Kevin House - World Of Beauty
Track List :1. World Of Beauty
2. All The Planets, All The Stars
3. Song Of A Cloud
4. Waterfall
5. Down River
6. Chamber Music
7. Earthbound
8. Carnival Song
9. Lucia Zarate
10. Where I Want To Be
Kevin House has a very thin little voice that warbles support more carefully modulated music. His gentleness and warmth whispery slowly grows on you throughout this, his second album, though at the back of your mind you have a sneaking suspicion that he can not really sing.
It is hardly low-fi - everything seems carefully calculated, especially small bits of solo instruments, at the break while the meaning of the songs' dark slowly sidle more messages and comfortable to you. Images evoked by the songs -- which are certainly leading lyric, though some of his songs are very sweet, especially the opener of the World Beauty and the delicate song of a Cloud - are apparently naive to a world that does not reveal more closely on its Learn Côté.
The material ranges around a little Americana as Song of the River Cloud and Down (which recalls The Handsome Family meets Silver Jews supported by a palm court orchestra), thanks to songs that are much closer to the tradition of European song.
By mixing in mournful pedal steel guitar, courtesy of Paul Rigby, and some simple but doing trumpet Mike Derrick, the World of Beauty a miasma of sadness that hangs over it like a dark cloud.
Definitely an album for miserablists bedroom often interesting musically, with songs like Waterfall juddering featuring guitar and stuttering rhythms, coupled with lyrics also intriguing.
House is a kind of cult naive painter, his work, flirting with a number of issues such as the cult of carnival show banners, old documents and boxers, and his songs reflect a similar counter-culture point of view, providing previews downbeat in a mysterious world but proudly.
This is particularly evident on the song Carnival, which namechecks characters such as Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy, but clearly indicates that the anticipation of the arrival of the carnival in the city is synonymous with something far more ephemeral pleasure . With its vaguely sinister, lilting tune, it's one of those songs that timidly is once you move your focus of the hurdy-gurdy brilliant model of his music.
If you like your music smart, sweet and distinctly sinister (albeit in a rather nice way), then Kevin House is certainly someone to extract.
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