Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid

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Put on Stars of the Lid's Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid and bliss out. Unspeakably sublime, the latest effort of Brian McBride and Adam Wiltzie, who distance themselves from their hometown Austin, Texas, boogie rock scene, is a minimalist, parametric--and ambient--symphony with a faint rock sensibility that refuses to beg for attention. Tired Sounds is built from formal patterns with layers of melody, texture, atmosphere, and rhythm--but not in the way we normally know it and without the use of drums. Unidentifiable guitars, strings, keyboards, and horns, from soprano to bass in tone, are synthesized with occasional field recordings sounding like audio samples of our universe from the last century and the next galaxy. The work recalls impressionist classical music more than indie rock, and one might mathematically graph the patterns of the six suites that stretch across two CDs and six sides of vinyl with names like "Austin Texas Mental Hospital" and "Requiem for Dying Mothers." Transcendent yet subtle, Tired Sounds will require many listenings to fully grasp, remaining a fascinating puzzle to contemplate and enjoy. File under life-affirming ambient. --Jillian Steinberger

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Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid

Average customer rating: If you're not on the list you can't come in Gorgeous music Transpersonal Ambient Soundtrack Requiem for dying mothers.. Just sublime!

Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid Stars of the Lid Manufacturer: Kranky ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Space Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Ambient | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Avec Laudenum The Ballasted Orchestra And Their Refinement of the Decline The Dead Texan Gravitational Pull Vs. the Desire for an Aquatic Life ASIN: B00005QJVE Release Date: 2001-10-30

Tracks:

1. Requiem For Dying Mothers: Part 1
2. Requiem For Dying Mothers: Part 2
3. Down 3
4. Austin Texas Mental Hospital: Part 1
5. Austin Texas Mental Hospital: Part 2
6. Austin Texas Mental Hospital: Part 3
7. Broken Harbors: Part 1
8. Broken Harbors: Part 2
9. Broken Harbors: Part 3

Tracks:

1. Mullholland
2. The Lonely People (Are Getting Lonlier)
3. Gasfarming
4. Piano Aquieu
5. Fac 21
6. Ballad Of Distances: Part 1
7. Ballad Of Distances: Part 2
8. A Lovesong (For Cubs): Part 1
9. A Lovesong (For Cubs): Part 2
10. A Lovesong (For Cubs): Part 3

Amazon.com

Put on Stars of the Lid's Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid and bliss out. Unspeakably sublime, the latest effort of Brian McBride and Adam Wiltzie, who distance themselves from their hometown Austin, Texas, boogie rock scene, is a minimalist, parametric--and ambient--symphony with a faint rock sensibility that refuses to beg for attention. Tired Sounds is built from formal patterns with layers of melody, texture, atmosphere, and rhythm--but not in the way we normally know it and without the use of drums. Unidentifiable guitars, strings, keyboards, and horns, from soprano to bass in tone, are synthesized with occasional field recordings sounding like audio samples of our universe from the last century and the next galaxy. The work recalls impressionist classical music more than indie rock, and one might mathematically graph the patterns of the six suites that stretch across two CDs and six sides of vinyl with names like "Austin Texas Mental Hospital" and "Requiem for Dying Mothers." Transcendent yet subtle, Tired Sounds will require many listenings to fully grasp, remaining a fascinating puzzle to contemplate and enjoy. File under life-affirming ambient. --Jillian Steinberger

Customer Reviews:

If you're not on the list you can't come in.......2007-03-01

This is music for
people who write poetry, for people who work at home
for people who hate airports or traffic jams or shopping malls or trains
or who love the aftermath of late, late nights
and who dream a lot when they are awake.
It is music for the finest film you never saw,
or for people making plans inside their head
and it is music for people like me.

Gorgeous music.......2006-10-26

A combination of Arvo Part and Peter Namlook, this is a very strange and etheral ambient music that is very easy to like. This one will be in my car for a long while.

Transpersonal Ambient Soundtrack.......2006-08-26

Soft. Lush, Astringent... Sometimes just minimalist enought... Never overly sincere. Not new age fluff. If Michael Mann was struck with a strong satori, and sat looking out over a moss garden, this might be the soundtrack.

Requiem for dying mothers.........2006-08-24

Ambient is a strange genre. Including lot's of stupid new-age albums and pretentious titles etc..BUT there is another side of the genre that for example SOTL represent! Tired Sounds is a massive double cd.Song arragements are extremely minimal. Guitar drones,deep bass signals,and beautifull string sections.When you listen to SOTL,it fills the whole room. The sound is really big but sensitive. There's no computers used on this album ( some found sounds and sound manipulations though) so it's really human. Also the song titles like " lonely people ( are getting lonelier )" or " Austin Texas Mental Hospital " aren't the usual soothing ambient song titles. This is quite melancholy album. If Requiem For Dying Mothers doesen't move you, you're not a human being. Turn off the lights,and take a nice seat with your headphones cause this is MOODY MUSIC !

Just sublime!.......2006-05-09

Make no mistake, this album floats high above most of the pack in the ambient genre! Much of the album is achingly beautiful, from the slightly sombre drone-waves of 'Requiem for Dying Mothers' to the almost subliminal fades of 'Down 3' (which has a similar 'unrequited' feel to it as the best of Boards of Canada) and the stark swelling surges of 'Austin Texas Mental Hospital'. Intricate and engaging inner detail suffuses this album; these are not just drones for the sake of it, there is real emotion being portrayed. Most of it makes my hair stand on end!

All of the tracks deserve repeated attentive listening and yet the two cds make for perfect bedtime background ambience. I would imagine some of this would be gorgeous music to make love to as well!

While much music on the ambient scene follows a formula (albeit sometimes, with giants such as Steve Roach, Robert Rich and Alio Die, an ever evolving formula), this, and the other SOTL albums, reject formulaic frippery and each track offers something completely fresh. There is an organic and sometimes eerily elemental feel to what they offer; here is music that loses nothing on repeated playing. Pity about the lack of inner sleeve though! This carboard packaging so often used by Kranky is poor to say the least, albeit not detracting from the consitently high quality of artists in their catalogue (Pan American, Labradford and Bowery Electric - all more chillout artists than ambient - are well worth dipping into).

If you like to bathe in ambient bliss - BUY THIS ALBUM!

Average customer rating: If you're not on the list you can't come in Gorgeous music Transpersonal Ambient Soundtrack Requiem for dying mothers.. Just sublime!

Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid Stars of the Lid Manufacturer: Kranky ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Space Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Ambient | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Avec Laudenum The Ballasted Orchestra And Their Refinement of the Decline The Dead Texan Gravitational Pull Vs. the Desire for an Aquatic Life ASIN: B00005QJVD Release Date: 2001-10-16

Tracks:

1. Requiem for Dying Mothers, Pt. 1
2. Requiem for Dying Mothers, Pt. 2
3. Down 3
4. Austin Texas Mental Hospital, Pt. 1
5. Austin Texas Mental Hospital, Pt. 2
6. Austin Texas Mental Hospital, Pt. 3
7. Broken Harbors, Pt. 1
8. Broken Harbors, Pt. 2
9. Broken Harbors, Pt. 3

Tracks:

1. Mullholland
2. Loneley People (Are Getting Lonlier)
3. Gasfarming
4. Piano Aquieu
5. Fac 21
6. Ballad of Distances, Pt. 1
7. Ballad of Distances, Pt. 2
8. Lovesong (For Cubs) +, Pt. 1
9. Lovesong (For Cubs) +, Pt. 2
10. Lovesong (For Cubs) +, Pt. 3

Amazon.com

Put on Stars of the Lid's Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid and bliss out. Unspeakably sublime, the latest effort of Brian McBride and Adam Wiltzie, who distance themselves from their hometown Austin, Texas, boogie rock scene, is a minimalist, parametric--and ambient--symphony with a faint rock sensibility that refuses to beg for attention. Tired Sounds is built from formal patterns with layers of melody, texture, atmosphere, and rhythm--but not in the way we normally know it and without the use of drums. Unidentifiable guitars, strings, keyboards, and horns, from soprano to bass in tone, are synthesized with occasional field recordings sounding like audio samples of our universe from the last century and the next galaxy. The work recalls impressionist classical music more than indie rock, and one might mathematically graph the patterns of the six suites that stretch across two CDs and six sides of vinyl with names like "Austin Texas Mental Hospital" and "Requiem for Dying Mothers." Transcendent yet subtle, Tired Sounds will require many listenings to fully grasp, remaining a fascinating puzzle to contemplate and enjoy. File under life-affirming ambient. --Jillian Steinberger

Customer Reviews:

If you're not on the list you can't come in.......2007-03-01

This is music for
people who write poetry, for people who work at home
for people who hate airports or traffic jams or shopping malls or trains
or who love the aftermath of late, late nights
and who dream a lot when they are awake.
It is music for the finest film you never saw,
or for people making plans inside their head
and it is music for people like me.

Gorgeous music.......2006-10-26

A combination of Arvo Part and Peter Namlook, this is a very strange and etheral ambient music that is very easy to like. This one will be in my car for a long while.

Transpersonal Ambient Soundtrack.......2006-08-26

Soft. Lush, Astringent... Sometimes just minimalist enought... Never overly sincere. Not new age fluff. If Michael Mann was struck with a strong satori, and sat looking out over a moss garden, this might be the soundtrack.

Requiem for dying mothers.........2006-08-24

Ambient is a strange genre. Including lot's of stupid new-age albums and pretentious titles etc..BUT there is another side of the genre that for example SOTL represent! Tired Sounds is a massive double cd.Song arragements are extremely minimal. Guitar drones,deep bass signals,and beautifull string sections.When you listen to SOTL,it fills the whole room. The sound is really big but sensitive. There's no computers used on this album ( some found sounds and sound manipulations though) so it's really human. Also the song titles like " lonely people ( are getting lonelier )" or " Austin Texas Mental Hospital " aren't the usual soothing ambient song titles. This is quite melancholy album. If Requiem For Dying Mothers doesen't move you, you're not a human being. Turn off the lights,and take a nice seat with your headphones cause this is MOODY MUSIC !

Just sublime!.......2006-05-09

Make no mistake, this album floats high above most of the pack in the ambient genre! Much of the album is achingly beautiful, from the slightly sombre drone-waves of 'Requiem for Dying Mothers' to the almost subliminal fades of 'Down 3' (which has a similar 'unrequited' feel to it as the best of Boards of Canada) and the stark swelling surges of 'Austin Texas Mental Hospital'. Intricate and engaging inner detail suffuses this album; these are not just drones for the sake of it, there is real emotion being portrayed. Most of it makes my hair stand on end!

All of the tracks deserve repeated attentive listening and yet the two cds make for perfect bedtime background ambience. I would imagine some of this would be gorgeous music to make love to as well!

While much music on the ambient scene follows a formula (albeit sometimes, with giants such as Steve Roach, Robert Rich and Alio Die, an ever evolving formula), this, and the other SOTL albums, reject formulaic frippery and each track offers something completely fresh. There is an organic and sometimes eerily elemental feel to what they offer; here is music that loses nothing on repeated playing. Pity about the lack of inner sleeve though! This carboard packaging so often used by Kranky is poor to say the least, albeit not detracting from the consitently high quality of artists in their catalogue (Pan American, Labradford and Bowery Electric - all more chillout artists than ambient - are well worth dipping into).

If you like to bathe in ambient bliss - BUY THIS ALBUM!

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