Mary's Voice

by The Music Tapes

Mary's Voice cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 4 September 2012
  • Label: Merge
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 41:34
  • Community rating: 3.61/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: noises, John Fernandes, Scott Spillane, Jeremy Ayers, Patrick Jennings, Mercer West, Laura Carter, Theo Hilton, Ian Ludders, Jared Gandy

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Julian Koster, a key figure in the legendary Elephant 6 collective, brings his highly eccentric, theatrical vision to his third album with The Music Tapes. The recording features an incredibly bizarre array of instrumentation, including singing saws, bowed banjos, and mechanical organs, resulting in a deeply anachronistic, vaudevillian aesthetic. The album is a profoundly emotional, beautifully lo-fi exploration of Americana, nostalgia, and childlike wonder.

Genres

Descriptors: lo-fi, folk, experimental, DIY, narrative

Tracklist

  1. The Dark Is Singing Songs (Sleepy Time Down South) (4:41)
  2. Saw and Calliope Organ on Wire (0:57)
  3. S' Alive (Pt. 1) (0:57)
  4. The Big Beautiful Shops (It's Said That It Could Be Anyone) (5:03)
  5. Spare the Dark Streets (4:16)
  6. To All Who Say Goodnight (5:24)
  7. Intermission (Pt. 1) (0:08)
  8. Intermission (Pt. 2) (0:07)
  9. Kolyada #3 (1:42)
  10. Playing "Evening" (4:32)
  11. Go Home Again (3:29)
  12. S' Alive to Be Known (May We Starve) (3:21)
  13. Untitled (0:15)
  14. Takeshi and Elijah (6:36)

Credits

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