Friday, May 29, 2009

White Sky

Product Description

Japanese Version featuring Four Bonus Tracks.

Customer Buzz
It took me about three listens to "get" this one, his last one grabbed me from the get-go, but this is a different deal. More stark, but more soulful too. A continued distillation of the themes Archer has pursued from the Coctails days till today. Where his debut album had a heady slightly euphoric 60's flavor, this moves into the more confusing terrain of the 70's. Archer struts his guitar-god status on Motorcycles, almost all of the songs have seasonal references; Summer's End, Final Season, Last Summer Days, and the themes of time passing are explored throughout. Shake is like Folk Implosion meets Burt Bacharach writing a song for, say, the Chi-Lites. And it works in a warm pre-discodelic soul-poppin' kinda way. While on tracks like I'll Be Waiting and Last Summer Days the spirit of Nick Drake is invoked. The eight minute Walking on the Farm is reminicent of Neil Young in his lost lonely endless rural highway way, but articulated like Richard Davies or Eric Matthews into some wailing noir moment of epiphany.

Customer Buzz
I bought this album in a record store in Greenwhich Village in late October - it perfectly captures that quiet time when the sun is falling and the shadows of city buildings begin to grow longer.... Archer Prewitt puts together songs almost as beautiful as Nick Drake's, but written with a more mature, complex sensibility and delivered with a little more flair. HIs songs aren't anything like the Sea & Cake, at least not superficially; but they tap into the same cool, intricate, sweetly melancholy groove that band sustains on records like "The Biz." White Sky in particular is all about feeling young but older than your years - something the Sea & Cake seems all about too.<p>A great record - beautiful headphones music for the end of a good day.

Customer Buzz
As a big fan of Jim O Rourke, Tortoise, Sea & Cake, & Sam Prekop, I could not wait to here this solo artists work.What a dissapointment. There is absolutely no similiarity with this music and the smooth, avant garde sound in which I have become a big fan. This album is so disjointed, its unbearable. I wrote this so fans would be aware that this is different stuff than I would expect from any Sea & Cake members. Be warned!

Customer Buzz
...full of light and warmth and space and the sort of blues which are not the blues per se, not of the hellhound-on-my-trail sort anyway, more like what Motown and Stax did with the blues... It's a lazy, Sunday sort of record, near to those Sundays when you don't have a lover and you're not particularly feeling the lack of one and you're not particularly hungover, if at all, and it's Sunday anyway, lost in the big city you're not quite ready to call home yet, so what do you do? You go for a walk, a la Robert Walser, and the walk proceeds something like Robert Walser narrating one of his own Sunday walks, the world streams by you, the cars and the basketball courts and the hanging laundry and the impeccable old ladies coming home from church with their starched grandchildren... that's what this feels like to me. No histrionics. No ambiguous but overwhelming pain looking hither-thither for a cause or an oppressor. Just life inside the head, and the head with its two eyes, and the eyes seeing what they see and moving on down the street in a funky, unhurried, mildly introspective groove that is exactly what it is. In that sense, it's a perfectly logical extension of Prewitt's songs in the latterday Coctails -- even when it gets serious, it never gets all that serious. It never gets serious with a hidden agenda. It just moves on down the easily naviagted, slightly seedy streets of it's own spring Sunday... Mature, I'd say: not cliche-wise, but mature in terms of the vantagepoint from which the songs come. Which is a fine, rich surprise in light of all the 1970s-ish arrangements -- if only the 70s themselves could have had such subtle objectivity.

Customer Buzz
A. Prewitt is riddle wrapped in bacon and speared by a toothpick. "Last Summer Days" is sublime. "Raise on High" is a masterpiece. "Final Season" moves. "Shakes' rolls.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #156912 in Music
  • Released on: 2000-07-24
  • Number of discs: 1

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