Spine to Sea

Spine to Sea Artist: The Stares
Label: Mimicry
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 678033302226
EAN: 0678033302226
ASIN: B0009F448A


Release Date: 2005-05-31

Spine to Sea


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Tracks:

  1. Disconnected Again
  2. 8,000 Feet
  3. Killing Time
  4. From the Sky
  5. 1 2 3
  6. On Repeat
  7. Fine Arts
  8. Forget the Souvenirs

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Album Description

Eight months in the making, The Stares' Spine to Sea is nothing less than a devastating, harmonically rich and uncompromising work of somber realism. No one who hears this CD will walk away from it untouched. The Stares are an easy obsession to acquire. The voices of songwriters Angie Benintendi and Drew Whittemore fixate on some distant invisible expanse, treading so slowly, so beautifully, through landscapes familiar, but sprinkled with some kind of heavy magical realism that just can't be described. "Americana" maybe, but with roots so deep in the earth that there's no geography that could ever really contain them. These songs simply rise up out of themselves. Wherever they come from, you cannot help but be drawn into their shadowy landscape. There's no question: your first encounter with this music will be one you'll remember.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Just the sort of stuff I expect from Eyvind Kang.......2005-06-26

I've been enjoying Mistress Eyvind on records by Andrew Drury and Aiko Shimada. And it's a relief to hear modern-day pop-music arrangements that incorporate non-electronic instruments. (Bassoons and violas continue to exist, ya know. I can promise you. I've seen them with my own eyes. I haven't heard them too much, of course. But I can assure you that they're still out there somewhere.)

Thom Yorke's female-vocal-doppelganger has finally reared her scrumptious head in the form of Angie Benintendi. And let's face it, she's a lot easier on the ears than Thom is.

My favorite passage is the extended coda of 123. I have a pet name for that 2-note motif. I call it Lenthoven. Coz it sounds like a cross between John Lennon and Beethoven.

5 out of 5 stars enchanting!.......2005-06-22

Wow. I am really happy with this album. The songs are float around your head hours after you've heard it, waiting for you to pop back in the cd player.

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