Vio/Miré – January 2009
[This week's Sunday Supplement is written by Matthew, who has volunteered to help out with the label and the blog until he goes back to college in the Autumn. Oh, and that image isn't one of the album cover, because I couldn't find that anywhere, it's just a random one from their MySpace.]
Although this came out in january I thought I’d write a wee bit about this because I don’t reckon many people will have heard of Brendan Glasson. I don’t know an awful lot about him other than what’s on his myspace page. As far as I know he’s just a rather lovely, modest guy who makes music in his living room. How unusual.
The album is a bit mismatched and sounds a tiny bit rushed, but I’m not complaining. It gives the album a kind of energy which really compliments it as a whole. I mean, if it didn’t have that slight boost of eager bewilderment it might sound a tad boring. Maybe it’s just me.
This is an astoundingly dreamy album; it’s not particularly clever or conceptual and it’s not really really about anything at all. It’s just a really lovely album to have on while you lay in bed and scratch yourself and think about what you could but won’t do later that day or while you’re on a bus or train just daydreaming, though it may cause you to miss your stop. Brilliant.
One song is actually about forgetting where your picnic spot is. May I be the first to say, aww bless.
Vio/Miré – A Nice Spot Somewhere in the Woods
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I was about to happily write off this off as just another in the endless line of gentle, bedroom-dwelling agorophobic singer-songwriters, until well into the third minute of the first song when everything unexpectedly and quite delightfully steps up a few gears.
I’m not the biggest Sufjan Stevens fan who reads this site, but I’m picking up a feint echo of his stuff here..
Yeah, it’s a slow build isn’t it, but definitely worth it. And it has banjo!
I’ve never heard of these guys at all, but I really like this.
I kind of see what you mean about Sufjan Stevens, but I got more of a hint towards Akron/Family.