Window

Window Artist: The Microphones
Label: Yo-Yo Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 789856601325
EAN: 0789856601325
ASIN: B000040OCU


Release Date: 2000-02-08

Window


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Tracks:

  1. Moon Moon Moon
  2. (Something)
  3. Ocean
  4. Cover Me Up
  5. Heart Lake Rd.
  6. Drums And Birds
  7. Window
  8. Window
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Similar Items:

  1. Don't Wake Me Up
  2. No Flashlight
  3. Mount Eerie
  4. The Glow, Pt. II
  5. Song Islands

Album Description

In the year 2000, Yoyo Records was very proud to release The Microphones' album Window. This collection of six songs and seventeen audio recording experiments helped to establish The Microphones' Phil Elvrum as one of indie music's most innovative artists. The album features the playing and/or voices of some of indie music's best-known names, including Dennis Driscoll, Mirah and Calvin Johnson, and was mostly recorded at that hotbed of audio activism, Dub Narcotic Studio. The songs and experiments run the gamut from tender to bombastic. Stereo is used in uncommon ways and tape delay is used on instruments that don't often experience echo. Many of the sounds used in the experiments are drawn from tracks off The Microphones' album Don't Wake Me Up. The heavenly backing vocals on the song "Ocean" are an example of Phil Elvrum's ability to translate what he had heard and loved about the Pet Sounds-era Beach Boys, and in doing so he made it his own and gave it to all! of us. Now, in the year 2004, Yoyo Records is proud once again to offer the re-release of the out-of-print Window. We hope you love it as much as we do.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Not as catchy but just as beautiful..........2002-09-17

...as the other Microphones albums I own. Lots of fragments here, some not even doing much more than starting and then stopping (a little infuriating when the CD player is on random) but together making a fairly cohesive whole of a noisy, fuzzy and beautiful album.

5 out of 5 stars Hypnotic sonic recontextualizations.......2002-01-06

Designed as a companion to Don't Wake Me Up (K Records), The Window begins with a handful of neat songs ranging from the bouncy fuzz-pop groove of "Cover me Up" to the sad sleepy ballad "Heart Lake Rd." Then there's a whole bunch of tracks called "the window" These contain isolated elements from some of the tracks on Don't Wake Me Up, and other projects Phil was working on at the time, I guess. Organs, weird percussion, vocals. Hey, isn't that the violin and background vocals from Mirah's "archipelago"? It's like a remix album, except it recontextualizes and decontextualizes these different sonic elements. The effect is hypnotic and compelling. If you really listen to this record it has a deep meditative effect.
A great record, but it's more rewarding if you're familiar with Don't Wake Me Up.

4 out of 5 stars don't start here.......2001-11-11

The last guy that reviewed this bought the wrong album first. Actually this is an e.p. with bonus short experimental pieces at the end. I would recommend "It was hot..." as an introduction to the Microphones, then "The Glow, pt. 2". Also- all of the 7"s are great, especially "Moon Moon". The Microphones make beautiful, haunting music for those with an open mind.

1 out of 5 stars

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