Fevers and Mirrors
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Manufacturer : Wichita
Release date : 1 January 2005
Number of discs : 1
EAN : 5055036260015
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It's rare that pop music reaches such depths of emotion. Fevers And Mirrors, the debut album from Conner Oberst's Bright Eyes, may recall many other classic tortured artists-- Tim Buckley, naive blues poet Daniel Johnston and Leonard Cohen not least among them--but its fragility and melanchol
It's rare that pop music reaches such depths of emotion. Fevers And Mirrors, the debut album from Conner Oberst's Bright Eyes, may recall many other classic tortured artists-- Tim Buckley, naive blues poet Daniel Johnston and Leonard Cohen not least among them--but its fragility and melancholy is most definitely its own. The pivotal track is the opening "A Spindle, A Darkness, A Fever, And A Necklace" wherein the Nebraska-born singer's trembling voice attempts to answer a fuzzy recording of a child pleading a dread of separation, and fails. Elsewhere, on songs like the frantic "The Calendar Hung Itself" and "Sunrise, Sunset", the melodies become even more poignant, even more beautiful. Tinny keyboards, rapid-fire drum-beats and the odd guitar all sweeten the mix. Oberst first started detailing his desire and lack of fulfilment six years ago, as a 14-year-old prodigy in the band Commander Venus--and one can only imagine that a major cult will grow up around this tortured, mysterious, ex-Catholic. An extraordinary album. --Everett True END (Review copyright Amazon.co.uk)
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Track listing1. Spindle A Darkness A Fever And A Necklace
2. Scale A Mirror And These Indifferent Clocks
3. Calendar Hung Itself
4. Something Vague
5. Movement Of A Hand
6. Arienette
7. When The Curious Girl Realises She Is Under Glass
8. Haligh Haligh A Lie Haligh
9. Centre Of The World
10. Sunrise Sunset
11. Attempt To Tip The Scale
12. Song To Pass The Time
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