Smog - Red Apple Falls
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Artist: SmogEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1997-05-20
Music Label: Drag City
Soundtracks:
- Morning Paper
- Blood Red Bird
- Red Apples
- I Was a Stranger
- To Be of Use
- Red Apple Falls
- Ex-Con
- Inspirational
- Finer Days
Free Music Notes for Red Apple Falls
Free Music Review: A Subtly Evocative Creation
Hit: 5 Stars
This is the first truly great Smog album. Earlier albums all have some great songs, but suffer from content and/or sound quality. The worst songs on this album are good and six of the nine are great. Just listen to track one, four, or five. I can dig beneath tepid sound quality if the music transcends it, but the improvement here is important because of the sound Bill Callahan, who IS Smog, creates. The sound is still somewhat skeletal, but these bones have more flesh on them than earlier albums. The sound has more baroque elements, with pedal steel, french horn, piano and trumpet added to the mix. The sardonic, insular nature of Callahan is still present: The morning paper is on its way/It's all bad news on every page/So roll right over/And go to sleep/The evening sun will be so sweet. But the songs have a more expansive and stately feel. Callahan himself has said, "Red Apple Falls was...dreamlike, more about consciousness and what it's like to be a sentient being." Do not assume this statement implies arty pretension, for Callahan is nothing if not honest and authentic-you can feel it in his songs. As for this album, imagine Summer Teeth with a pared down sound, recorded by people just coming out of disintegrated relationships, taking downers and in an introspective frame of mind. If you find this album too stilted, try Julius Caesar or anything that followed it. None of the others sound quite as intimate or subtle as this album. If Callahan's evolution continues as it did here, he just might wind up as this generation's Nick Drake, though hopefully without his tragic ending.
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