Little Hours
- 艺人
- Spokane
- 语种
- 英语
- 厂牌
- Jagjaguwar
- 发行时间
- 2007年08月07日
- 专辑类别
- 录音室专辑
专辑介绍
by Stewart Mason
Little Hours is Spokane's first album since 2004's Measurement, but the trio hasn't been idle in the intervening years: Little Hours was recorded in an 1800 square foot Federal-style house near Richmond, VA that was handbuilt by singer, songwriter, and all-around leader Rick Alverson, bassist Robert Donne, and singer and percussionist Courtney Bowles over the course of a full year. One must assume that all that hard work tired out the trio; even by the minimalist standards of Spokane's previous records, Little Hours is an album-length experiment in how slow, how quiet, and how still a song can be and still be considered pop music. The centerpiece instrumental, "Building," consisting of little more than Alverson's ponderous piano chords and a solo cello, is indicative of Alverson's aesthetic, but even at its most heated, a pervasive stillness hangs over Little Hours, a sense of torpor that '90s slowcore bands like Low or Codeine could only dream of. It isn't melancholy, quite: for all the implied sadness in Bowles' childlike voice and Alverson's quickly sketched, amorphous lyrics, Little Hours isn't a wallow. It's mood music of a very specific sort, an album that evokes the languid heat of a still midsummer night, when the slightest movement brings beads of sweat. If a background soundtrack of distant frogs and cicadas is unavailable naturally, invest in a sound effects disc to play discreetly nearby to achieve the full effect. (Note: the first pressing of Little Hours was released in a combination LP-plus-CD package, with both formats contained in one lovely, lavish package.)
最新简评（共12条）
- @sikkim(一個人的戰爭)：.
- @孑然(你不要吃我，我唱好听的歌...)：好像在说。
- @迈洛：这么静美的专哦。。。时间都不忍心再流动了。。
- @Nvom(他周身的一切皆美。)：喜欢唱封
- @pansyfairy(记忆永不停播)：柔美至极
- @mecca：“是秋入闱复落，邑邑不得志，颇思郎言，遂取前所指示者强读之， 未至终篇，昏昏欲睡，心惶惑无以自主。” ——清·蒲松龄《聊斋志异·贾奉雉》 —— SOLO后动物性倦怠BGM 再舒心不过
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