•October 8, 2008 •
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What Harris seems to comprehend better than most is the power inherent in allowing yourself to be subsumed by shade, becoming lost in the colours rather than definitively outlined. There’s a thrill in letting yourself go – the power and lonely beauty of decay and disappearance (…) There’s a deeply meditative, almost spiritual beauty to these tracks; a melancholy that’s simultaneously strangely hopeful. When the final song croons, “we’ve all gone to sleep”, that could be taken either way – as both a tragic, and wonderful thing. These are songs that recognise the fact that in the shadows, anything is possible – becoming part of something greater, more mysterious, can also be a bit frightening, painful. Like dragging a dead deer up a hill.
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Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
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Tags: ambient, experimental, shoegaze
•October 6, 2008 •
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•September 19, 2008 •
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•September 7, 2008 •
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(…) lyrics about sickness, pain, greed, sociopolitical rancor and loss, delivered in Efrim Menuck’s weepy falsetto with cracked choral accompaniment, vie for prominence amidst the slow builds, three-chord vamps, obstinate and expansive drones that have been SMZ’s trademarks from the start. The difference is that on Horses, a wider range of emotions grace the poetry as new sounds and textures enliven the music. From the opening pizzicato of “God Bless our Dead Marines,” there is a rustic resolve to the playing, the swooped and pleasantly out of tune fiddles punctuating the newly subtle vindication in Efrim’s voice as he declaims, “They put angels in the electric chair.”
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Horses in the Sky
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Tags: experimental, instrumental, post-rock
•August 20, 2008 •
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•August 19, 2008 •
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