Label: Darla Records
Category: Music
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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 708527013328
EAN: 0708527013328
ASIN: B00008DKAZ
Release Date: 2003-03-11
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Artist: Pale Horse and Rider
Label: Darla Records Category: Music Average customer rating:
Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 708527013328 EAN: 0708527013328 ASIN: B00008DKAZ Release Date: 2003-03-11 |
These Are the New Good Times
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Stylus Magazine review - 7.5.......2003-06-14
Recorded in the same church as the last Low and Rivulets releases, DeRosa, like Nathan Amundson (of Rivulets) did with his newest album, called in his closest and most respected musician friends to "maintain a sense of `family.'" Released on the same date as his latest Aarktica output, These Are the New Good Times is less a companion piece and more an entirely separate entity. The only parallel is DeRosa's soft voice, falling somewhere between a baritone and a tenor.
I more or less purchased the album based on my complete love and awe of DeRosa's four songs off the triple-split EP, The Alcohol EPs, with Remora and Rivulets. More specifically, one song, "Bruises Like Badges" particularly caught my ear. A simple guitar and bedroom recording with DeRosa singing about a past love showing off her "bruises" and "scars" as medallions. The melody is of the walk-around-your-house-singing-it-for-weeks variety. Disappointingly, nothing on These Are the New Good Times matches it in sheer beauty and memorability, but can't be said to not have tried (and often come close.)
With 11 songs, three of them being covers of DeRosa's friends' tracks, it's clear that DeRosa is pacing himself. The bulk of the songs are 3-4 minute folk-tinged tunes with little accompaniment besides the occasional violin, harmonium and electric guitar. Taking the folk tradition on his back, the lyrics often tell small lovelorn tales, but not without a touch of humor on occasion. "Jersey Coast Line," with its acoustic finger picking, tells of the protagonist's failed pursuit of The Girl. Just when she seems within reach, The Boy learns she has a little female tot back home, and he echoes what his foilers had been saying all along: "I think it's time I stay away from your sister / I think it's time I stay away from your daughter"
One of the standout tracks, "Will We Be Blessed Someday," contains an almost Gospel choir-like chorus, with Amundson and Alan Sparhawk contributing backing vocals. It's a plea to the Lord for perseverance and blessing: "So Lord can you give us strength / To endure our expected lengths / And I'll ask no more from you again." The other near "Bruises Like Badges" moment is "Stars," a plaintive cry against decay and for elopement, with DeRosa's voice moving up and down the scale with emotional grace: "How sad is it to see / The world through different eyes / I'd rather see it all through yours."
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