Reverence For Fallen Trees (live) mp3 Black Atlantic Reverence For Fallen Trees …. download it free or buy it here!
I’m Pitchfork’d out, my loves!!! It’s fucking hot, sweaty, dirty… and NOT the way I usually like those three words strung together, let me tell you!
But really, the music has been fantastic and as I suspected, I’ve been very pleasantly surprised by some acts that I knew nothing about and very much more impressed by others I thought I knew something about. The first day, the first act, completely won me over. Sharon Van Etten is truly a sight to behold. I had heard her recordings, I have listened to Because I Was In Love a few times in preparation for this and I liked it well enough. I knew she has been getting loads of hype. And when she took the stage, her tiny self absolutely dwarfed by that immense structure, I worried a little for her. She was obviously shaken up a bit to see herself on the ginormous screen but after two songs or so, the music possessed her. (I spoke with a guy who works for WXRT promotions later that day, and we agreed, she is POSSESSED when she sings!) It was chilling how her voice rang out across that stage. We cheered and yelped and jumped up and down to encourage her to do it some more. God, yes… do it some more! Her new songs are magnificent. Go see her. Go buy her new album the second it hits. This is all so much more than the hype can even promise, I swear it.
Other day one highlights included: El-P, who I only heard a few songs, but who impressed me nonetheless (and hip-hop/rap is NOT my thing at all!); Liars, who I saw upclose and personal from the VIP section and the energy was fan-fucking-tastic. Their drummer is amazing, he was truly a pleasure to watch. Bands like that often suffer from having all the focus on the frontman so that instrumentally, aside from having to hang together in a general way, it doesn’t have to do much else. But this version of Liars was tight and fast and very good. I loved it! And as a closer, Modest Mouse just won me over, heads over tails! They reigned over the crowd that night. I heard quite a bit of grumbling on Twitter about them, but this blogger was very, very happy to dance, sweaty and dirty and tired in a field of equally filthy hipster kids at the end of a long day to the music of Issac Brock and band (did we really see Pete Quirk of the Cave Singers playing trumpet up there? Can anyone confirm?) xoxo
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