Town and Country - Up Above

Pitchforkmedia.com sagt:

„Primarily recorded during summer 2005 in group member James Dorling's Chicago apartment, the album nevertheless captures the open space of some distant Silk Road tributary. On tracks like "Phoney Fuckin Mountain" or "Fields and Parks of Easy Access", Town and Country recall some of the casual East/West unions of Popul Vuh's Hosianna Mantra. Elsewhere, the percussive likes of "Cloud Seeding" or the plucked strings of "Bee Call" can so resemble composer Tan Dun's film scores that you'll be on the lookout for shadowy martial warriors leaping across the rooftops. Conrad's influence is felt again on "King of Portugal", a dense improvised psych-drone based upon a traditional Portuguese Christmas carol, with Dorling's semi-wordless vocal providing additional cryptic overtones. The set culminates with the nine-minute title track, a volcanic free-form ritual that scatters the album's many gilded threads to the four winds, along with all thoughts of placid minimalism. As with the rest of Up Above, this trance-inducing mini-epic is remarkable for its variant textures and periodic bursts of dissonance, neither of which have figured much in Town and Country's past work. As such, the album does rather muddle the group's ongoing identity, but hopefully future releases can serve to confirm this album as the watershed it now appears to be.“ rating 7.2

insgesamt in einen experimentellen umhang gehüllt. ich kann der scheibe meine liebe nicht verweigern. resultate meines hörvergnügens jedoch erst später. denn ein paar runden drehen wir vorher noch gemeinsam.

hier kann man reinhören.