14-08-2010, 10:30
released August 10th, 2010
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from the album - Magnesium Light
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb6kS5BFKCw
from all music
Of the several Black Moth Super Rainbow side projects â which include Tobacco and Seven Fields of Aphelion â Dreamend is the most conventional. Ryan Graveface, the guitarist/bassist for BMSR, first recorded The Sickening Pang of Hope Deferred in 2000, which was self-released in a limited run of 250 copies. In 2002, he started his own label, Graveface Records, and used it as a vehicle to release albums by his peers as well as his own Dreamend albums: As If by Ghosts, Maybe Weâre Making God Sad and Lonely, The Long Forgotten Friend, and So I Ate Myself, Bite by Bite.
review
While earlier Dreamend albums were more of the dynamic post-rock variety, Ryan Graveface took a lo-fi psych-folk approach for 2010âs So I Ate Myself, Bite by Bite. In contrast to the vocoder and synth of Black Moth Super Rainbow, his vocals swirl around a washed organic blanket made of banjo, organs, pedal steel, and acoustic guitar. The warm backing tracks balance out the dark lyrical content, which takes inspiration from a serial killerâs journal and spreads Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer" concept over a full album. Luckily, the album isnât that ominous at face value. In fact, you could easily end up packing this for a picnic with a loved one if you didnât listen carefully first. Dig a little deeper behind the sun-soaked choruses and you find some obsessive undertones, similar to the narrative "I'll be watching you" voice in the Police's âEvery Breath You Take.â In the same way that Sting pulled the wool over the eyes of wedding DJs around the world, Graveface manages to sing lines about committing a heinous crime and hiding the evidence without ever sounding the slightest bit sinister. Quirky, maybe. Perhaps even cute, from a distance. The majority of the tracks are peppy, gingerbread sweet, and concise tunes. All hang right around the three-minute mark, with the exception of the long, cricket-filled opener, âPink Clouds in the Woods,â and the super psych-soaked ten-minute finale, "An Admission." Both are good bookends to a great album. Just don't play it for the kids.
Track Listing
1 Pink Cloud in the Woods Dreamend 6:22
2 Where You Belong Dreamend 3:11
3 Magnesium Light Dreamend 3:02
4 Interlude Dreamend 2:10
5 Repent Dreamend 2:46
6 A Thought Dreamend 2:52
7 Pieces Dreamend 3:53
8 My Old Brittle Bones Dreamend 3:53
9 Aching Silence Dreamend 3:02
10 An Admission Dreamend 10:05
from the album - Magnesium Light
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb6kS5BFKCw
from all music
Of the several Black Moth Super Rainbow side projects â which include Tobacco and Seven Fields of Aphelion â Dreamend is the most conventional. Ryan Graveface, the guitarist/bassist for BMSR, first recorded The Sickening Pang of Hope Deferred in 2000, which was self-released in a limited run of 250 copies. In 2002, he started his own label, Graveface Records, and used it as a vehicle to release albums by his peers as well as his own Dreamend albums: As If by Ghosts, Maybe Weâre Making God Sad and Lonely, The Long Forgotten Friend, and So I Ate Myself, Bite by Bite.
review
While earlier Dreamend albums were more of the dynamic post-rock variety, Ryan Graveface took a lo-fi psych-folk approach for 2010âs So I Ate Myself, Bite by Bite. In contrast to the vocoder and synth of Black Moth Super Rainbow, his vocals swirl around a washed organic blanket made of banjo, organs, pedal steel, and acoustic guitar. The warm backing tracks balance out the dark lyrical content, which takes inspiration from a serial killerâs journal and spreads Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer" concept over a full album. Luckily, the album isnât that ominous at face value. In fact, you could easily end up packing this for a picnic with a loved one if you didnât listen carefully first. Dig a little deeper behind the sun-soaked choruses and you find some obsessive undertones, similar to the narrative "I'll be watching you" voice in the Police's âEvery Breath You Take.â In the same way that Sting pulled the wool over the eyes of wedding DJs around the world, Graveface manages to sing lines about committing a heinous crime and hiding the evidence without ever sounding the slightest bit sinister. Quirky, maybe. Perhaps even cute, from a distance. The majority of the tracks are peppy, gingerbread sweet, and concise tunes. All hang right around the three-minute mark, with the exception of the long, cricket-filled opener, âPink Clouds in the Woods,â and the super psych-soaked ten-minute finale, "An Admission." Both are good bookends to a great album. Just don't play it for the kids.
Track Listing
1 Pink Cloud in the Woods Dreamend 6:22
2 Where You Belong Dreamend 3:11
3 Magnesium Light Dreamend 3:02
4 Interlude Dreamend 2:10
5 Repent Dreamend 2:46
6 A Thought Dreamend 2:52
7 Pieces Dreamend 3:53
8 My Old Brittle Bones Dreamend 3:53
9 Aching Silence Dreamend 3:02
10 An Admission Dreamend 10:05