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Album Details

• Artist: Flying Canyon
• Album: Flying Canyon
• Label: Soft Abuse
• Year of Release: 2006
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• Reviewed by: patchen on 2006-11-06

Brooding folk that over a whole record tends to get wearing, Flying Canyon nonetheless delivers stark meditations on loss that kill, in any way you want to take that. With a voice that ranges from between Ryan Adams and Westerberg by way of Will Oldham, Cayce Linder mumbles and pleads, occasionally soaring beyond himself into loud testimony. There is a gothic feel to this, in the old sense of the word. Fuzz bass, and organ give a sermon-like feel to songs such as “ Crossing By Your Star, “Gibraltar May Fall” and “At Night When the World Goes Quiet.” Taken individually, these are moving and suggest deeper doors to enter with each listen. Like most sermons, however, the message gets to sound the same after awhile, and to listen to this all the way through is to wish for a shift in tempo, or vocal phrase, or a boost in volume. While they don’t come close to rocking, this trio manages to create a lo-fi world of eulogies for places only they have been too. We’re invited, and you’ll want to go, but you hope there will be more to see than what has been suggested is there thus far.

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