Apocalypse

Callahan, Bill

Genre: music4me > Alternative > Alternative

Format: CD Album

Released: Fri 15 Apr 2011

Catalogue Number: URA364

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The third album from Bill Callahan is essentially an ensemble recorded live in the studio, Bill Callahans Apocalypse is the corpus delecti. Something happened here! If tape is like meat, this record is the whole hog! No cuts! Delect-ables and guts!
In the opening salvo Drover, the cattle is herded. Everyone is in this roundup this is the big one! Listeners! Laugh-ers! Pundits! Wags! Haters! Hausfraus! Mr. Memory and Mrs. Future! Callahan, riding on the back of his band, cor-rals them all and guides them single-handedly through the Valley with love and ferocity. Drover is the univer-sal gathering, but Babys Breath is one mans plot of land. The focus turns again outward, next, in America! Looking at the last 100 years, which we reckon is about the narrative age of this LPAmerica! is a love letter if weve ever had the privilege to read one over someone elses shoulder. Universal Applicant, then, is the looking deep within. The flame in the mirror. Canyons can look like cartoons even when they are real.
Side two begins with Riding for the Feeling. Saying goodbye to a mass, an ice floe. A wave that sweeps away and away and keeps coming back. It is breath. Frees is the song of the truly free, the ones that know being free means being kept by the free. One Fine Morning ends it all. The mountains that create the valleys of Drover bow down. Hey! No more drovering! This record makes us wonder what has really happened in the last 100 years. And
what will happen in the next 10. The soul of your country called and left you a message. Seven messages.

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