Gown - The Old Line

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4...according to our Ant on Fri 04 Dec, 2009.

Andrew McGregor's Gown project seems to be getting stronger in terms of fully realising his ideas and I think that 'The Old Line' may well be his most absorbing record to date. It feels like a very personal, soul searching record as vibrant guitar strings wash across the room and then gently retreat. As well as calming ambient guitar vibes things also get a lot more dense and slightly noisy heading into more psychedelic territory. LP on Divorce Records, limited to 500 copies.

Andrew MacGregor may be most known for his otherworldly guitar collaboration with Thurston Moore in Bark Haze, but his solo work as Gown is equally cosmic. The Old Line is avant-garde guitar music for deep listening and coming undone. A weird meditation. Sprawling webs of guitar ambience and outsider mantras capture an ethereal solitude– the sparse Nova Scotian landscapes that Gown now calls home reflected in the texture of his music. This is noise that sounds like a sky of birds settling into the trees for a night away from the wind. Limited to 500 copies.

Tracklist (Side A) 1/Roots 2/My Shade 3/Full Moon Morning (Side B) 4/The Old Line 5/Here

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