Voices And Organs / Orphanage
Album: Orphanage   Collection:General
Artist:Voices And Organs   Added:Aug 2006
Label:Western Vinyl  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2006-08-27 Pull Date: 2006-10-29
Week Ending: Oct 29 Oct 22 Oct 15 Sep 24 Sep 17 Sep 10 Sep 3
Airplays: 1 1 3 3 1 1 3

Recent Airplay
1. Oct 10, 2009: Music Casserole
As We Grew Young
4. Oct 12, 2006: Finneman's Market
Boychild
2. Oct 24, 2006: Lick my moody guitar show
Any Day Now
5. Oct 10, 2006: lick my moody guitar show
Nestlings
3. Oct 19, 2006: Finneman's Market
Through The City, Through The Lights
6. Oct 10, 2006: What's in the Ice Box?
Idle Words On Empty Pages #2

Album Review
Rob
Reviewed 2006-08-22
Wet, spooky lo-fi indie pop. Almost drone. Muttered, delicate vocals stay low in the mix under brooding instrumentation and softly crunching, urban sounding loops. If Ester Drang somehow awoke bleary-eyed in a Dickens novel, this is probably how it would sound. Or something. The music is a little to the left of blurry chamber pop, and throughout is very low-energy and pretty, with rich mixed instrumentation. Brings to mind the movie Eraserhead. See also Múm, The Album Leaf

FCC Clean. Picks: 1-2, 4, 7, 9, 10, 12, 17


Note: most songs run together, with cold starts/stops throughout.

**1. 1:09 Great, though short, fuzzy melodic loop.
*2. 5:10 Low energy. Lazy piano intro, dissonant factory sounds under soft melody. Drooping vox. Shifts to swirly noise at 4:27.
3. 1:45 Fuzzy muttered song.
*4. 4:28 Hopeful/sad teeter a la Pink Floyd's "Goodbye Blue Sky". Wind sounds at 1:57, then transition to very low energy lo-fi piano and reeds.
5. 3:43 Great screechy intro into lo-fi piano dirge. Nice build with scratchy sound clips. Wandering vox.
6. 1:37 Plucked guitar; indie singer/songwriter ditty
*7. 3:38 Rubbing and crackling sounds under gently drifting melody. Slow transition to bubbly sounds by end
8. 3:21 Blurry, with abrupt transitions and echoey delay.
*9. 4:29 Slow, unique distorted horn (??) intro, then electronic drum ticking under reversed, bent instrumentation and very soft vox. Neat sound.
**10. 4:01 Dreamy, spooky intro and bouncy, sticky melody with simple, hollow percussion.
11. 5:21 Very low energy; slowly drifting and droning sounds.
**12. 4:40 Hollow, jazzy guitar. Childish and sunny.
13. 1:12 Industrial and urban crowd sound loops.
14. 0:54 Drone filler.
15. 2:23 Dripping reversed melodic loops and sounds
16. 2:32 Mashed-up drones and sound clips. Similar to 11. Noisy machine noise at end.
*17. 3:20 Lazy back porch melody with la dee da vox.
18. 2:24 Mournful, melodic anthem closer. Switches to soft drone 1/2 way through. Closes with chattering noise.

Track Listing
1. Melodikka (Orphanage Intro)   10. As We Grew Young
2. Any Day Now   11. Sundays
3. Trees Are Bending Shades To Shapes   12. Boychild
4. Staircase, Attic And Out The Window   13. Screamer
5. Reaching For Trees In Dreams   14. Singer
6. Idle Words On Empty Pages #1   15. Back And Forth
7. Ghostwriting   16. Polyphony Of Banality
8. Nestlings   17. Idle Words On Empty Pages #2
9. Through The City, Through The Lights   18. Orphans