Horses In The Sky
- Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band
- Band Name: Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band
- Record Label: Constellation
- Release Date: Apr 5, 2005
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Essentially, Horses in the Sky adopts a host of varying song mechanics and a wider array of lyrical themes, a broadened pallet that either suggest a band in transition, or a newfound confidence in songwriting.
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80This record is, the odd awful phrase here or there aside, rather marvellous.
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Horses... is Silver Mount Zion's most musically satisfying disc to date because, while the well-worn formulae are present, sonic variance and compositional modification has brought a welcome diversity to an increasingly wearisome aesthetic.
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80If you can't get enough Xiu Xiu, this album is definitely for you.
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80Touching and beautiful. [#256, p.63]
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This is easily the most stripped-down album of their catalogue since their first one, and, not coincidentally, the best.
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71This album is weighted heavily with [Efrim] Menuck's quavering, strident vocals; a fact some listeners might reasonably regard as an obstacle. Thankfully, however, his bandmates frequently come to his aid both instrumentally and vocally.
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70Silver Mt Zion make music of extremes; very simple, inordinately miserable, utterly emotionally invasive, performed with such total, galvanising conviction that it's terrifying at times.
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70Whereas previous efforts spawned a shrouded sadness that sought engagement by keeping a distance, this work squares its shoulders at once, fervent in its desire to have its audience lend an ear for at least a moment.
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70Their most primitive, intimate and vocally oriented [album] yet. [May 2005, p.108]
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60The first album from the group that feels downright tedious to me in places, as well as the first one that feels like they're spinning their wheels a bit.
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60Haunting lamentations that owe as much to the Jewish Klezmer and US folk traditions as to Slint. [May 2005, p.110]
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60As grounds for our own wandering imaginations and protesting voices, Horses' six songs are not as fertile as what's come before them.
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If this is your first experience of the band, you might still find it fresh, but personally I'm beginning to feel radicalism fatigue.
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Horses in the Sky has some melodic, attractive moments, though these are drowned by yelps and off-key vocals that grate and stain the whole work.
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LolaL.10Amazingly sad, i.e. amazing.
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WayneB9Arguably the finest release thus far in 2005.
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AlM10