Showing posts with label Soul Whirling Somewhere. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Soul Whirling Somewhere. Show all posts

Thursday, June 18, 2020

Soul Whirling Somewhere - Please Sennd Help (2001)


Previously on OPIUM HUM:
Soul Whirling Somewhere - Eating the Sea (1993)

Fourth and seemingly final album from the great, unsung Soul Whirling Somewhere. The 'confessional' lyrical approach suggests emo, but everything else -- the reverb, the slo-mo, ethereal instrumentation, the ever-present sense of doom -- evoke the golden eras of 4AD and Projekt.

Track listing:
1. The Wedding
2. Nani
3. Aileron
4. Salt Angel
5. Shivering Fox
6. You Stutter When You Sleep
7. Box
8. The Sun in Braids
9. In On
10. Little Gaze
11. Gaze
12. Happy Valley
13. I Give Up. Goodbye.

Pale, near-virgin paper
Barely creased or ever read
The scent of your lipstick
Still preserved where you kissed it


More along these lines:
Lycia -
The Burning Circle
and Then Dust
(1996)
The Hope Blister -
...Smile's OK
(1998)

Monday, March 23, 2015

Soul Whirling Somewhere - Eating the Sea (1993)


Darkly ethereal sounds from one-man band Michael Plaster. Songs of heartbreak and longing, for acoustic guitars and voice, awash in a sea of synthesizer.

Track listing:
1. One of These Days Some Eyes Will Be Opened
2. Not Breathing
3. You'll Tear Me Away from You
4. Wish
5. Drained
6. Swim
7. I Dream We Are Blind
8. Unhittable
9. Landed
10. Flightless
11. Swimmer in a Well

Balanced in perfect amber