T. Gowdy - Therapy With Colour - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This record is massive and amazing. Nowhere To Go But Up is Guided by Voices' third album of 2023 (and thirty-ninth overall) and is a sprawling, wild adventure. With virtually no choruses and just two repeated lyrics in forty minutes, GBV is audacious and unafraid. One of the most fully realized works that Guided by Voices has created, Nowhere To Go But Up showcases an expert rock band at the top of their game. The band is on a roll and unstoppable. Following their monumental 40th Anniversary Celebration in Dayton, Ohio, GBV begins their fifth decade with a bang!

Following the acclaimed Miracles (Bleep Album of the Week / Albums of the Year 2022), this newly polyphonic suite of songs melds Gowdy's background in choral and medieval music with his trademark analogue electronics. A major turn towards harmonic songcraft, with alternately wordless and lyrical vocals guiding several tracks, and two set-pieces that incorporate Gowdy playing the lute, all liquified with his distinctively noised and organic flickerpulsing IDM. A resplendent, immersive, alchemical work.

Robert Schumann - Romantic Sketches [COMPACT DISCS] date 07/10/2015