Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Dirty Three - Toward the Low Sun

Dramatic and fiery, Toward the Low Sun is the kind of record that summons moods and invokes emotional landscapes. Violin, electric guitar and drums shiver, shimmer, crash and chime; the path taken by the album is wending and impressionistic rather than being oriented towards crescendos or clear closure. Favourites - the haunted "Sometimes I Forget You've Gone", guitar-led, Neil Young-y "That Was Was", and gentle, sighing "Ashen Snow".