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Album Review

Clogs Lantern
Talitres Records

Article written by Ged M
Feb 19, 2006.

One of the best features of Amazon is the ‘people who liked what you just bought also bought X’ list; it extends your listening by finding connections between what you know and like with what you don’t know but might possibly enjoy. That might work here though there’s more of a leap involved, from the excellent indie outfit The National to Clogs, the other project of Bryce Dessner and Padme Newsome. Clogs have a shared formal music background (they all met at Yale School of Music). Newsome was a concert violinist with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Dessner is a brilliant guitarist who’s worked with Philip Glass and Terry Riley, Thomas Kozumplik is a master percussionist and Rachel Elliott is a freelance musician.

Those who make that leap will find music which is complex, stately, elegant and slow-building, where the band augments the usual musical set up with melodica, bassoon, ukulele and mandola. It’s a world away from the indie environment haunted by The National although that might be a matter of perception; Clogs’ influences include classical, post-rock, folk and avant garde and they write songs like a rock band. They therefore have a lot in common with bands like the Bell Orchestre, Final Fantasy and A Hawk and A Hacksaw. Overall it’s a genre crossing experiment that has already created an audience (this is Clogs’ fourth record) and, for the musically adventurous, it’s a relatively unintimidating way of extending your comfort zone.

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