My family just went for a long autumn walk trying to shake of some sickness with crisp fall air. We made it a long walk to a place on Elmwood Avenue that the kids enjoy and that I don't really like. Compromised because I'm the only one that was really looking forward to the urban hike. We are home and the wife had to run out to purchase the oldest boy some new pants and sweatshirts because they are growing like weeds. I'm camped and relaxing on the couch listening to this cd and enjoying the waning hours of "music sunday" (on sundays we don't turn on any televisions until after dinner, but anyone is welcome to play music). If I had found this #redstarstheory disc when it was released in 1997 I would have named it one of my favorite albums. But since I bought it based on the album title alone a couple of years ago it gets relegated to "hey this is an awesome slowcore album I missed so now it's a welcome curiosity in my collection". The album is slow paced and has the signature soft/loud/soft dynamics of the genre. There's some woodwinds mixed in to give it a little personality. It's the kind of music I want to hear on a day like today. Slow, heady but not pretentious and with post hardcore roots (fugazi worship). Before I sat down to read and write this I perused my slowcore/shoegaze/post-rock section (yeah, I have a whole section devoted to this stuff) I passed over some tried and true standards and decided to visit this pretty unfamiliar one. But if you've listened to this type of music it's really not unfamiliar, it's more... out of focus. In that it has all the trappings of the genre but the songs aren't the ones you know. I'm enjoying it as the boys are working on a jigsaw puzzle together. When I focus on this disc I like it alot, there's some Hammond organ droning over the tinkling of indie rock fender guitars and the boys just congratulated themselves over completing a corner of their puzzle. This is a good moment.
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