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Paul Brill:
New Pagan Love Song
On New Pagan Love Song, Paul Brill manages a successful and tasteful marriage of Americana and electronica (something hes dubbed Electricana). Despite its turgid pace, Brills album is mostly gorgeous: a slow-burner, littered with wonderful fragments and noises framing delicate off-center pop melodies. Its hard not to think of Wilco here and their ever-growing sonic palette. Shaky and wistful, a bit like a bratty Jeff Tweedy, Brill creates similar landscapes to said huge band and even employs a comparable approach in creating his deft song portraits (lots of abstract imagery). Hes not so reliant on the blips and the bleeps or the loops even (as say The Postal Service) that it becomes overwhelming. Instead, it compliments an often complex yet easily discernable arrangement. Occasionally the album will lose itself in its own meandering path (Comeback Kid is a bit grating, and Daylight Scars is less than engaging), but the album is no less understated or hypnotic as a whole. Powerlines is a float downstream, as is the revisionist take on Indian Summer; and the title track is the low-key/high-impact anthem of the year and no doubt the albums marquee moment.
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