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All rights reserved.A Silver Mt. Zion - Born Into Trouble As The Sparks Fly Upward (CD 2001)
| Track Listing 1. Sisters Brothers Small Boats Of Fire Are Falling From The Sk 2. This Gentle Hearts Like Shot Bird's Fallen 3. Built Then Burnt (Hurrah Hurrah) 4. Take These Hands And Throw Them In The River 5. Could've Moved Mountains... 6. Tho You Are Gone I Still Often With W/you 7. C'mon Come On (Loose An Endless Longing) 8. Triumph Of Our Tired Eyes
Album Notes Second album from Godspeed You Black Emperor side-project. Similar in style to GYBE's neo-classical post-rock, but featuring fragile, whispered vocals. Expansion to a sextet has allowed them to introduce richer, denser arrangements and greater harmonic complexity into their mournful, angry music. Editorial Reviews Mojo (01/01/2002) NME (10/06/2001) The Wire (10/01/2001) Mojo (11/01/2001) Q (12/01/2001) Mojo (01/01/2002) | |||||||||||||
Reviews  No mere side projectReview created: 22/06/07 by:  I would imagine most people, like me, will come to this CD through first enjoying the music of Godspeed, but Silver Mt Zion are no mere second rate spin-off. The band conjure their music using strings, piano and vocals but they achieve their own musical identity. When it works it is gorgeous: the opening track is a beautiful piano piece; ‘Could Have Moved Mountains’ starts from minimal instrumentation and gently builds to a wonderful melody and ‘The Triumph of Our Tired Eyes’ is a superb closer. On this track Ephrim’s fractured vocals lend the lyrics real emotional depth. In places the focus is not so strong. Strings meander somewhat aimlessly in ‘Built Then Burnt’ and ‘Tho You Are Gone..’ and the spoken word piece on ‘This Gentle Hearts..’ annoys me slightly every time I hear it. However, the band also have the ability to surprise; ‘Take These Hands..’ is an urgent, scraping violin piece with tortured vocals which arrives with a shock from the gentle preceeding track. To summarise, this CD is full of varied, thought-provoking, interesting and challenging music. Review ID: 10000000003844837 Was this review helpful? Report this review |
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