MISTLE THRUSH Silt 1995

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by Jack Rabid

Boston's Mistle Thrush used to sound like a U.S. Slowdive on their Agus Amárach EP. But even then, they were still highly enjoyable, as the vocal talents of the gifted Valerie Forgione lifted them into a special category. Silt, their debut LP, finds her elegant pipes being added to a much more broad, if still entirely ethereal and celestial, palette. Imagine the Cure at their peak, circa Faith and Pornography -- in fact, "The Sky and My Hands" is vaguely like "The Hanging Garden" -- only with all the darkness and that great suffocating claustrophobia subtracted and replaced with super-pleasant, glistening textures (almost movie-soundtrack-worthy) and childlike wonder. Mistle Thrush and » Read more

Tracklist

1. Freshwater
2. Flowereyed
3. One Sixth
4. Cicada
5. Overpass
6. Some Poet
7. Wake Up (The Sleep Song)
8. Silt
9. Red Caboose
10. Shine Away
11. The Sky And My Hands
12. The Honey Trip
13. Bloom