And He Just Pointed to the Sky...
- 艺人
- Peder
- 语种
- 英语
- 厂牌
- Ubiquity
- 发行时间
- 2007年04月24日
- 专辑类别
- 录音室专辑
专辑介绍
by Marisa Brown
Despite the fact that Peder Pedersen has made his name known through his beat-oriented production work with the Prunes and Pelding, on his first solo effort, And He Just Pointed to the Sky..., he takes a much different approach, focusing more on atmosphere and mood than rhythm. In fact, percussion is hardly used during the album's 13 songs. More frequently Peder sticks with simple, haunting arrangements that rely heavily on the B-3 organ, picked guitars, vibraphone, and harmonized background humming, creating something that sounds like the soundtrack to a 21st century noir film, dark and sultry and eerie. Ubiquity labelmate Shawn Lee adds his instrumental expertise on two tracks ("Ache" and "Klart"), as do vocalists Ane Trolle ("White Lilies"), Dean Bowman ("The Sour"), Joy Morgan (the wonderfully haunting "Nothing," on which she sings, straight out of a Tarantino movie, "Someone strangled me/And now I'm dead for sure"), and the blessed-with-a-sweet-falsetto Nino Moschella ("Would You"), working together to make a consistent, strong record perfect for late summer nights, those few hours when the city is quiet before the next day starts up again. And He Just Pointed to the Sky... can get a little slow at times, plodding along with sparse quarter notes and held chords, but before it becomes too much, before it turns into mere background music, Peder brings in drums and kicks up the tempo, like in "White Lilies," which, as the album's center point, acts as the perfect transition between the dark build-up of the first half and the slow release of the second. Peder really shows his stripes here, revealing that he's a versatile and thoughtful artist with plenty of ideas and talent, and can do as much with subtlety and silence as he can with fast programmed beats. So although And He Just Pointed to the Sky... is certainly a departure for him, it's definitely not a step back.
最新简评（共2条）
- @未知生物：好。
- @陈醒诺：十分风格化。从绝命毒师 S03e05中间插曲摸过来的。 整砖最大感触是真伤感。把这种伤感用电气化的思路一路贯穿到了底。有 trip-hop的暗冷阴郁，也有接近声音实验的缓拍小调音阶，有黑胶杂音和弦乐拨弦，也有人声哼鸣的叠加……整砖像一本记满5年的青年心事笔记，全是残碎片段，拼贴出一本写满伤感的歌曲集。