Pentimento

Anamude
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General | Aug 2005

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The Bawd Of Euphony
Reviewed 2005-08-02
ANAMUDE • PENTIMENTO (keep recordings)
Anamude creates music unlike anyone else. It’s a blend on John Fahey esque acoustic guitar work and beautifully quirky, & sometimes drony vocal melodies. Anamude’s songs seem more like paitings than songs, small strokes of sound and syncopated guitar rhythm work build and change like colors and texture on a canvas. This record was beautifully recorded by Adam Selzer (Type foundry studio) and arraged with sounds of bottles rolling, electronics, strings and various experimental percussion sounds. Based in a folk tradition this record crosses that line and lands somewhere closer to Gastr Del Sol than to Joni Mitchell. This is a great record and should be played vigorously -tHE bAWD oF eUPHONy

1*** (4:08) Beautiful moody guitar work in Ana’s odd style that stands alone. Builds in pace as cool cymbol swells circle around the sound of a bottle rolling on the floor. Very cool
2** (2:09) awesome array of natural percussion sounds along with an electric pulse. Robotic vocals drone throughout with a consistant bell tone. Might be an opitgon. COOL!
3** (3:50) Slower acoustic guitar and gentle beat pulse. Great sea song. Cool bass work builds with the song. Vocal chorus’s lead into a larger verse.
4*** (2:05) Slow swing, Nastalgic feel. Great guitar line. Keyboards add texture.
5*** (4:40) One of my favorites. Mid - tempo with cool groove and rad guitar line. Makes me think of Modest Mouse for some reason. Cool changes. Pretty Rad
6*** (4:28) Another great one. Brooding moody, quiet groove kept my brushed snare and Ana’s guitar line. Think Gastr Del Sol on this one.
7** (2:35) Room miced sound. Slow and bendy with vox. Simple and beautiful
8*** (1:31) quick guitar line fades in and turns into a one woman folk prog-rock song. Cool
9** (2:23) Sweet melody and guitar playing. Sweet number
10* (0:57) Quick melatron and guitar ditty. Beatles?
11** (2:55) Waltzy number, with cool dual vocals and string arrangements. Beautiful
12*** (2:43) Beautiful string arrangements and droney guitar work with rumbling Timpany sounds.
13 (1:51) Rain sounds with sweet guitar playing and singing. Nice

Recent airplay

Confetti in the Sea
At Your Local DiveApr 03, 2007
A Dim-Lit Road
lick my moody guitar showOct 04, 2005
New Leaves
Umami StorytimeSep 27, 2005
The Night Was Just Black
Pop FillerSep 09, 2005
A Dim-Lit Road
Lick My Moody Guitar showAug 30, 2005
New Leaves
lick my moody guitar showAug 23, 2005

Charting

2005-08-07 — 2005-10-09
Week EndingAirplays
Oct 9 1
Oct 2 1
Sep 11 1
Sep 4 1
Aug 28 2
Aug 21 4
Aug 14 4

Track listing

1. A Dim-Lit Road
2. No One #2
3. Confetti in the Sea
4. Distance and the Flood
5. The Night Was Just Black
6. New Leaves
7. Honey
8. Running
9. One Good Dress
10. The Train's Here
11. Improbable Airplane
12. Faded Things
13. The Place I Would Wait