All The Mirrors In The House (Early Recordings 1979 - 1986)
General
| Feb 2020
Reviews
DJ Away
Reviewed 2020-02-12
Reviewed 2020-02-12
Between the ages of 10 and 17, Warren Defever of Detroit was making home recordings that anticipated wide swaths of ambient music by an entire generation. He went on to become one of the most brilliant and inventive musicians around, but it's still astonishing how good this collection of juvenalia is. These melancholy miniatures are exceptionally beautiful and mysterious, to the point where they would sound perfectly natural coming from a professional composer today. Wow! RIYL Stars of the Lid, Celer, Sarah Davachi, Grouper, Benoît Pioulard, 4AD. Favorites: 6, 10, 11, 14, 15. Tracks bleed into one another. No words, no FCCs.
1. (2:03)—Piano drones, swirls.
2. (2:56)—Streaks of rising tones, shooting star-like.
3. (2:36)—Multitracked slow acoustic guitar.
4. (1:27)—Low, murky drone.
5. (2:24)—Proto-shoegaze feel, prelude to a big dreamy rock song.
6. *(4:44)—Deep, mysterious. Slow soul ballad guitar stretched away from recognizability.
7. (0:37)—Tape in a windstorm.
8. (2:01)—More proto-shoegaze sounds. Glimmering, psychedelic.
9. (2:21)—Dark, doom metal intro music.
10. *(4:02)—Limpid, serene ambient music. Strong Stars of the Lid feel.
11. (2:00)—Echoing piano, bright and gentle.
12. *(3:18)—More Stars of the Lid ambient atmospheres, unwinding tape sounds.
13. (0:34)—Fourth world-esque miniature.
14. *(3:44)—Water sounds, dissonant wisps, industrial bleeps.
15. *(2:07)—Eerie, slightly squeaky high drone. Music for an abandoned amusement park at night.
1. (2:03)—Piano drones, swirls.
2. (2:56)—Streaks of rising tones, shooting star-like.
3. (2:36)—Multitracked slow acoustic guitar.
4. (1:27)—Low, murky drone.
5. (2:24)—Proto-shoegaze feel, prelude to a big dreamy rock song.
6. *(4:44)—Deep, mysterious. Slow soul ballad guitar stretched away from recognizability.
7. (0:37)—Tape in a windstorm.
8. (2:01)—More proto-shoegaze sounds. Glimmering, psychedelic.
9. (2:21)—Dark, doom metal intro music.
10. *(4:02)—Limpid, serene ambient music. Strong Stars of the Lid feel.
11. (2:00)—Echoing piano, bright and gentle.
12. *(3:18)—More Stars of the Lid ambient atmospheres, unwinding tape sounds.
13. (0:34)—Fourth world-esque miniature.
14. *(3:44)—Water sounds, dissonant wisps, industrial bleeps.
15. *(2:07)—Eerie, slightly squeaky high drone. Music for an abandoned amusement park at night.
Recent airplay
Reflection Pool
Alien Hour — Oct 10, 2021
Rememory
Stranded at Settembrini's (rebroadcast from Sep 2, 2021) — Sep 23, 2021
Rememory
Stranded at Settembrini's — Sep 02, 2021
Tape Slow
Stranded at Settembrini's — May 07, 2020
Tape Slow
Brownian Motion — Mar 04, 2020
Equally Divided
Alphabet Soup — Feb 23, 2020
Charting
2020-02-12 — 2020-06-17
Classical/Experimental
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| Mar 8 | 1 |
| Mar 1 | 1 |
| Feb 23 | 3 |
Track listing
| 1. | Piano Rev | ||
| 2. | Lliadin | ||
| 3. | Something About Hope | ||
| 4. | All the Mirrors in the House | ||
| 5. | Because Piano | ||
| 6. | Rememory | ||
| 7. | Tape Sound | ||
| 8. | Guitar Rev | ||
| 9. | Fine As Feathers | ||
| 10. | Reflection Pool | ||
| 11. | Equally Divided | ||
| 12. | Tape Slow | ||
| 13. | Outside the Window | ||
| 14. | Echo Lake | ||
| 15. | F Choir |