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DEATH VESSEL

Stay Close - RS-NE137

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What lends Death Vessel’s “Stay Close” its unique charm is Joel Thibodeau’s voice. He sings in a high register with a clear tone that’s beautifully sustained, but with an underlying inquisitiveness that’s distinctly childlike. Too pure and focused to run afoul of the Newsom/Banhart haters, it’s nevertheless an extraordinarily odd male voice. And Thibodeau plays to its strengths, wrapping it around fancy alliterations and using it to blow the dust off of quasi-historical bric-a-brac. Like most of the best folk tunes, few of these tracks make a lick of narrative sense. Thibodeau sings angelically about carcass racks and harpoons, pinking shears and burdock spurs, coining adverbs like “pelicanly” and “sans serif-ly” as he zips along. The places where Laura and Meg Baird (of Espers) offer harmony are especially nice treats.

Released: 2007-05-07 (CD), 2007-05-07 (LP)

LP - $13

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TRACKS

  1. Mean Streak
  2. Later in Life Lift
  3. Blowing Cave
  4. Break The Empress Crown
  5. Nothing Left To Bury
  6. Mandan Dink
  7. Tidy Nervous Breakdown
  8. Snow Don’t Fall
  9. Deep in the Horchata
  10. White Mole

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