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New Coat For A New Coast
by Jordan
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Sufjan Stevens - "You Are The Rake" A guitar chord is plucked and allowed to decay almost fully before another takes its place. The simplicity of the guitar playing is matched by Stevens? direct declarative lyrical approach. At 1:12 banjo begins to emanate from the sparsely timed chords, rolling outwards, pushing Stevens to sing a denser, louder part, fleshed out by backing vocals. Though the the song?s title would suggest a connection with autumn, ?You Are a Rake? sounds more like a clear winter?s day (guitar and vocals perspicuous like ice) with a light midday snowfall (the delicately placed banjo notes). *** One of a good number of power pop gems from A.C. Newman?s solo debut, The Slow Wonder, one gets the sense from ?Miracle Drug? that Newman is a careful pop auteur with tremendous control of his craft. No synth bleep or clean guitar crunch, rousing snare/bass-drum combo or vocal flourish is out of place. (This is my first two sentence review, I think. Three sentences now. Hmm, an infinity problem? Feels right.) Posted by Jordan at December 28, 2004 6:54 AMComments
really digging this tune Posted by thebandit at December 29, 2004 2:40 PMhappy new year! Posted by wel at December 31, 2004 9:40 AMhappy new year! Posted by wel at December 31, 2004 9:42 AMthanks for all the good songs and witty comments. hey jordan (and sean!), thanks for all the music. holy shit, this sufjan stevens song is amazing. what's it from? Posted by Eric Rojas at January 2, 2005 3:54 AMHappy New Year! Posted by Linus at January 3, 2005 11:56 AMEric, 'You are the rake' is from the extended version of 'A sun came'. It also features an older bonus song, called 'Joy, joy, joy'. Posted by Jack at January 3, 2005 5:15 PMLike the Kinks-Only fresher still. Groovy. Post a comment |
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Sean Michaels lives in Montreal, where he is writing a novel. His work also occasionally appears at McSweeney's. Follow him on Twitter or reach him here.
Dan Beirne is an actor and writer living in Montreal. He writes fiction fiction fiction on here. It may feel true, but it is never True. He is most proud of his most recent project The Bitter End. Email him here Jordan Himelfarb lives in Toronto, where he is editor in chief of The Mark. Jordan's posts appear at Said the Gramophone only on the last Wednesday of every month. Email him here. Site design and header typography by Neale McDavitt-Van Fleet. The header graphic is randomized: this one is by . 
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