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Ny plate fra Spokane

Little Hours slippes tidlig i august.

Bjørn Hammershaug 

Del på Facebook08.07.07

Spokane er endelig klar med ny plate, dette bandet som av faste groove-lesere kanskje kjennes beste for sine kritikerroste plater og en legendarisk konsert på Mono for noen år siden (ikke bare i betydning av at den var så bra, men legenedarisk for sitt katastrofalt dårlig oppmøte...)

Little Hours er tittelen på deres første på fire år, og den slippes på Jagjaguwar den 7. august. I en pressesnutt fra utgiveren gjengir vi:

- Little Hours is the patient sheen of stillness after a short, violent burst of intention. It is the lingering, resonant decay of a nail being hammered into wood, a piano laden marriage of small hopes and quiet violence.

In Church Hill, a borough of Richmond, Virginia, there is a small yellow cottage. Next to the cottage is an austere replica of a mid-nineteenth century, white Federal period house. The principal members of Spokane, Rick Alverson and Courtney Bowles, hand built the structure over the course of 2006 while recording and revising their first new album in four years, Little Hours. The record is both a document of and an aural parallel to that difficult, meticulous process. In the emotional vein of folk singer Jackson C. Frank, with the textural emaciation of composers Zbigniew Preisner and Morton Feldman, the songs themselves are hinged on concepts of failure and stillborn ideas, on the conflicted process of building or birthing a cerebral image into the world. There are the echoes of insistent cats running through the skeletal frame of the house, pillaged, infant birds in their mouths, left half-dead at the foot of the hole where the stair would be.

Låtliste for både LP og CD:

Singing
Minor Careers
If There Is Hope, It Lies In The Proles
Thankless Marriage
Building
Middle School
Addendum
These Things
Leases & Promises
Tell Me