases; look in the KZSU library for his soul-exploding A Turn of Breath and his ambitious Centres. RIYL old churches, Joan La Barbara, Julianna Barwick, Tim Hecker, Benoît Pioulard, Sarah Davachi. Favorites: 2, 6, 7, 8. No FCCs detected. 1. (4:20)—The tape starts. Windy and dissonant. Minimal. 2. *(5:06)—Tape malfunctions. Slow, grand build. Lots of vocal layering. Loud, glitchy organ reminds me of Fennesz. 3. (2:46)—Scratchy vocal lines cut in and out. Caretaker fans will like this. 4. (4:00)—Noisy, smeary. Vocal loops cut into unrecognizability, like buzzing pulses. 5. (2:00)—Long, unbroken vocal tones in a very big room. 6. *(3:50)–Soft, wobbly synth organ. Mild noise at the edges. Stays calm. Very quiet, lovely ending. 7. *(3:02)—Chilly, warped, sweeping high tones. Very deep vocal base. Haunting. 8. *(3:52)—Faded loop soup, near-silence. Ominous vocal curlicues. Powerfully minimal. 9. (1:12)—Slow, chilly, high-voiced breeze. 10. (4:54)—A little chaotic and random-seeming to start. Crushed drone noise. 11. (2:08)—Soft bleeps, the sound a record makes when the side is over. Deep, misty drone. | ||
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