...i'm using yours.
bloody prodigious 21 year olds. they have the gall to release several albums in the last couple of years that not only show their well-honed musical talents but also breadth and range. i mean seriously, how is it possible to even be this... introspective? diverse? skillful? prolific AND consistently great?! i'm looking at you kids --> peter broderick. keith kenniff. thomas meluch. connor kirby-long. isn't time for you to be young slackers or something?
the new Peter Broderick album is breathtakingly gorgeous. i was actually quite surprised to learn that he was born in 1987, not 1967. amazing for the output (and genre-hopping) that he's managed in the last couple years, such as the instrumental post-classical releases on the Type label (alongside fellow boy-genius Keith Kenniff who I've already lavished much praise for his Goldmund/Helios output and Canadian wunderkind Connor K-L as Khonnor), his arranging collaborations with Justin Ringle in the folk band Horse Feathers and touring work with Efterklang. and now this Home album, just come out on the PDX based Hush label (and on Bella Union in the UK).
there is the occasional dip into the dronier elements of his Type stuff, and even a toe in postrock expansiveness but the minimal instrumentation of just guitar and vocals keeps it well in the folk arena, albeit of a haunting, ethereal kind with the layered ahhhs of his lovely voice and the quiet eeriness of the instruments he's not using. it's a good mix of the sounds of his fellow youthful maestros mentioned above (tom meluch is otherwise known as benoit pioulard) and more well known strummy types like bon iver and jose gonzales.
get yr hands onto:
myspace
home album sampler (from the Hush website)
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stupid genius kids.
"genius, in the popular conception, is inextricably tied up with precocity — doing something truly creative, we’re inclined to think, requires the freshness and exuberance and energy of youth"
its from an article in the new yorker i read last week about, of all things, picasso and cezanne...
you see picasso was a genius in his 20s and then rode on it for the rest of his life. cezanne was a late bloomer, only 'becoming a genius' in his 60s and onward after following a long difficult road of, well, mediocrity. its a good read, the author basically claims that there are two kinds of creativity, the focused determined youthful kind, and the exploratory takes-your-whole-life-to-get-there kind.
so yeah, you can expect that Great Faux Pas Album in about 2048...
well there's hope for me yet then. i always felt my mediocrity was going to get me places...
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