Natural heirs of the Slints, The For Carnation sublimate with depth and chiaroscuro the ability to encode tensions and resolutions.
Not surprisingly, their founder Brian McMahan, as well as being a key musician of the rock alternative American of the second half of the eighties (guitarist of Squirrel Bait) was - in fact - co-founder of Slint.
After the first EP "Fight Songs"Released in 1995, with in line up in addition to McMahan (who will prove to be the only fixed element over the years) on vocals and guitar, David Pajo (Slint and Tortoise) on guitar, Doug McCombs (Tortoise) on bass and Johnny" Machine "Herndon ( Tortoise) on drums, i The For Carnation, in 1996, they put their first masterpiece to the press "marshmallows”(Matador), David Pajo's widowed record on guitar (replaced by Grant Barger) and with John Weiss and Michael McMahan (Brian's brother).
"marshmallows"Immediately imposes itself as a liquid magmatic in a minor hour in slow, now in violent expansion, in which sparse desert spaces bring the point with the opening ballad" On The Swing ", daughter of its time and times to come .
The dream is then interrupted by the cadenced and dissonant "I Wear The Gold"Which reminds the listener of nightmares from the end of the millennium, before"Lmyr, MarshmallowYou write a poorly written storybook.
The splendid "Winter Lair", With its rarefactions, bells and noises and with its voice, builds a bridge towards what will be in 2000 the group's other masterpiece of the same name, song and" record anticipation ", made perfect by the subsequent pathological"Salo".
At the end, the almost nine minutes of unsolved "Preparing To Receive You", Dismiss an epochal record that will be worthily replicated (as already anticipated) in the other splendid namesake"The For Carnation"At the beginning of the millennium.
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