Speaking of Slints and Spiderland, it was written "Between the grooves and between the tracks, a special mention goes to" Washer "which, with its register changes made of filling and emptying and with its asphyxiated resolution of tensions, rises to the rank of one of the most beautiful ballads ever ".
Well, in the 1992, Red House Painters di Mark Kozelek e Gordon Mack they release their first eponymous album, containing long compositions written two and three years earlier; among them the ten minutes of "medicine bottle"That, with the start of four strokes of the sticks, with his slow pace, his voice cadenced to the limits of the chanter, his rhythmic sobs - like leaps of streams of water - take your breath away and sleep, flanking"Washer"In the Olympus of music.
In truth, the whole album becomes the cornerstone of the music not only of the decade it belongs to but of the entire musical scenario, overflowing the reductive slo-core / sadcore label, to define its own unique genre.
The photo of "24“, Between melancholy and sweetness, in which Kozelek's (still young) voice colors faded Polaroid scenarios.
The song of the same name, from the martial march of a march is a song from a religious supplication.
To close the disc the heartfelt invocation of "Michael“, I sing of love to friendship and to a missing friend.
The only exception to the melancholy registers of all is the folk-rock of "Lord Kill The Pain”Which, for some equipped, takes the listener to more“ clear ”tones.
