By turns lullingly ruminative and plangently affecting, Carousell is one of the assorted aliases under which Britain's Richard Skelton (who also trades under A Broken Consort And Heidika) lovingly teases out subtle and variously gradated shadings of string scrape drone motion and for my money, it's his most wholly satisfying. Carousell's luxuriant sonics may reflect the most conventionally pretty manifestation of Skelton's immersive muse, but there's still plenty of understated experimental heft to this particular alloy, Skelton here recasting his long-form drones and sweetly chiming acoustic note cascades inside spectral and pregnantly suggestive soundworlds of an almost Ulver-ish cast.
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Is track 4 missing? iTunes tags show last song as being 3/4. Just wondering. Thanks regardless, of course...
ReplyDeleteno track 4. Fat finger id3 editing I guess.
ReplyDeleteanonymous and mIKES- Actually, all of A Dead Bridges Into Dust is present and accounted for. The disc I have is not the original CDR and contains in addition to the album in question a track that Skelton made under his Carousell alias exclusively for download for Wire Magazine, which I deleted from the post without remembering to re-title things. Sorry for the confusion,
ReplyDeleteThe original EP was released in two editions. The standard edition had three tracks, and the special edition had four tracks with different artwork. The missing track is a piano piece called "Again Itself". Rumour is it that the long-awaited Carousell album is finally in the pipes...
ReplyDeleteNew Carousell album finally out. Black Swallow & Other Songs. Check it.
ReplyDeletehttp://richardskelton.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/carousell-black-swallow-other-songs/
R.S. always great
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