Palace Music - Arise Therefore
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Artist: Palace MusicPerformer: Will Oldham
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-04-29
Music Label: Drag City
Soundtracks:
- Stablemate
- A Sucker's Evening
- Arise, Therefore
- You Have Cum (...)
- Kid of Harith
- The Sun Highlights the Lack in Each
- No Gold Digger
- Disorder
- A Group of Women
- Give Me Children
- The Weaker Soldier
Free Music Notes for Arise Therefore
Free Music Review: My soundtrack to a lonely summer
Hit: 5 Stars
This is one of those albums with a personal resonance too deep to be separated from my opinion of the disc as a whole. This is the spare, haunting music that accompanied my summer of '96, a time of aesthetic and personal discovery, tempered with both existential and self-imposed loneliness. Will Oldham's lyrics are poetic and ambiguous, but always seem to connect an aimless, uneasy, backwoods sociality reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy's "Suttree" with more abstract and personal anxieties. Meaning opens to khora at the edges of confusion, like the pastoral drawing on the cover that disintegrates into marks in a blank, mute space. The folkish, Appalacchia of Oldham's rough-hewn guitar is here augmented with David Grubb's Morton Feldman-informed piano chords, which hang over the proceedings in beautiful decay. The country-folksiness of his phrasing is undercut by the artful placement and sense of space, fitting perfectly within Oldham's world of high art meets rural low-life. Much has been made of the use of a drum machine, but Steve Albini recorded it with an open air mike, like everything else; and it doesn't occupy any sort of (cyber)space of its own-just a simple clunk from the back of the room. This mix of minimal indie musical molasses and idiot man-child psychoanalysis inhabits an odd corner of its own. It sits there, alone in its head in a smoke-stained room, with Adolf Wolfli and Henry Darger, each biting his fingernails and sweating profusely.
Arise Therefore Poster
Will Oldham, the guitarist-singer-songwriter behind Palace Music and its various incarnations (Palace Brothers, Palace Songs, and plain Palace), is not a rocker by any stretch of the imagination, nor even a particularly good musician. But despite (or perhaps, because of) his limitations, he manages to make disarmingly unique and effective recordings. Palace music, whether buffeted by the slide guitar and banjo of the 1993 debut There Is No One What Will Take Care Of You or framed by the piano figures and low-tech Maya Tone drum machine heard on Arise Therefore, always sounds as if it teeters on the edge of oblivion, one whimper away from breaking down and one languid, creaky note from crumbling completely.While Oldham's hiccuppy blues tendencies have led critics to brand his Palace music somehow Appalachian, the Louisville-based former actor probably doesn't know enough about song forms to imitate them effectively. But his strained voice and low-fi folk approach to what's essentially indie rock do create the illusion that he's fronting a rustic mountain jug band. Still, Oldham's delicate poetry reveals lyrical sophistication. You know there's something a little more postmodern going on. --Roni Sarig
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