2017-9-3 11:31
麻油女郎
Widowspeak - Expect The Best (2017) [Indie Rock/Shoegaze] [FLAC]
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HOUND presents...
Artist.......: Widowspeak
Album........: Expect The Best
Label........: Captured Tracks
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: CT-266
Source.......: CD (LP)
Rip.date.....: 2017-08-30
Str.date.....: 2017-08-25
Quality......: 822kbps/44.1kHz/2 channels
Url..........: [url]http://www.capturedtracks.com[/url]
track title time
1. The Dream 4:19
2. When I Tried 4:42
3. Dog 3:49
4. Warmer 3:50
5. Good Sport 1:45
6. Let Me 3:43
7. Right On 2:50
8. Expect the Best 3:34
9. Fly on the Wall 7:00
Runtime 35:32
Size 212.65
Release Notes:
Widowspeak remain purveyors of mood. Whether painting an image of a basement
apartment with blinds closed or conjuring the sweeping openness of a desert,
theyÆre an outfit ever preoccupied with the influence of place and the passage
of time on personal experience: the way vivid memories can feel like movies or
dreams.
On their newest album for BrooklynÆs Captured Tracks, Widowspeak use familiar
aesthetics as a narrative device, a purposeful nostalgic backdrop for songs that
ask, ôHow did we get here?ö Sonically, they exist somewhere in the overlap
between somber indie rock, dream pop, slow-core and their own invented genre,
"cowboy grunge." At the heart of the band, there is a palpable duality, a push
and pull between the delicate and the deliberate: the contrast of lead
singer-songwriter Molly HamiltonÆs strikingly beautiful voice and poignant
melodies with the terrestrial reality of being a four-piece rock band. These
songs sound like the dark bars and rock clubs they were imagined for just as
much as the bedrooms where they were written. Expect the Best sees Widowspeak
finding their greatest balance between opposing forces: darkness and light,
quiet and loud, tension and calm.
The album was written while Hamilton was living in Tacoma, Washington after
previous stints in upstate New York and Brooklyn. So much moving around, and
specifically a move back to the place she grew up, was the catalyst for a record
concerned with self-examination and the sense of dread that comes from feeling
adrift (ôDogö). Whether navigating the anxieties of social media and
self-preservation in the digital age (ôExpect the Bestö), struggling to maintain
motivation (ôWhen I Triedö), or critiquing western-centric wanderlust and
aspiration (ôThe Dreamö), the songs here recognize that thereÆs no going back in
time. HamiltonÆs lyrics explore the space between regret and anticipation,
reconciling the desire to dwell with a need to ôexpect the best,ö even as the
best seems unlikely.
ôIn the past IÆve felt compelled to write songs that are more optimistic than
IÆm actually feeling, as if I could make it true, as if everything in the past
was significant or beautiful in a way, even if it was painful. But the truth is
that not everything makes sense, and not every day of your life is an experience
of clear cut emotional clarity,ö says Hamilton. ôI struggle with this compulsion
to pull away from people, pull away from the things I enjoy doing, and sometimes
literally picking up and moving away when I am feeling uneasy and anxious about
my future in a given space, physical or mental. Social media these days can
exacerbate that as well.ö
Although WidowspeakÆs last two records -- Almanac (2013) and All Yours (2015) --
were conceived as a duo with lead guitarist Robert Earl Thomas, Expect the Best
finds them playing to the specific strengths of the current touring incarnation
(James Jano on drums, Willy Muse on bass). The album, recorded by Kevin MacMahon
(Swans, Real Estate), exhibits a marked increase in energy that reflects the
bandÆs live show and the organic way it was created: by four people in a room
together. The band collectively navigate dynamic changes with subtlety and
restraint; the nine tracks here reach highs of wide-eyed lushness and plumb the
depths of resigned melancholy. Their usual palette of dusty guitars and angular
twang are still here front and center, but now with a bit more 90s homage, even
if abstractly. The Pacific Northwest influences creep in throughout, as do
varying flavors of New York's legacy, the city the band still partially calls
home. ItÆs their heaviest record to date, but never loses the sense of quiet
intimacy that Widowspeak is known for.
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