00-bill_callahan-apocalypse-2011.nfo
ARTiST: Bill Callahan
ALBUM: Apocalypse
BiTRATE: 150kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: Drag City
GENRE: Indie
SiZE: 45.14 megs
PLAYTiME: 0h 40min 24sec total
RiP DATE: 2011-04-09
STORE DATE: 2011-04-08
Track List:
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01. Drover 5:24
02. Baby's Breath 5:30
03. America! 5:33
04. Universal Applicant 5:53
05. Running For The Feeling 6:05
06. Free's 3:13
07. One Fine Morning 8:46
Release Notes:
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(despite some misgivings) he seems to embrace his own freedom, or at least
Apocalypse, and is the latest from a singer renowned for his subversive outlook
Western, wherein Callahan contemplates his role and heritage against an
untrammelled American landscape of the kind that constitutes its rich cover art.
That artwork is a painting by the artist Paul Ryan, though the apocalypse evoked
television on mute, revelation (not Revelation) colouring his thoughts. This
vignette is relayed to the listener in the gorgeous Riding for the Feeling,
rejection of the cerebral. Forty minutes in length, each song winds itself into
Drover gradually spinning into urgent climax, or the hesitant finger-picked
dry, assured delivery.
David Letterman / In Australia / Oh America!") and unhurried passages of
alongside lines like "When the earth turns cold, and the earth turns black /
Will I feel you riding on my back?", but the effect is never jarring. Rather,
Callahan has gifted us perhaps his most subversive set to date: an album less
about apocalypse and ruin than it is upheaval of the positive variety, and one
of the most contented and rewarding of his career.
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