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Music : Red Apple Falls [VINYL]
Rating: 
- Hauntingly Brilliant
Smog's `Red Apple Falls' is arguably alt-country in the truest sense of the definition; traditional country instruments such as pedal steel guitar, Hammond and piano are employed with Bill Callahan's unconventional musical vision to create something new and wonderful.
The album throughout is spare, unsettling and haunting. The mournful horn refrain and pessimistic lyric of `The Morning Paper' sets the tone for the record. `Red Apples' is so skeletal with its piano accompaniment; the lyrics to this song and several others evoke weirdly nightmarish imagery with repeating motifs.
The two real upbeat songs, `I Was a Stranger' and `Ex Con', both tell tales from the outsider's perspective. The former impresses particularly with its narrator's self-justifying excuses for socially unacceptable behaviour: "Why do you women in this town/Let me look at you so bold/When you should have seen what I was" ending with the killer couplet: "I was worse than a stranger/I was well known".
`Red Apple Falls' is undeniably depressing in places but it delivers an enormous emotional impact and is suffused with beauty and brilliance. It will get under your skin and stay with you like Lou Reed's `Berlin' or Slint's `Spiderland'. The only disappointing track is the closer `Finer Days', which is a bit aimless after the superb preceding ragged call-to-arms of `Inspirational', but I can only give it five stars. Wonderful stuff.
Rating: - Hauntingly Brilliant
Smog's `Red Apple Falls' is arguably alt-country in the truest sense of the definition; traditional country instruments such as pedal steel guitar, Hammond and piano are employed with Bill Callahan's unconventional musical vision to create something new and wonderful.
The album throughout is spare, unsettling and haunting. The mournful horn refrain and pessimistic lyric of `The Morning Paper' sets the tone for the record. `Red Apples' is so skeletal with its piano accompaniment; the lyrics to this song and several others evoke weirdly nightmarish imagery with repeating motifs.
The two real upbeat songs, `I Was a Stranger' and `Ex Con', both tell tales from the outsider's perspective. The former impresses particularly with its narrator's self-justifying excuses for socially unacceptable behaviour: "Why do you women in this town/Let me look at you so bold/When you should have seen what I was" ending with the killer couplet: "I was worse than a stranger/I was well known".
`Red Apple Falls' is undeniably depressing in places but it delivers an enormous emotional impact and is suffused with beauty and brilliance. It will get under your skin and stay with you like Lou Reed's `Berlin' or Slint's `Spiderland'. The only disappointing track is the closer `Finer Days', which is a bit aimless after the superb preceding ragged call-to-arms of `Inspirational', but I can only give it five stars. Wonderful stuff.
- Hauntingly BrilliantSmog's `Red Apple Falls' is arguably alt-country in the truest sense of the definition; traditional country instruments such as pedal steel guitar, Hammond and piano are employed with Bill Callahan's unconventional musical vision to create something new and wonderful.
The album throughout is spare, unsettling and haunting. The mournful horn refrain and pessimistic lyric of `The Morning Paper' sets the tone for the record. `Red Apples' is so skeletal with its piano accompaniment; the lyrics to this song and several others evoke weirdly nightmarish imagery with repeating motifs.
The two real upbeat songs, `I Was a Stranger' and `Ex Con', both tell tales from the outsider's perspective. The former impresses particularly with its narrator's self-justifying excuses for socially unacceptable behaviour: "Why do you women in this town/Let me look at you so bold/When you should have seen what I was" ending with the killer couplet: "I was worse than a stranger/I was well known".
`Red Apple Falls' is undeniably depressing in places but it delivers an enormous emotional impact and is suffused with beauty and brilliance. It will get under your skin and stay with you like Lou Reed's `Berlin' or Slint's `Spiderland'. The only disappointing track is the closer `Finer Days', which is a bit aimless after the superb preceding ragged call-to-arms of `Inspirational', but I can only give it five stars. Wonderful stuff.
Rating:
- Hauntingly BrilliantSmog's `Red Apple Falls' is arguably alt-country in the truest sense of the definition; traditional country instruments such as pedal steel guitar, Hammond and piano are employed with Bill Callahan's unconventional musical vision to create something new and wonderful.
The album throughout is spare, unsettling and haunting. The mournful horn refrain and pessimistic lyric of `The Morning Paper' sets the tone for the record. `Red Apples' is so skeletal with its piano accompaniment; the lyrics to this song and several others evoke weirdly nightmarish imagery with repeating motifs.
The two real upbeat songs, `I Was a Stranger' and `Ex Con', both tell tales from the outsider's perspective. The former impresses particularly with its narrator's self-justifying excuses for socially unacceptable behaviour: "Why do you women in this town/Let me look at you so bold/When you should have seen what I was" ending with the killer couplet: "I was worse than a stranger/I was well known".
`Red Apple Falls' is undeniably depressing in places but it delivers an enormous emotional impact and is suffused with beauty and brilliance. It will get under your skin and stay with you like Lou Reed's `Berlin' or Slint's `Spiderland'. The only disappointing track is the closer `Finer Days', which is a bit aimless after the superb preceding ragged call-to-arms of `Inspirational', but I can only give it five stars. Wonderful stuff.