Labels: Thrill Jockey
Review by: Captain Fidanza
Back to the hallowed halls of Thrill Jockey and the latest in a seemingly endless parade of albums for me to take to heart almost immediately.
Opening like Comus and moving through a sort of Bonnie Prince Billy inspired bluegrass sound, this is a remarkably diverse record incorporating a myriad of influences, infusing each with a strange other-worldliness leaving the listener continually on edge. In short, it’s endlessly fascinating and continually incredible.
Incidentally, Red Shift is a book by Alan Garner, who wrote The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, which I recently re-read and was disturbed by in a way I have seldom experienced. I’ve never read anything which so seamlessly melds both the real world and the fantastical world of a child’s mind, so put that Paulo Coelho down and go and find the Weirdstone.