Brian Mcbride - When the Detail Lost Its Freedom
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Artist: Brian McbrideEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-11-08
Music Label: Kranky
Soundtracks:
- Overture (For Other Halfs)
- Piano Abg
- A Gathering to Lead Me When You're Gone
- Prelude
- Our Last Moment in Song
- Retenir
- I Will
- Stringer to Light Feed Frenzy
- The Guilt of Uncomplicated Thoughts
- For Those Who Hesitate
- Silent Motels
- Latent Sonata
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Music Review: Great solo album from half of duo Stars Of The Lid
Rating: 4 Stars
Brian McBride is one half of the duo Stars Of The Lid, who have put together some of my favorite drone music ever with Avec Laudenum and The Tired Sounds Of... Their music inhabits a strange world where classical music turns to goo and melts with drifting guitars in a way that seems to cover my head like a fuzzy blanket on a cold day. Last year, the other half of the duo (Adam Wiltzie) released his first solo effort as The Dead Texan, and now McBride is up with a release created over the course of the last four years, mainly on an ASP X keyboard sampler.
The creation instrument is interesting to note, because like the work of Stars Of The Lid, it has things in common with other work in similar genres, yet inhabits a slightly unique world. With the ASR X, McBride sampled everything from room noise to stringed instruments to vocals and harmonica, then played those sounds and layered them, creating an album that sounds like a unique mutation of his work with Stars Of The Lid. As with the work of his other group, it's an album that needs to be listened to with headphones (or at least in a certain mindset) to appreciate fully.
This isn't music to exercise to (obviously), or even probably cook to, although it does make an amazing accompaniment to winding down and relaxing. It opens with "Overture (For Other Halfs)" and by blending layers of strings and field recordings, the track recalls the amazing work by Gavin Bryars on The Sinking Of The Titanic. From there, "Piano ABG" mixes quiet piano melodies and backwards swirls of other instrumentation while soft static pops and hiss coats everything in a soft haze and "Prelude" sounds like a haunting and dry guitar being played on a keyboard (which is probably what it is), and the effect is enchanting.
When McBride takes on a slightly more structured route, he's still successful, and "Our Last Moment In Song" is easily one of the best tracks on the entire release. With soft white noise, actual guitar, and layered male-female vocals, the slowly building track sounds a bit like Labradford crossed with This Mortal Coil. On "Retenir," McBride conjures up a pulsing world of what sounds like manipulated strings, harmonica, and low end found sound rumbles that sounds like something that needs to be played at the end of man.
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After numerous excellent releases as part of Stars of the Lid, Brian McBride takes an excellent solo bow with When the Detail Lost Its Freedom, as serenely beautiful as his past work would show, but with its own distinct character. Rather than lengthy washes of psychedelic ambient guitar, McBride, using a sampler as the key instrument, here creates more focused, orchestrated songs with the help of a variety of guests, resulting in compositions that have similar emotional impact but in a different vein. Guitar drones and echoes certainly play key roles, but generally as part of a larger structure -- thus the recurrent four-note melody in "A Gathering to Lead Me When You're Gone" or the rigorously structured cycle of sound on "Retenir," sound waves constantly approaching and retreating like their beach-bound counterparts in the ocean. Lead track "Overture (For Other Halfs)" sets the tone, feeling akin to Aphex Twin's high-church hush on Selected Ambient Works, Vol. 2 as performed for an elegiac sunset, with the assistance of heavily treated violin parts from Eden Batki to add even more depth and beauty. Its uninterrupted flow into the following "Piano ABG" shows that the gentle ambition of McBride in terms of extended composition remains intact, and from there When the Detail makes its steady, captivating way. Songs like the breathtaking "The Guilt of Uncomplicated Thoughts," a lush combination of everything from understated trumpet to an exultant, aspiring melody, feel like messages from some lost, distant landscape. There's even singing at points -- McBride himself, as well as two separate female vocalists -- which further adds to the unexpected pleasures of this striking album. ~ Ned Raggett, RoviDance & DJ CDs
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