Music Recommend
Music Recommend
Recommendation:Artist: Hem
Album: Rabbit Songs
So I first heard this band on the first-ever 89.3 The Current sampler, and liked 'em. I considered buying this album, but lacked the funds and it sort of fell by the wayside for some years. Finally through the magic of yahoo music, I have it, and I find that the song from The Current is like the least-cool song even on here. One of 'em even contains what I think is the best use of clarinet in any song I've heard in ages (in the track 'Half Acre' - is that a clarinet?), and they play lots of songs in three. Lovely.
This brings up for me some longstanding questions about the nature of country music and my relationship to that genre - This isn't country music, but the instrumentation is, so where are the contours here?
2008-03-26 10:35:15
by AT
Comments: AT said,
2008-03-27 00:19:10 Either this is the music Aaron Copland always wanted to make, or it's the music I always wanted him to make. Or it's really late and I'm delusional.
AT said,
2008-04-07 02:12:19 OK, here's the deal. When I listen to this album in the dead of night (it's after 3 am now), I am consistently convinced that it is the best album ever. I WANT MORE CLARINET IN MY ROCK SONGS. And when, as I'm listening to it, my player shifts to Patsy Cline, I feel compelled to create a Patsy Cline / Neko Case / Hem / The Be Good Tanyas (did I forget anybody?) cabal to take over the entire world and bring about world peace and a thousand years of prosperity for all, only not in a creepy totalitarian sort of way.
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