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- Artist: Slow Dazzle
- Album: The View From The Floor
- Label: Misra
- Year of Release: 2006
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- Reviewed by: patchen on 2006-10-14
RecommendCharming and creepy, like Nico during any waking moment, Shannon McArdle and company have refined their drone/folk into a lush masterly sound. “Fleur De Lis” shimmers with post-pop elegance, a nice counterpoint to the melancholy country of “Welfare State” which features Timothy Bracy on vocals. Bracy’s flat, conversational voice is also perfect on the heartbreaking “ The Prosecution Rests,” another atmospheric classic. McArlde returns on “The extent of My Remarks,” a straight honk tonk tune in which she channels Loretta Lynn, and that’s not joke. “Anthem” and “Now or Never or Later” create the kind of literate claustorphobia of Leonard Cohen’s recent Euro-Pop experiments. “Wedding Dance” is the song you’ve been waiting to hear to put some serious memories in their proper perspective. Both McArdle and Bracy were also in Mendoza Line, but this by far is their crowning achievement, a winner in deepest ways
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