Debridement

Debridement Artist: Rivulets
Label: Chairkickers Music
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 656605800820
EAN: 0656605800820
ASIN: B00008DKCL


Release Date: 2003-03-04

Debridement


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Tracks:

  1. An Evil
  2. Cutter
  3. Bridges
  4. Conversation With A Half-Empty Bottle
  5. Steamed Glass
  6. The Sunsets Can Be Beautiful (Even In Chicago)
  7. Shakes
  8. If It Is
  9. There's Nothing I Can Do
  10. Will You Be There
  11. Get Out Alive

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars title of review.......2004-06-10

This album is so lo-fi, has so much atmosphere, and is so amazingly beautiful. It makes you feel like you're sitting in the ballroom of a delapidated, rickety old haunted mansion, while these sounds, guitar, voice, and piano, float out of the upstairs bedrooms like smoke, and converge in a swirling vortex in the air above you. Listening to this record is a magical experience.

4 out of 5 stars Stylus Magazine review - 8.0.......2003-06-14

Music often revolves around two poles: artists that use their platform for self-confession and musicians that feel the need to hide their emotions behind layers of allegory and symbolism. Lately, because of the inevitable backlash against the emo genre, honesty is a rare treat in a musical scene saturated with faux-riffs and pseudo-rhymes; and even when an artist advertently makes an effort to bare his insides, it often comes off contrived. Few artists are able (and willing) to present a recording as earnestly guileless as Debridment.

Nathan Amundson's sole band proprietorship, Rivulets, is essentially a means for catharsis. Each track on Debridment began as a "humble voice-and-guitar" piece and was then made over with the assistance of Nathan's close musical friends--from Jessica Bailiff to Jon Derosa and Brian John Mitchell--the latter two also contributing to The Alcohol EPs with Nathan. Most notably, Alan Sparhawk of Low reprises his role at the helm of the mixing board from the debut Rivulets album, and succeeds in maintaining a feeling of intimacy (although I'm sure recording the album in a late 19th century cathedral provided ample inspiration) despite the added instrumentation.

Dedicated to those friends, Debridement opens with a Amundson's chilling a cappella disclosing the ominous line "There's an evil in this room" repeatedly; invoking the malevolent forces and paranoid isolation that pervade the album. Debridement, after all, is the act of excising contaminated or devitalized tissue. "Cutter" contains the most explicit reference to the title with the wry cry of "I brought the blade to my skin"; exemplifying the exhibitionist element that penetrates the work of Rivulets. "Conversation With a Half-Empty Bottle" is Nathan in full inebriation mode, battling alcoholic demons, repeating the leitmotif from The Alcohol EPs. You almost expect to hear him collapse from his chair, a la "Gimme Excess." The motif of addiction appears again on "Shakes", which also contains the first percussion of the album.

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  5. In Our Time ~ Bradley Cole
  6. Live at the Pongmasters Ball ~ Ozric Tentacles
  7. At the Albert Hall With the Rpo ~ Renaissance
  8. Zenith ~ The Jigsaw Seen
  9. Collections ~ Curt Boettcher
  10. Marathon ~ Marathon

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