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VANDERSLICE
Autumn de Wilde
Credits
Release Date: Jul 24, 2007; Lead Performance: John Vanderslice; Genre: Indie Rock
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Every few years, this San Francisco-based artist and producer (Spoon,
the Mountain Goats) releases a carefully crafted study in contrasts:
angsty lyrics enfolded in exquisite instrumentation. And John Vanderslice's
sixth full-length, Emerald City, doesn't disappoint. His sob stories, many occasioned
by his real-life French lover's visa difficulties, are as moving as
ever. But it's his arrangements — elegiac strumming (''Kookaburra''),
amped-up outbursts (''White Dove''), even a few spectral trip-hop visions
(''Tablespoon of Codeine'') — that make Emerald a gleaming gem. A-
DOWNLOAD THIS: White Dove
Posted Jul 27, 2007
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