Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
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Artist: UnwoundEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2001-04-17
Music Label: Kill Rock Stars
Soundtracks:
- We Invent You
- Look a Ghost
- December
- Treachery
- Terminus
- Demons Sing Love Songs
- Off This Century
- One Lick Less
- Scarlette
- October All Over
- Summer Freeze
- Radio Gra
- Below the Salt
- Who Cares
Music reviews of Leaves Turn Inside You
Music Review: Beautiful and scary as hell
Rating: 5 Stars
I wasn't sure what to expect when I breached the shrink wrap on Leaves Turn Inside you. All I knew is that I kept meaning to buy an Unwound album and this was the newest. The fact that it was double indicated it might be a Statement album of some sort, which can be a good or a bad thing. In this case it's a good thing- a very very good thing. I took the plunge and found one of my top three favorite CDs of all time. (the other two are constantly lobbying for #1, which is why i can't be more definitive).
I am a fan of the DIY sound if it's isn't too low-fi. Unwound create a unique sound space in their recording studio. Atmospheric reverb, a few effects pedals and reverse tape loops dubbed after the fact onto what sounds like two or three-take live tracks makes for music that is at once warm and pulsing, and cold and dark. Some of these tracks are downright scary. I think you could put "Summer Freeze" on the soundtrack of any horror movie you can think of and it would fit in just fine.
Mention "indie" and "prog" in the same sentence and you'll make a lot of people run away screaming. But the formula works with amazing effectiveness on this album. The clean production values give Vern Rumsey's bass the muscle it needs to cut through the fog. Justin Trosper's lonely guitar leads, barely embellished with a little overdrive and occasional tremolo, floats like a cloud above Sara Lund's monster-island 7/8 time signature (in some cases- in others, beats never heard before anywhere). Vern stirs the mix with thick tree-root bass notes. the effect is startlingly original and harmonious, somehow, even in its most discordant moments.
Like your rock? I would pit the deep riffing of Below the Salt, the angry bursts of Off this Century and the volcanic groove of Scarlette against any rock noise of any stripe. They may not crank the overdrive pedal to eleven, but they don't need it. Most of their hardest jamming sounds like two plain old fenders, hooked into amps and cranked, interlocked in a battle to the bitter end.
This horror movie filmed on Monster Island is full of interesting characters, monstrous on the outside and tender on the inside. The lovelorn letter that makes up the lyrics of Scarlette are scathing, sad and beautiful all at once. The protagonist of "Summer Freeze" thought he was dead, but it turns out he's alive. A lot of lyrical moments remind me of Poe, maybe even HP Lovecraft.
Anyway, this is great album, with a lot to offer to a wide range of tastes. You'll find it especially tasty if you like your rock served up raw but with some complex flavors and structures, and have a love for old horror movies or gothic fiction. And probably even if you don't.
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