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album cover WEEKS, GREG Awake Like Sleep (Ba Da Bing!) cd 14.98
This is record number three for Greg Weeks, and the one that's really finally gotten our attention. His previous disc on Ba Da Bing! was a stripped down, boy-and-his-guitar folky singer-songwriter kinda record, and while he is still essentially playing folk music, on "Awake Like Sleep" he has begun to experiment with electronics and synthesizers resulting in a sound completely alien but warm and familiar at the same time: a sort of lilting chamber folk with electro-baroque flourishes, reminiscent of sixties and seventies folk-rock bands from England. Indeed, he's been compared to AQ-faves Comus, and while we don't think his stuff really sounds like those pagan freaks, there is a certain parallel, maybe as if one of the Comus dudes went solo. Where Comus was all maniacal and relentless, Weeks imbues his music with tension and a more subtle mania, borne of sadness and loneliness. These emotions manifest themselves as haunting melodies, dreamy flutes, church organs, discordant keyboards, spooky theremins, distorted bass, and warbling melodies that sound as if they were being played on a broken old turntable. It's all under a gauzy cloud of antiquated synth sounds and gently plucked guitars, invoking an alone-in-an-old-dark-house-on-a-moor kind of melancholia. The lyrics are simple and emotional, delivered in a plaintive almost whispered tenor that occasionally slips into a damaged falsetto that is completely heartbreaking. The most surprising aspect of what is essentially a folk record, besides the use of electronics and synthesisers, is the occasional spaced out psychedelic jam, with booming Bonham beats and swirling acid leads which build to moments where the song threatens to burst wide open, positively seething with barely restrained fury, like a huge black storm cloud threatening to unleash its violent storm. "Awake Like Sleep" never really gets all that heavy, but it's still really "heavy", if you know what we mean. People into the current strain of lo-fi bedroom folk-damaged indie-pop (for instance, Tower Recordings, P.G. Six, Neutral Milk Hotel and other Elephant Six stuff, or even a less twee Magnetic Fields) should like this!
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