The Standard - Wire Post to Wire - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Standard, the band All Music Guide calls, Inchheart breakingly gorgeous... startlingly uniqueInch return with another album that demands the upper reaches of your stereo's register. On ALBATROSS their 4th album, this Portland quartet continues to climb out of obscurity on the backs of hometown reverence converted tours (Wire, the Shines, Clinic etc) and continuous stream of critical praise.

Since selling out the Concert Hall at the Sydney Opera House in 2010, Neil Gaiman and FourPlay String Quartet have been firm friends and collaborators. They have toured the world together, released a New York Times best-selling book & record together, sold out Carnegie Hall together and most importantly, recorded a new album together, Signs of Life. Reflecting the fact that Gaiman and FourPlay have each, always refused to be pigeon-holed in their creativity - together, they have created something remarkable and unique.Signs of Life is a gorgeous, ground-breaking and genre-bending collaboration between an iconic author and a unique musical ensemble. Part songwriting, part poetry, part story-telling; all-encompassing, all-engaging, all beautiful.

+/- - +/- [COMPACT DISCS] date 04/16/2002