| Bell Gardens / Slow Dawns For Lost Conclusions |
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| Album: | Slow Dawns For Lost Conclusions | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Bell Gardens | Added: | Dec 2014 | |
| Label: | Rocket Girl | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2014-12-12 | Pull Date: | 2015-02-13 |
| Week Ending: | Feb 15 | Feb 1 | Jan 25 | Jan 18 | Jan 11 | Jan 4 | Dec 28 | Dec 21 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | May 17, 2016: | Life Aquatic She Does | 4. | Jan 22, 2015: | The Sunset Life Darker Side Of Sunshine | |
| 2. | Feb 12, 2015: | Meow Take Us Away | 5. | Jan 22, 2015: | Moonlight Impressions Darker Side Of Sunshine | |
| 3. | Jan 31, 2015: | Music Casserole She's Stuck In The Endless Loop Of Her Decline | 6. | Jan 12, 2015: | Clean Copper Radio She Does |
| Album Review |
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| DJ Away Reviewed 2014-12-11 | ||
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Soft, opulent, beachy, quietly psychedelic chamber pop featuring—wait for it—Brian McBride of drone heroes Stars of the Lid. With the help of eight session musicians, he and his collaborator Kenneth James Gibson ([a]pendics.shuffle) have made something that, above all, feels like a particularly romantic and lush take on slowcore. (I’m thinking Mojave 3’s Ask Me Tomorrow.) I especially like all the pedal steel. Really, really pretty stuff to swoon to. All songs are some degree of slow. Favorites: 1, 2, 5, 9. No FCCs. 1. *(5:52)— First half is sad and enveloping like early Mojave 3. Second half is wide-eyed alt-country with strings. 2. *(5:52)—Free and easy, a little bouncier and twangier. 3. (6:26)—Orchestral intro. More melodramatic. RIYL Low, Coastal. 4. (1:55)—Instrumental. Strummed guitar, spacey drones. 5. *(4:23)—Nocturnal, keening. Vocal harmonies, tambourine. 6. (5:07)—Poppiest, most strident track here. Big and psychedelic, with horns and sun-damaged vocals. Orchestral outro. Definitely RIYL Spiritualized. 7. (3:42)— Partially a piano ballad. Surprisingly drum-heavy. Droning outro. 8. (1:43)—Instrumental. Slow, orchestral, surprisingly similar to AWVFTS’ Atomos. 9. *(5:37)—Epic, dreamy, major-key psych pop. Lots of background vocal harmonies. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Darker Side Of Sunshine | 5. | She's Stuck In The Endless Loop Of Her Decline | |||
| 2. | Silent Prayer | 6. | She Does | |||
| 3. | Sail | 7. | Trust Lost Trust | |||
| 4. | Joan's Ambulance | 8. | Avere | |||
| 9. | Take Us Away | |||||