The Book Of Knots - Garden Of Fainting Stars (2011)
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Art Rock, Experimental, Avant-Garde Rock | Label: Ipecac Recordings
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 256 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 93 Mb | 00:40:21
Art Rock, Experimental, Avant-Garde Rock | Label: Ipecac Recordings
The Book Of Knots has had the pleasure of collaborating with some of the worlds most talented musicians, including Tom Waits, Mike Patton, David Thomas, Blixa Bargeld, Jon Langford, and Carla Bozulich. Founding members Matthias Bossi (Skeleton Key, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum), Joel Hamilton (producer/engineer for BlakRoc, Pretty Lights), Carla Kihlstedt (Tin Hat Trio, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum) and Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu, Frank Black, Bob Mould) forge a sound both epic and intimate, empowering and devastating. Cinematic, symphonic landscapes give way to crumbling acoustic chamber ballads. Broken guitars and beautifully warped orchestras describe the ungraceful demise of boats, blast furnaces and bloated industries. Accounts of the failed adventures of tragic would-be heroes are given voice in the band's two previous critically-acclaimed releases. Their newest album serves as the final chapter in the bands "By Sea, By Land, By Air" trilogy.Tracklist:
Garden Of Fainting Stars gives dissonant sendoffs to the doomed travelers and early astronauts that plied the skies in a quest for the final frontier: Space. The imagined utopias that await them at the other end of their fantastical journeys inevitably give way to the grim realization which mankind has faced again and again: at every hopeful turn, commonplace realities await us. A vast and empty universe, stretching far beyond infinity, capable of containing the countless imaginary creatures, civilizations, and otherwise terrestrial impossibilities that inhabit our dreams, dies in the fluorescent lighting of the laundry soap aisle at WalMart.
The Book Of Knots once again cast a wormless, rusty hook into the lifeless seas of the music industry, expecting to reap only sorrow.
AllMusic Review by Heather Phares
A requiem for the space age, Garden of Fainting Stars completes Book of Knots' “By Sea, by Land, by Air” trilogy, which captured the hopes and dreams wrapped up in different forms of transportation. Where the massive layers of sound on their self-titled album echoed the huge ships that helped shrink the world in the heyday of seafaring, and Traineater's Americana leanings reflected the blood, sweat, and tears that went into building the U.S. railways, this set of songs is a rusty graveyard for humankind’s dreams of flight, and the combination of science and idealism that led to the belief that anything was possible. Fittingly, Garden of Fainting Stars sounds mechanical in an old-fashioned and malfunctioning way, with elements that evoke gears turning and pistons pumping, torn and corroded metal and short-circuiting electronics. “Microgravity” begins the album with an ode to space monkeys powered by dense vocal harmonies and clanging metallic chords; “Moondust Must”’s lyrics compare the Moon’s oceans to wine and its dust to gunpowder, conflating fairy tales with destructive potential. The band does a particularly vivid job of describing space’s vastness and chaos on “All This Nothing,” a panorama of echoing voices that suggests unanswered transmissions, and on “Nebula Rasa,” which repeats the phrase “It is a dead world” over storms of distortion. All of this is a far cry from Traineater's rustic songcraft; indeed, Garden of Fainting Stars may be the trilogy's most experimental installment, making it all the more apt that it was released by Ipecac Records. The most thrilling moments occur when Book of Knots throw caution and overt structures to the wind: “Lissajous Orbit” spans eerie strings, Aaron Lazar's nearly operatic vocals and disturbingly decayed vocoder in its trajectory. As with the group’s previous works, several well-chosen guest stars make cameos. Nervous Cabaret's Elyas Khan adds a caustic theatricality to the title track; Einstürzende Neubauten's Blixa Bargeld ruminates on class envy and ruined elegance on “Drosophila Melanogaster”’s long-distance flights; and Ipecac co-owner Mike Patton's powerful vocals seem to sing the universe into being (or destruction) on “Planemo.” Much like Jóhann Jóhannsson's trilogy of albums about the rise and fall of technology, the “By Sea, by Land, by Air” albums paint vivid portraits of ambition and folly; Garden of Fainting Stars might be the darkest and most difficult volume, but it's no less fascinating because of that.
1. Microgravity (03:25)
2. Drosophila Melanogaster (05:08)
3. Moondust Must (03:08)
4. Lissajous Orbit (03:40)
5. Garden of Fainting Stars (03:38)
6. All This Nothing (02:55)
7. Yeager's Approach (04:28)
8. Planemo (04:44)
9. Nebula Rasa (03:08)
10. Obituary for the Future (06:03)
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