STILL SINGLE

A space for thoughts on music and culture, as written by Doug Mosurock and a select handful of individuals. This is intended as a supplement to our regular feature Still Single, published on Dusted Magazine. Updates will run here more frequently, and may feature writing on music not covered in the column. Compact discs are still not accepted for review -- we have more than enough vinyl and the occasional cassette to worry about.

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February 28, 2010

Chris Brokaw – Gracias Ghost of the Future LP (Capitan)

This privately-pressed affair from Chris Brokaw (late of Come, Codeine, Consonant, the New Year, and in the midst of a varied and worthwhile solo career) finds him wordlessly re-enacting the Oslo Accords alone in the studio. Side A features the tenor banjo exclusively, weaving in and out of a repeated theme with effects-laden, even withering compositions, where this thing is tricked out by teen goth flange (“Hiding Place”) wall-of-fire distortocombustion tactics (“The Ghost”) and field recordings of a heavy rainstorm (“Unknowable”). Flip it over for the sidelong piece “The Blue Ambulance,” where Brokaw extends an electric guitar and melodic to sound like he’s pulling on some harmonium the size of a train station, to beautiful, workmanlike effect. Pressed up for a short tour of Europe and New England, there have been only 100 hand-numbered copies pressed, and since it came out last year I’ve seen it around on a couple of occasions. Paste-on sleeve, stamped labels. (http://www.chrisbrokaw.com/merch.shtml)
(Doug Mosurock)

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