"Chapel Hill octet Sweater Weather is nothing if not part of the fabric of orchestral, crest-minded indie rock that's been prevalent nationally and locally since the start of the decade. On its accomplished debut LP, Now, Everyone Can Sing, Sweater Weather climbs for the spiritual apogees of Michigan influences Anathallo, shudders through the emotional tremors that define Okkervil River, and emblazons pop with the textures that Grizzly Bear uses so subtly. Closer to home, the vulnerability of frontman Casey Trela owes flattered debts to Daniel Hart (who plays violin on one track here) and his Physics of Meaning, part of the Bu Hanan clutch that's largely responsible for the sound of swells in the Triangle.
Those referents are a broad swath through a rangy subgenre, though, and Sweater Weather carefully juxtaposes acoustic textures and electronic concrète manipulations from 24 contributors. At its best, Sweater Weather's eight members and several dozen instruments are joists and studs, building up and out instead of in or around. When they're least sure-handed, Sweater Weather crowds its middles, as with the overly didactic, Desaparecidos clang of "The Roots That Clutch." But nine-minute centerpiece "This Is an Owl as He Flies out of Himself" finds the band righting itself at the song's midpoint, the second half overcoming the jumbled first as a tense dirge of strings and horns becomes tinder beneath Trela's lonesome voice and guitar.
At nearly 56 minutes, Now, Everyone Can Sing lacks the sort of trenchant editing that could have trimmed the ornate frames to add focus to the bright picture in the middle. But broil-and-boil emotion, the thing Sweater Weather does so well over these 10 tracks, rarely cedes to restraint and reason, and—here, in the glow of a self-produced LP brimming with ideas and enthusiasms, if not focus or newness—such considerations are mostly an afterthought. A strong start."
That is really it. Now think about it. Now stop thinking. Not a thought. This is the truth, free money, free peace. How!? you may ask. All we do see!, is we get together and make a money collective. What! hahah are you afraid of losing what you think is yours? Did you think you had money, and that it was yours? Free money and make volunteer workfair. If a job is too unfun for us we automate. We are doing it now but instead of taking work burden off the public, our society makes it so they need to try harder. We just make our own town, that's what we do. With a large bank account we can hire BIG help, to make us dream technology. Declare independence. Go to a remote location with all our friends. The people who are in control of the way the world works are pig headed and using a universal "secret" to be rich in money and power. Once we see the same "secret" we may flip the world upside down.
You can buy your way out so you don't have to buy. First we make our own town...
Calling all Pony Homies!
the jester of peace http://youtube. com/watch?v=KuUccl5rTX8 I had a dream vision of flying over the world, coming in through the clouds and seeing this land mass. It is where we will build our own town.
i'm really missing some sweater weather. when will you be playing another show? and, come back to greensboro. WUAG moved back in october, and radio greensboro is finally back!
The New Album from Dylan Gilbert available Feb 12th 2008 at Lunchbox Records (Charlotte NC), Manifest Discs & Tapes (Charlotte NC) and CDbaby.com! (followed by Itunes and various other Independent Record Stores nationwide)
Photos posted at www.templesofgrey.fotki.com from the Nightlight show early January, with Wil Donegan, and the debut of Margot and The Ghost of Tarrytown.
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No One Piece: Books of words, wood-stain, photos & floss by Catherine Edgerton / Decoupage cigar boxes by Michelle Preslik
Jan 18-Feb 15 Opening Reception: Friday, Jan 18th 7-11pm Donations accepted
All proceeds go to Safe Passage, whose mission is to empower the poorest, at-risk children of families working in the community of the Guatemala City garbage dump, by creating opportunities and fostering dignity through the power of education. This date marks the one-year anniversary of the untimely death of Hanley Denning, the visionary founder of Safe Passage.
Evening includes hors d'oeuvres; a presentation by Cassie Hoffman about Safe Passage; and music by Phil Cook, Django Haskins, Resist Not and Sweater Weather.
Bull City Headquarters 723 N Mangum St Durham NC http://bullcityhq.org / http://www.safepassage.org
