And the Surrounding Mountains
- 艺人
- Radar Bros.
- 语种
- 英语
- 厂牌
- Merge
- 发行时间
- 2002年05月07日
- 专辑类别
- 录音室专辑
专辑介绍
by Christina Saraceno
On the Radar Bros.' third release, And the Surrounding Mountains, the Los Angeles trio -- Jim Putnam (vocals/guitar), Steve Goodfriend (drums), and Senon Gaius Williams (bass) -- retains the guitar-strummed slow dirges that earned the band a slowcore tag. But And the Surrounding Mountains is a stunning collection of songs that build on that slowcore reputation literally. Keyboards, electric guitar, and vocals are layered throughout as each song escalates to a peak and a final denouement. Nowhere is this better realized than on &Rock of the Lake,& where a singsong acoustic guitar strum builds into vocal harmonies and spooky synth wind noises until Putnam sings, &Out in the lake of all truth/Rise to the surface you hunter you killer you fool.& It doesn't stop there; the song continues to escalate as an electric guitar punctuates the melody and Putnam's normally serene vocals take on a slight urgent tone as he sings, &Just keep moving on/The high water's coming on/In this water they will carry me to you.& It's around this point in the record you might realize something horribly, horribly wrong has gone down at the &surrounding mountains& among the family members who are name-checked in song titles: &You and the Father,& &Uncles,& &Mothers,& and the utterly eerie &Sisters.& On that track, the piano and percussive rhythm are layered with a guitar, light backing vocals, and trumpet when Putnam informs, &They been missing for a week/From here the weapon looks clean/Too bad the older sisters are taking it home.& And appropriately enough, &Still Evil& begins with a backwards synth vocal that sounds otherworldly before Putnam counts off and an acoustic twangy strum leads to piano and an electric guitar before he sings the chorus: &You are still evil/In my sword you'll be caught.& Never has anything so lovely been so frightening.
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