Oak Island

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共10首歌曲

艺人: Nightlands
语种: 英语
厂牌: Secretly Canadian
发行时间: 2013年01月22日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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Back in 2010, the War on Drugs‘ Dave Hartley released his debut LP as Nightlands, Forget the Mantra. His hushed, sweeping chamber pop often sounded as if someone had held up a microphone to a campfire; on this first single from his sophomore effort, Oak Island, the vibe isn’t so much intimate as it is distant, with Hartley’s vocals cloaked in static as other voices join in harmonizing with him over a bed of twinkling guitar and dusty drum machine rhythms. Oak Island is out January 22 via Secretly Canadian.

The son of a genetic engineer, Dave Hartley has eschewed his father’s profession but decidedly inherited his analytical proclivities and love of “the lab.” As Nightlands, Hartley is a scientist trying to create and understand art through analytical process. Here, with sophomore album Oak Island, new questions are explored: what happens when the human voice is layered exponentially? Is the sum more man, or more melancholy machine? In seeking these answers, Nightlands takes us on a spirit quest through lush forests down into The Uncanny Valley. Each distorted, silver-voiced melody is wrapped in the sounds of 70s AM gold – plucked acoustic guitars, trumpets, dulcimers and hand percussion. In using these pop touchstones, the songs become something close to memories, the faded feelings that tide in and out of you when conjuring the past. To this end, virtually every chord played on Oak Island is a major-7th, the most nostalgic harmonic grouping. Seals & Croft produced by mid-70s beetle-voiced Brian Eno. Crosby, HAL and Nash.

Beneath the analytics and technical experimentation lie 10 pop songs about sadness and love; this silvery robot has learned what it means to be human and paid a great cost. The elegant, lunar bossa-nova of album standout “So Far So Long,” with its distant trumpeted satellite signals, offers a slow, confident lilting and wilting, as Hartley considers traversing space and time.

Oak Island

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