Posted by Avanhizzle in 2010, Album Review, best new music | 0 Comments
Album Review///Cotton Jones- Tall Hours In The Glowstream
MP3: Cotton Jones- Sail Of The Silver Morning
Remember those collages you had to do in elementary school art class? If not, go back in your memory and try to remember the taste or smell of the glue that you accidentally (?) ingested while pasting a hodge podge of images and text on a piece of paper that was way too small of a space for all of the cool shit that you were in to. Sometimes you used too much glue or sometimes too many words or pictures-it always ended up a mess that wound up having a more textural than visual appeal. But that was your ‘craftier-than most’ intention all the while.
I bring this up because I smelled and tasted that glue, saw a collision of images and felt the thick texture of collages past when I listened to Tall Hours In The Glowstream (Suicide Squeeze), the second and latest album from former Page France members, Cotton Jones. Mainly consisting of Michael Nau and Whitney McGraw, the Cumberland, Maryland-ers create thick aural textures with the use of super lo-fi production, Michael’s voice that sounds like a marriage between Nashville Skyline-era Dylan & Jim James, and a garage sale of instrumentation. Organs, steel guitars, video game effects, horns, bells, nylon strings and knick-knacks create a warm, inviting and beautiful record. While it may be rooted in bygone styles (everything is!) and is dripping wet with reverb, Tall Hours In The Glowstream manages to come across as new and authentic.
Tall Hours In The Glowstream’s has quickly become one of my favorite albums of 2010. Flecks of gospel, country and western, pop and an eclectic mix of ear catching and image creating sounds make it a collage to be remembered. It’s that or a walk through a faceless wax museum where you’re put in charge of making the recognitions. Cheers
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