Oct 15 2009
First thoughts on new Arborise album
One of the great discoveries we made when we saw Thea Gilmore live was her support act, solo acoustic guitarist Dan Arborise. I bought his album Around in Circles at the merchandise stall because I was particularly taken with his song To The Sea. It is a really beautiful collection of songs which I can totally recommend.
I bought his second album for Helen’s birthday. It’s called Of Tide & Trail. I haven’t got totally inside it yet but it seems a bit more vicious than his previous disc. Some swearing and pointed lyrics in songs like You’ll All Get What’s Coming To You. You have to listen carefully to find them though: on the surface it’s still beautiful music.
Of course you could say the first album wasn’t short of shocking thoughts: “what do you do when you find that everything that you’ve been taught to love is a lie?”.
3 Responses to “First thoughts on new Arborise album”
well, I thought 10 mins is a long track, can I be arsed?
It was lovely :)
Is the album similar in loopiness?
That track is from the first album…please don’t tell me we never passed you it to rip? It probably ranks as one of our household favourites, just gorgeous. That track is 8mins10 o the original, so a bit loopy but not so much, if that’s what you mean?
We are getting there with the second album!
Nope, don’t hink we ever got that album….
If you ever bring yr computer out here again, I can set iTunes for easy track sharing, which would save having to rip it again…. there again a CD is even more eminently transportable than a laptop, and ripping is hardly a big deal!
Liked the loopiness, I wasn’t complaining. I’m not a huge lyric person, I frequently just go with the feel of the piece, and rather enjoyed “Everything…” while I did something else on the computer