Phosphorescent - Pride [2007][EAC,log,cue FLAC] torrent

Artist: Phosphorescent
Release: Pride
Discogs: 1335443
Released: 2007
Label: Dead Oceans
Catalog#: DOC005 / DOC005CD
Format: FLAC / Lossless / Log (100%) / Cue / CD
Country: US
Style: Rock, Alternative Rock, Acoustic, Indie Rock

Tracklisting:

01. A Picture Of Our Torn Up Praise
02. Be Dark Night
03. Wolves
04. At Death, A Proclamation
05. The Waves At Night
06. My Dove, My Lamb
07. Cocaine Lights
08. Pride

Matthew Houck’s adoring fans occasionally find themselves conscripted into straw-sheriff roles, bound to struggle against the mob justice of Inspector Bloggit followers who'd charge him with petty theft just because he seems aesthetically connectable to other dignitaries within his cosmic art-folk / mystic alt-country / slowcore-gospel idiom. The Neutral Milk Hotel comparisons that his work used to attract were inexplicable to this typist's ears-- wtf, because he also lived in Athens? And yes, now that he claims Brooklyn, one can detect-- in three songs-- a flirtation with those post-Animal Collective poles of, y'know, elliptical ethereality and raucous tribalism in his approach to song structure and performance.
Sure, a few acts do consciously cannibalize others' textures, but we hype-machinists too frequently commit the fallacy of assuming that soundalikeness equals influence or translates as aping. Try this at home: Play a guitar and sing, and odds are, now that so many of our psyches are plumb awash in multiplicities of bands, you're going to innocently/organically "sound like" somebody else, unless you're, I don't know, David Thomas Broughton. If in the past Phosphorescent's work contained moments that could be received as echoing Sparklehorse, Tindersticks, Clem Snide, Low, downbeat Flaming Lips, the Pacific-pastoral K Records stable, and the Joe-Henry-curated Jesus' Son soundtrack's commingling of soul, spirituals, oldies, and faux-ldies, well, good for humanity.

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