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August 08, 2005
All-time most famous squids
U W Owl's 'White Mountain' follows two different paths. One is very much like sitting in your best friend's dad's den, enjoying the wainscotting and beige carpet (which together comprise approximately 95% of the visual aesthetic of the room) from the comfortable vantage point of an old [distressed] leather chair. You're sipping on a glass of flat soda and waiting for your friend to return. You begin browsing some tattered back issues of "Reader's Digest". Someone or something has imbued the room with the distinct smell of lacquer. You sneeze twice and then leave.
The second path begins at the 184th second: it is a slope, a downhill snowy slope which you recklessly ski the shit out of. Cutting, weaving, turning, shooshing. Giving the thumbs-up to less-skilled skiers, lesson instructors, pine trees, whatever grabs your fancy. At the bottom of the hill, someone slowly whispers a line from a Phil Collins song into your knit-capped ear. You sell them your ski-poles for some hot chocolate money.
'White Mountain' is actually carefully sequenced rhythms (arranged like porcelain thimbles and other tiny, incongruous knicknacks placed upon a mantle) wrapped around two extended drip-drop Dopplered breakdowns (you'll hear what I mean). Sometimes the song is unpredictable and lashes out with bursts of echoed vocals. Other times it is smooth and worn, like an old bedroom rug. Make it part of your home.
This track is from the oft-mentioned (at least here) "They Keep Me Smiling" compilation, which was assembled by Hisham Bharoocha (aka Soft Circle), available here. The only other info about U W Owl that exists (as far as I can tell) is that you can contact the band, if you'd like, at whaleswan@hotmail.com.
Posted by Kevin at August 8, 2005 01:55 AM
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