| 1. Canto I | ||
| 2. Planes Like Vultures. | ||
| 3. Outside Of This Car, the End Of the World | ||
| 4. To the Stars! To the Night! | ||
| 5. (Storm) | ||
| 6. We Are Gods! We Are Wolves! | ||
| 7. Breathing Rapture | ||
| 8. Look To the West. | ||
| 9. (Howl) | ||
| 10. Le Loup (Fear Not) | ||
| 11. Canto XXXVI | ||
| 12. I Had a Dream I Died. |
"The best songs here go beyond Sufjan Stevens’ orchestral folk-pop, even if they’re not as painstakingly detailed and evocative. “Outside of this Car! The End of the World!” rides a steady drum-machine beat with a syncopated pentatonic loop, adding a mirror-structured countermelody and building guitar crashes in a powerful canon. Throughout the album, interesting banjo lines mirror this kind of layered composition, creating a consistent compositional tone that’s remarkable for its consistency—even when the sounds employed on each song are so different.
“Breathing Rupture” reprises a strummed banjo introduction that is used throughout the disc, but this time Simkoff’s vocals connect into longer phrases, thrilling with poetic imagery beneath multi-tracked echoes. “Look To the West” fuelled by calm organ drones, highlights Simkoff’s oblique poetry: “Eyes full of sleep, and steady breaths pressed from chests/ … Look to the west, what colors grow there? / There, where bells and swells and storms gather”."
1 comment:
Interesting stuff. Not familiar with it. Requires a close listen; there's a lot there to hear. Thanks.
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