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January 20, 2005
Secrets & Lies
Frankly we're feeling a little hurt today. Greg Weeks came out with a whole new full-length and didn't tell us! We even looked at his website not too long ago, just 'cause we had a feeling that such a thing might've been in the works. See, our trick knee was acting up, and that usually means that an awesome record is coming out... or that there's gonna be weather. (Before anybody says anything about it, we now know that if we were more diligent about reading the "new" and "improved" Pitchfork, we'd have seen the review on Monday.)
Rather than mining the same acid-folk reserves as his day-job band, Espers, Blood is Trouble is a true follow-up to Weeks's fan-f-ing-tastic Slightly West EP. If you enjoyed the latter's organ-soaked dreamy melancholia, then get ready to fall in love all over again. Weeks doesn't tinker much with the model established on his frustratingly short solo debut, so all you mope-junkies (read: greenideas matt) can quiet the bugs under your skin. Expect plenty of gorgeously layered harmonies and 125% of your RDA of groaning synthesizers. Also, expect the whole thing to be really awesome.
Great as the record is, however, we did manage to stop listening to it just long enough to make it over to Tonic to see Loren Connors present his score to the 1928 silent film, The Passion of Joan of Arc. It was nice, but there were only a couple of parts that made us really feel like the percussion guitar work was really a "score" to the film.
We found ourselves much less interested in the sound-art as we were in the film, which we suppose is to Connors's credit. Also, the score didn't really move that much, which was nice, since it had the subliminal effect of keeping the emotional intensity of the film pretty constant, instead of shifting from scene to scene.
For the record, we're huge fans of Loren Connors. The record he did with David Grubbs is one of the most beautiful things we've heard, maybe ever.
Um, that was a bit of a non-sequitur, considering this post was supposed to be about Greg Weeks, but that's alright. It's all art. If anybody is tired of hearing about Espers-related stuff, then... well, you haven't heard the record, so nevermind. We will nonetheless back off a little bit, before we turn into an Espers fansite.
Posted by matt at January 20, 2005 10:36 AM
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