| Angels Of Light / We Are Him |
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| Album: | We Are Him | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Angels Of Light | Added: | Aug 2007 | |
| Label: | Young God Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2007-10-07 | Pull Date: | 2007-12-09 |
| Week Ending: | Dec 9 | Nov 11 | Oct 28 | Oct 21 | Oct 14 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Aug 28, 2015: | Breakaway Bluff Sunflower's Here To Stay | 4. | Jan 30, 2009: | The Pants Down Oval Office Promise Of Water | |
| 2. | Oct 02, 2014: | The Sunset Life Not Here/Not Now | 5. | Dec 06, 2007: | Living Souls Not Here/Not Now | |
| 3. | Jun 02, 2010: | Beatnik Bourgeoisie We Are Him | 6. | Nov 07, 2007: | Brownian Motion Sometimes I Dream I'm Hurting You |
| Album Review |
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| Your Imaginary Friend Reviewed 2007-10-03 | ||
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Unclassifiable creations from Michael Gira’s solo project post-Swans. Though Gira has been instrumental in the “anti-folk” movement by signing and giving a voice to the likes of Devandra Banhardt via his Young God Records label, those sounds don’t entirely dominate his music, though elements do. Instead, this stuff fails to be pigeonholed, even likened to other bands (besides later Swans/Jarboe). Distinct darkness, bent creepiness have always been his forte, however, gone is his trademark subsonic baritone. Instead, when he fills the headphones with pretty joy and light it comes across instead like skipping through a dew soaked meadow filled with wildflowers in the warm morning light only to trip over an eviscerated body hiding in the grass, coming face to face with its dead dark eyes. 1) upbeat feel somehow, plods forward 2) folk element to this dark dirge, nice strings 3) “pretty” elelment always ends up ironic, uplifting guitars and angelic voices subvert 4) FCCs 5) starts dark, interjects some melody, dark Swans (post 1990) feel to this 6) slower, singer-songwriter w/ a very out of character middle, w/ trombone and swingy drums, huh? 7) layers of tones in intro followed by almost swingy song, strange mix 8) slow, somber lilting ballad, dark themed 9) full band bursts, twisted shifts into a near 60’s Bacharrach pop, huh? 10) FCCs 11) triplet waltz, folksy 12) slow triplet, dark near shoegaze alt.country | ||
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