A Silver Mt Zion - Horses In The Sky

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5...according to our Clinton on Wed 29 Nov, 2006.

Throwing up some African like sounds of their own are Silver Mount Zion (where's the "A" gone? - Brian) with their new record that we have in on vinyl LP. Lots of layers up folky viola's and random plucked instruments build to a crescendo - its quite brilliant. Why the vocals remind me of Television Personalities I couldn't tell you. I mean the whole thing is utterly pretentious but I think once you get over that, there is a fair amount of musical discovery in here. The second track has loads of shouty vocal harmonies and sounds like a Bright Eyes that has had a nervous breakdown, shaves his head, joined a religious cult and is involved in some kind of wierd ritual. I really don't want to know how these guys come up with this stuff. Its way, way out there but highly listenable none the less. The LP has three sides to it with the 4th side etched. Lovely thick screen printed package as is the norm with Constellation.

Öwe recorded some of it next to a campfire by the river, and the sleepy birds even chirped a little there beneath the moonlit trees; "yes we are oh yes we are thee silver mt. zion memorial orchestra and tra-la-la band"... troubled fingers strive to knit upward ladders, joyously; THESE SONGS ARE STICKY, WORRIED KNOTS--- everyone sang and handclapped too---(we learned to play these songs on the road mostly...)

"THIS IS OUR TORCHED ESTATES" = 6 busted "waltzes" for world wars 4 thru 6, or the sound of our nervous unit collapsing across sing-song eruptions of anxious light and clumsy heat, "mysteryandwonder, messy hearts made of thunder," tape recordered at thee mighty hotel2tango for all the GENTLE dreamers to cradle or discard... the politics of it is just love thy neighbour mostly, or heartbroken temper tantrums for grumpy refusers, or saucy anthems for all the stubborn dumbass resistance cadres maybe...(first song's about war and drug addiction, fourth song's about kanada, and the rest of it is all love songs trulytrulytruly...) the indignant critics amongst us should note that as usual there's more questions than answers here, more complaints than solutions, and at times the group singing is a little out of tune; the name of the record is "horses in the sky", and we thank you all for still listeningÖ

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