I heard this song on the KEXP Song of the Day Podcast, so I figure it’s okay to put it up here. Lots of jingly pianos and guitars combined with liberal use of organ/accordion/etc and meandering, gradual changes in texture all together produce a delightful effect. Almost as if Terry Riley suddenly decided to start producing indie folk/rock/pop/whatever, which is not so far-fetched given that Riley was (is?) somewhat a part of the West-coast, vaguely counter-cultural classical music scene. Maybe if he had been born fifty years later, in Oregon instead of California…
Anyway, the album is Verbs by Au, and the song is rr Vs. D, and it’s all delightful, a little bit The Boy Least Likely To indie pop fun and a little bit sixties avant-garde aleatorical. I will also freely admit that I ripped off the Riley comparison from the review in AllMusic, but I think it’s particularly apt, especially since I’ve actually heard a lot of Riley’s stuff.
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July 27, 2008 at 11:43 pm
i’ve now had this song sent/played/recommended to me by several diff ppl of varying levels of hipsterdom, who have compared it to anything from animal collective to circus music, though to me personally it seems like a cross between sufjan stevens at his jolliest, with a little of beirut’s brass band and philip glass’ (or, i guess, this terry riley guy’s) arranging talent thrown in. so, the song is a musical rorschach test for pretentious people, basically.