Phelan, Patrick / Cost
Album: Cost   Collection:General
Artist:Phelan, Patrick   Added:Apr 2006
Label:Jagjaguwar  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2006-07-02 Pull Date: 2006-09-03
Week Ending: Sep 3 Aug 27 Aug 20 Aug 13 Aug 6 Jul 30 Jul 23 Jul 16
Airplays: 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 2

Recent Airplay
1. Oct 10, 2006: lick my moody guitar show
Ruin
4. Aug 26, 2006: What's in the Icebox?
Sails Descending
2. Sep 03, 2006: Multiple Personality Disorder
Then Trust
5. Aug 15, 2006: lick my moody guitar show
Ruin
3. Aug 29, 2006: lift Jesus Higher
Ruin
6. Aug 06, 2006: Multiple Personality Disorder
Sails Descending

Album Review
Murray
Reviewed 2006-07-02
Dark, lush ballads. Velvety male vocals, sometimes half whispered. Gentle yet a bit threatening, like Gravenhurst. Most songs slow, and fade out. Third solo LP from Phelan (from Virginia, previously in Minnow and South). Play with Gravenhurst, Violet Indiana, Pinback, Pink Floyd, Low, Mick Harvey. Compelling, solid album. FCC clean. Start with 2, 4, 11.

1. Expansive, spacey instrumental. Starts with a few seconds of near silence. Slow fade.
==> 2. Lush indie rock. Velvety vocals paired with insistent percussiveness and insistent arpeggios. Starts with a splash of noisy, descending electronics. Very Pinback.
3. Slow, acoustic (mostly) ballad. Very much like Gravenhurst.
==> 4. Dreamy, quiet, beautiful, and somehow scary. Nice violin (from Jonathan Segel, ex Camper Van Beethoven) and subtle synths.
5. Jazzy ballad. Starts with 40 secs of spacey synthetics.
6. Slow, percussionless instrumental. Synthetic strings are a bit mawkish to my ears. Serves as a long intro to the next track.
7. Prog/filmic ballad. Short. Few words that keep repeating. Previous track is a long, instrumental intro. Starts cold with vocals.
8. Dark, Pink-Floydesque ballad. “No, the day just cannot wait to put you back to bed.” A long track that evolves a lot, through a series of moods. Long fade and then some silence.
9. Short instrumental, floaty and drumless... like a denouement to the previous track.
10. Folky, finger-picked acoustic guitar, with soporific vocals and legato synth in the background. Fades in slowly. (Guitar is reminiscent of The Beatles in the song Blackbird.)
==> 11. Folky sad, swaying lullaby. Male-female vocal duet. Starts with echoey slide guitar, later gains full band including drums and synth.

Track Listing
1. In Words   6. In View
2. Favor   7. Settlements
3. Ruin   8. Through The Bedroom Walls
4. Sails Descending   9. We Forgive Our Own
5. Lesser Laws   10. Then Trust
  11. Fall