Dan Barrett is a genius, it's just a shame that Deathconsciousness entered the top 1500 and so Silver had to change his nom. Anyways, vote to Giles Corey. _________________
Haven't heard Out of Focus yet, can't vote, but will talk about Giles Corey anyways.
Have A Nice Life is good but this is a masterpiece. I think it works so completely because it isn't just a lonely depressing album. It is kind of surreal and complex in a way. It is about getting close enough to death to taste it and blur reality but never quite going the whole way. It's about peeking in. This album feels like being all alone, standing in the midst of the vast universe, but feeling everything. Empty Churches is a fucking glorious anthem of "you're not alone". Ghosts, god, the universe, other people, your thoughts...this album is all about how not alone you are. I don't know...in this album of death and depression, all I see at every turn is life. And that's just beautiful. In the more human element of the album, you see a conflict between misanthropy, selfishness, self-deprecation, isolation, and devotion, love, beauty, care...Spectral Bride makes it obvious he still has things he cares about in this world. Even if he is racked with depression. I don't know, I find it oddly captivating at how a record so clearly enamored with death and so so immensely depressed betrays itself with a sort of life-affirmingness. A lot of these tracks end like anthems, like explosions. This album, like all the great "depressing" albums (I Could Live in Hope by Low comes to mind), comes across more as an album searching for hope, beauty, love and finding it. I'm Going to Do It could be a lullaby and hell, I listen to it like one. There's a lot going on in this album but I'm not going to try to pick it all apart like some academic. It is just pulsing with life, death, human nature, gosh...how I love it.
Out Of Focus was a solid album. I tried to listen to GC yesterday but couldn't make it farther than the third song. Sorry Brandon, maybe it's a mood thing, but I'm voting for OOF.
I'm voting Giles Corey, even though I don't feel raving love for this record. I don't really dig the atmosphere/champion of despair/religious undertone on the whole - but the more 'classic', folkier songs are very good and this is where it happens for me on this record. Let's say this is a 70, aka 'good'.
So, no love for Corey, but on the other hand only mild interest in Out of Focus. I'll join drako and say it's solid - well done, not disagreeable, it listens more easiley than GC. But alas for me, Out of Order work in a genre (proggish jazz-rock) I have very little interest in to begin with, and while I think it's a good proggish jazz-rock album, it's no Soft Machine, by which I mean they don't have in them to transcend my original indifference for the genre. I just can't be moved. I'd rate it 60.
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