Peter Silberman's second release under the project name the Antlers, In the Attic of the Universe starts with over 60 seconds' worth of ambient noises that never quite coalesce into the sort of scene-setting picture in sound Silberman must have wanted. It doesn't bode well for In the Attic of the Universe, but within its first verse, the ensuing opening track makes up for its inauspicious beginning. In the Attic has the ramshackle feel of Neutral Milk Hotel's early home-recorded cassettes, not least becaus...   [ read more ]

MP3 $10.49

Other people also bought:

The National  Mistaken For Strangers b/w Blank Slate, Cause Co-Motion!  Who's Gonna Care?, Liars  Plaster Casts of Everything

'Although he has been most often compared to guitarists like Leo Kottke and Michael Hedges, the guitarist Richard Leo Johnson most resembles on The Legend of Vernon McAlister, his second album for Cuneiform Records, is John Fahey, and like Fahey, he takes on a persona here in crafting this tightly knit cycle of guitar pieces. The entire sequence was recorded in Johnson's attic studio in Savannah, GA, on a 1930s single resonator National Steel guitar. The guitar had been the gift from a friend, and when Jo...   [ read more ]

MP3 $10.49

Other people also bought:

The Death Set  Rad Warehouses Bad Neighborhoods, Smashing Pumpkins  Siamese Dream, Year Future  Year Future

Peter Silberman's second release under the project name the Antlers, In the Attic of the Universe starts with over 60 seconds' worth of ambient noises that never quite coalesce into the sort of scene-setting picture in sound Silberman must have wanted. It doesn't bode well for In the Attic of the Universe, but within its first verse, the ensuing opening track makes up for its inauspicious beginning. "In the Attic" has the ramshackle feel of Neutral Milk Hotel's early home-recorded cass...   [ read more ]

CD $13.28