If you thought the first two Brightblack Morning Light records were adrift in a sea of languidity, you won't be surprised by the third -- unless, of course, you'd think that after being begged to add some variety to their sound, the duo would pull back from the brink. Proving themselves perfectly immune to criticism, Brightblack Morning Light do nothing but chill out yet farther on Motion to Rejoin. Recorded in the secluded New Mexico desert with many self-enforced limitations -- most notable of which is the restriction of studio power to direct solar radiation (aka daylight) -- Rachael Hughes and Naybob Shineywater have fashioned another record that cobbles together eight tracks from what seems like a maximum of two or three different grooves. The duo and their compatriots nonetheless continue to sound great, even if their music's true aim is nothing more than relaxation or meditation. Hughes' Rhodes piano and Shineywater's Silvertone guitar or Hohner clavinet amble through the album, calling up the ghosts of the American Southwest (and South), even as they veer yet closer to nearer descendants like Talk Talk and Spiritualized. The lyrics, when they occur, offer encomiums to natural living (naturally) with the occasional warning of the modern world's perils (a sampling: "I still live by the river in a little tent," "I see the places where the tee-pee once was risen," "Nobody wants oppression," "Keep the spirit clean and let the high times roll"). Brightblack Morning Light's intentions and actions are indeed admirable -- they're committed advocates of much more than just drug legalization -- but Motion to Rejoin struggles mightily to articulate a focus aside from tranquility.
An excruciating album that sometimes feels like it will never end, Motion To Rejoin nevertheless shows class and quality in it's execution, looking to soul, blues and r 'n' b for inspiration, rather than typical folk touchstones
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Artist: Brightblack Morning LightAlbum: Motion to RejoinFile Under: Freak FolkRecommended if You Like: Devendra Banhardt, Joanna Newsom, SpiritualizedFeatured Track: Oppressions EachBrightblack Morning Light is headphone heaven mood music to me. It’s trippy, hypnotic and spellbinding. ‘Motion to Rejoin’ is the third album they recorded from a secluded adobe in New Mexico. And the tempo
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Artist: Brightblack Morning LightAlbum: Motion to RejoinFile Under: Freak FolkRecommended if You Like: Devendra Banhardt, Joanna Newsom, SpiritualizedFeatured Track: Oppressions EachBrightblack Morning Light is headphone heaven mood music to me. It’s trippy, hypnotic and spellbinding. ‘Motion to Rejoin’ is the third album they recorded from a secluded adobe in New Mexico. And the tempo
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--- - |- On their third album, Motion To Rejoin, back-to-nature somnambulists Brightblack Morning Light have honed their already tight, dark, soulful atmospherics. Somehow even more subtly layered than 2006's self-titled astral-projecting slumber party, it feels like the songs were birthed whole, not cobbled together by Brightblack main-minds Naybob Shineywater and Rachael Hughes with warm v...
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An excruciating album that sometimes feels like it will never end, Motion To Rejoin nevertheless shows class and quality in it's execution, looking to soul, blues and r 'n' b for inspiration, rather than typical folk touchstones
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--- - |- A simple piano and drum line, chanted folk-soul vibes and of course, that dude named Nathan "Naybob" Shineywater. Brightblack Morning Light's upcoming album, Motion To Rejoin, will be in stores September 23. It was seriously recorded using only the power generated from four solar panels (!) (mp3) Brightblack Morning Light - Oppressions Each Godspeed! ~~- Brightblack Mo...
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--- - |- A simple piano and drum line, chanted folk-soul vibes and of course, that dude named Nathan "Naybob" Shineywater. Brightblack Morning Light's upcoming album, Motion To Rejoin, will be in stores September 23. It was seriously recorded using only the power... ~~- Brightblack Morning Light
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