Distant Reader / Place of Words Now Gone
Album: | Place of Words Now Gone | Collection: | A-File | |
Artist: | Distant Reader | Added: | Nov 2024 | |
Label: | Lily Tapes & Discs |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2024-12-17 | Pull Date: | 2025-03-18 |
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Week Ending: | Feb 2 | Jan 26 | Jan 5 | Dec 29 |
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Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
1. | Feb 01, 2025: | Buford J. Sharkley Presents: As Told to Hervey Okkles
Emergency |
4. | Jan 04, 2025: | Music Casserole
Landscape With No Near End |
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2. | Jan 25, 2025: | Music Casserole
Porch Light |
5. | Dec 28, 2024: | Music Casserole
Emergency |
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3. | Jan 20, 2025: | Virtually Happy
Porch Light |
Album Review
HYPRK
Reviewed 2024-11-15
Reviewed 2024-11-15
Ambient folk / literary slowcore with a strong narrative voice. Written during a cross-country train trip, recorded in rural Texas, and produced/engineered by Andrew Weathers. Most songs have long instrumental intros and outros which lends a really nice expansiveness to the project. Songs are poetically sincere and atmospherically ace. Lyrics are the centerpiece and they construct a storyline of a distant reality where a community is slowly and mysteriously curtained in silence. The narrator ruminates on the void left behind in the disappearances and what takes the "place of words now gone." Fun fact: Distant Reader is the alter ego of KZSU's DJ Away, so show some support!
RIYL: Bedhead, Sun Kil Moon, SUSS, Barn Owl, Codeine, The Weather Station
FCC Clean
Try: 1, 2, 6
*1. (6:24) Very quiet intro (20 sec) leads into some nice slides and strums. Great dynamics. Lyrics are emergency-themed, and there's a really nice anxious flutter in this one
*2. (3:46) Extended guitar intro. Powerful vocals and swells of noise meet in an epic crescendo
3. (5:52) Guitar-forward. Fluttering, moody vocals, lots of lap steel. Really epic drone swirls at the 4 min mark
4. (4:50) Lonesome. Seagulls squawking, warm guitar, a bit of saxophone. Really nice
5. (6:50) Opens with the scratchy sound of scissors on paper, blossoms into heartfelt folk with keyboard elements
*6. (4:21) Slow lilty guitar melody. Gentle vocals, tasteful delay effects, a bit of saxophone
7. (5:21) Somber with plucky metallic strings, buzzy synth and sparse rattling percussion
RIYL: Bedhead, Sun Kil Moon, SUSS, Barn Owl, Codeine, The Weather Station
FCC Clean
Try: 1, 2, 6
*1. (6:24) Very quiet intro (20 sec) leads into some nice slides and strums. Great dynamics. Lyrics are emergency-themed, and there's a really nice anxious flutter in this one
*2. (3:46) Extended guitar intro. Powerful vocals and swells of noise meet in an epic crescendo
3. (5:52) Guitar-forward. Fluttering, moody vocals, lots of lap steel. Really epic drone swirls at the 4 min mark
4. (4:50) Lonesome. Seagulls squawking, warm guitar, a bit of saxophone. Really nice
5. (6:50) Opens with the scratchy sound of scissors on paper, blossoms into heartfelt folk with keyboard elements
*6. (4:21) Slow lilty guitar melody. Gentle vocals, tasteful delay effects, a bit of saxophone
7. (5:21) Somber with plucky metallic strings, buzzy synth and sparse rattling percussion
Track Listing
1. | Emergency (6:24) | 5. | From High Remove (6:50) | |||
2. | Landscape With No Near End (3:46) | 6. | Porch Light (4:21) | |||
3. | Outpost (5:52) | 7. | One Day (5:21) | |||
4. | Ten Houses (4:50) | . |