Witmer, Denison / River Bends...And Flows I, Th
Album: | River Bends...And Flows I, Th | Collection: | General | |
Artist: | Witmer, Denison | Added: | Aug 2004 | |
Label: | Tooth and Nail Records |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2005-02-27 | Pull Date: | 2005-05-01 |
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Week Ending: | Mar 27 | Mar 6 |
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Airplays: | 1 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
1. | Nov 07, 2006: | What's in the Ice Box?
You Could Be Anything |
4. | Mar 02, 2005: | The Panoply
Looking for You |
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2. | Mar 10, 2006: | The Ground State
Looking for You |
5. | Mar 01, 2005: | The Devil's Oligarchy
22 |
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3. | Mar 22, 2005: | The Devil's Collective
Looking for You |
6. | Feb 28, 2005: | the ox and the hammer show
Looking for You |
Album Review
Mor
Reviewed 2005-02-23
Reviewed 2005-02-23
The River Bends… And Flows into the Sea
Outstanding mellow rock, country-tinged, folky. Early Wilco/Tweedy, Sufjan Stevens, Red House Painters, Low. Philadelphia’s Witmer Denison steps up from Sing/Songwriter to full band sound (released as “The River Bends”). And it sounds fantastic. Beautiful melodies, guitars, lap steel, and droney keyboards, understated percussion, no-frails vox, slightly nasal but nice. Lots of songs about seasons, but I guess that’s how it is in the northeast. Lyrics, Romantic but realistic and unassuming.
Play every single track, but especially track 1. Start with: 1, 11, 3, 7, 9, 6. No FCC’s.
1. *** Heartbreaking, beautiful tune, slight distortion, perfect, so perfect. ***
2. Mid tempo guitar pick, starts rocking, you have to sway in the chorus.
3. * This is so Mark Kozelek… love and the great outdoors. Acoustic strum throughout, wonderful. *
4. Quiet picking, very mellow, classic ballad about Philadelphia(!)
5. Mid tempo, swinging.
6. * Dark, sadder feeling. 22 and don’t know what to do. *
7. * Gentle, sparse picking, keyboards drone, calm yet strained vox (it will make sense if you listen). Briefly turns electric, louder *
8. Steel guitar, starts sparse and slow, but picks up with calm strumming on the electric.
9. * Similarly, lap steel and quiet verses, quite louder on the chorus, great track. *
10. Minimal piano ballad, guitars pick it up, gloomy.
11. ** Build to Spill power ballad. Starts quiet, acoustic, but power chords join in the pick the beautiful tune, repeat and repeat and repeat… **
Outstanding mellow rock, country-tinged, folky. Early Wilco/Tweedy, Sufjan Stevens, Red House Painters, Low. Philadelphia’s Witmer Denison steps up from Sing/Songwriter to full band sound (released as “The River Bends”). And it sounds fantastic. Beautiful melodies, guitars, lap steel, and droney keyboards, understated percussion, no-frails vox, slightly nasal but nice. Lots of songs about seasons, but I guess that’s how it is in the northeast. Lyrics, Romantic but realistic and unassuming.
Play every single track, but especially track 1. Start with: 1, 11, 3, 7, 9, 6. No FCC’s.
1. *** Heartbreaking, beautiful tune, slight distortion, perfect, so perfect. ***
2. Mid tempo guitar pick, starts rocking, you have to sway in the chorus.
3. * This is so Mark Kozelek… love and the great outdoors. Acoustic strum throughout, wonderful. *
4. Quiet picking, very mellow, classic ballad about Philadelphia(!)
5. Mid tempo, swinging.
6. * Dark, sadder feeling. 22 and don’t know what to do. *
7. * Gentle, sparse picking, keyboards drone, calm yet strained vox (it will make sense if you listen). Briefly turns electric, louder *
8. Steel guitar, starts sparse and slow, but picks up with calm strumming on the electric.
9. * Similarly, lap steel and quiet verses, quite louder on the chorus, great track. *
10. Minimal piano ballad, guitars pick it up, gloomy.
11. ** Build to Spill power ballad. Starts quiet, acoustic, but power chords join in the pick the beautiful tune, repeat and repeat and repeat… **
Track Listing
1. | Looking for You | 6. | 22 | |||
2. | Lawyers and White Paper | 7. | I Love You April | |||
3. | Are You Lonely? | 8. | Days Repeating | |||
4. | Chestnut Street | 9. | It Takes Time | |||
5. | All the Days and Nights | 10. | Better or Worse | |||
11. | You Could Be Anything |