A Thread, Silvered and Trembling
Drew McDowall
A Thread, Silvered and Trembling
Boomkat Product Review:
Coil’s Drew McDowell summons comparisons with his work on the legendary ‘Time Machines’ across an album of electronically processed bagpipe and chamber drone laments, co-produced with Randall Dunn in Brooklyn and using original material recorded by a orchestral quartet
‘A Thread, Silvered and Trembling’ is the 4th album produced during McDowell’s fruitful tenure with NYC label, Dais. Nearly a decade since he emerged solo under his own name with ‘Collapse’, his new album drops the drums in favour of hallucinatory, electro-acoustic, and beat-less scaping that best represents the inside of his mind. Crucially utilising the revered studio tekkerz of co-producer Randall Dunn (Björk, 0PN, Sunn O))) etc.), McDowell realises and projects an unfathomably layered, richly sensuous suite rooted in the same, lifelong fascination with Gaelic bagpipe laments that fed into his work on Coil’s keenly adored ’Time Machines’. With strong poetic license he adapts the traditional pibroch (or ceòl mòr) style to purpose in his attempt to convey “the ineffable – that which refuses to be spoken” in his music here, and in the process resounds with work by everyone from erstwhile Coil bandmates Threshold House Boys Choir and Cindytalk to early 0PN and Rhodri Davies.
Like a good trip, there’s a fine narrative arc of onset, escalation, and come down to ‘A Thread, Silvered and Trembling.’ Cryptic references to a “grim biblical story” and “simple syrup branding” inform the first two works’ development of plucked strings and bittersweet, airborne dissonance in ‘Out of Strength comes Sweetness’, and the elegiac 14’ odyssey ‘And Lions will Sing with Joy’ that surely harks to his work on Coil’s ELpH obscurity in its wraithlike choral swarm and dither. The 2nd half is decidedly more soothing, with ‘In Wound and Water’ fermenting harp-like strokes and electronics that beautifully curdle and riddle the mind, before ‘A Dream of a Cartographic Membrane Dissolves’ sees it off with a symphonic flourish and heightened sense of proprioception that perhaps perceives his native NYC vistas via micro-dosed 3rd eye.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Coil’s Drew McDowell summons comparisons with his work on the legendary ‘Time Machines’ across an album of electronically processed bagpipe and chamber drone laments, co-produced with Randall Dunn in Brooklyn and using original material recorded by a orchestral quartet
‘A Thread, Silvered and Trembling’ is the 4th album produced during McDowell’s fruitful tenure with NYC label, Dais. Nearly a decade since he emerged solo under his own name with ‘Collapse’, his new album drops the drums in favour of hallucinatory, electro-acoustic, and beat-less scaping that best represents the inside of his mind. Crucially utilising the revered studio tekkerz of co-producer Randall Dunn (Björk, 0PN, Sunn O))) etc.), McDowell realises and projects an unfathomably layered, richly sensuous suite rooted in the same, lifelong fascination with Gaelic bagpipe laments that fed into his work on Coil’s keenly adored ’Time Machines’. With strong poetic license he adapts the traditional pibroch (or ceòl mòr) style to purpose in his attempt to convey “the ineffable – that which refuses to be spoken” in his music here, and in the process resounds with work by everyone from erstwhile Coil bandmates Threshold House Boys Choir and Cindytalk to early 0PN and Rhodri Davies.
Like a good trip, there’s a fine narrative arc of onset, escalation, and come down to ‘A Thread, Silvered and Trembling.’ Cryptic references to a “grim biblical story” and “simple syrup branding” inform the first two works’ development of plucked strings and bittersweet, airborne dissonance in ‘Out of Strength comes Sweetness’, and the elegiac 14’ odyssey ‘And Lions will Sing with Joy’ that surely harks to his work on Coil’s ELpH obscurity in its wraithlike choral swarm and dither. The 2nd half is decidedly more soothing, with ‘In Wound and Water’ fermenting harp-like strokes and electronics that beautifully curdle and riddle the mind, before ‘A Dream of a Cartographic Membrane Dissolves’ sees it off with a symphonic flourish and heightened sense of proprioception that perhaps perceives his native NYC vistas via micro-dosed 3rd eye.
Boomkat Product Review:
Coil’s Drew McDowell summons comparisons with his work on the legendary ‘Time Machines’ across an album of electronically processed bagpipe and chamber drone laments, co-produced with Randall Dunn in Brooklyn and using original material recorded by a orchestral quartet
‘A Thread, Silvered and Trembling’ is the 4th album produced during McDowell’s fruitful tenure with NYC label, Dais. Nearly a decade since he emerged solo under his own name with ‘Collapse’, his new album drops the drums in favour of hallucinatory, electro-acoustic, and beat-less scaping that best represents the inside of his mind. Crucially utilising the revered studio tekkerz of co-producer Randall Dunn (Björk, 0PN, Sunn O))) etc.), McDowell realises and projects an unfathomably layered, richly sensuous suite rooted in the same, lifelong fascination with Gaelic bagpipe laments that fed into his work on Coil’s keenly adored ’Time Machines’. With strong poetic license he adapts the traditional pibroch (or ceòl mòr) style to purpose in his attempt to convey “the ineffable – that which refuses to be spoken” in his music here, and in the process resounds with work by everyone from erstwhile Coil bandmates Threshold House Boys Choir and Cindytalk to early 0PN and Rhodri Davies.
Like a good trip, there’s a fine narrative arc of onset, escalation, and come down to ‘A Thread, Silvered and Trembling.’ Cryptic references to a “grim biblical story” and “simple syrup branding” inform the first two works’ development of plucked strings and bittersweet, airborne dissonance in ‘Out of Strength comes Sweetness’, and the elegiac 14’ odyssey ‘And Lions will Sing with Joy’ that surely harks to his work on Coil’s ELpH obscurity in its wraithlike choral swarm and dither. The 2nd half is decidedly more soothing, with ‘In Wound and Water’ fermenting harp-like strokes and electronics that beautifully curdle and riddle the mind, before ‘A Dream of a Cartographic Membrane Dissolves’ sees it off with a symphonic flourish and heightened sense of proprioception that perhaps perceives his native NYC vistas via micro-dosed 3rd eye.
Boomkat Product Review:
Coil’s Drew McDowell summons comparisons with his work on the legendary ‘Time Machines’ across an album of electronically processed bagpipe and chamber drone laments, co-produced with Randall Dunn in Brooklyn and using original material recorded by a orchestral quartet
‘A Thread, Silvered and Trembling’ is the 4th album produced during McDowell’s fruitful tenure with NYC label, Dais. Nearly a decade since he emerged solo under his own name with ‘Collapse’, his new album drops the drums in favour of hallucinatory, electro-acoustic, and beat-less scaping that best represents the inside of his mind. Crucially utilising the revered studio tekkerz of co-producer Randall Dunn (Björk, 0PN, Sunn O))) etc.), McDowell realises and projects an unfathomably layered, richly sensuous suite rooted in the same, lifelong fascination with Gaelic bagpipe laments that fed into his work on Coil’s keenly adored ’Time Machines’. With strong poetic license he adapts the traditional pibroch (or ceòl mòr) style to purpose in his attempt to convey “the ineffable – that which refuses to be spoken” in his music here, and in the process resounds with work by everyone from erstwhile Coil bandmates Threshold House Boys Choir and Cindytalk to early 0PN and Rhodri Davies.
Like a good trip, there’s a fine narrative arc of onset, escalation, and come down to ‘A Thread, Silvered and Trembling.’ Cryptic references to a “grim biblical story” and “simple syrup branding” inform the first two works’ development of plucked strings and bittersweet, airborne dissonance in ‘Out of Strength comes Sweetness’, and the elegiac 14’ odyssey ‘And Lions will Sing with Joy’ that surely harks to his work on Coil’s ELpH obscurity in its wraithlike choral swarm and dither. The 2nd half is decidedly more soothing, with ‘In Wound and Water’ fermenting harp-like strokes and electronics that beautifully curdle and riddle the mind, before ‘A Dream of a Cartographic Membrane Dissolves’ sees it off with a symphonic flourish and heightened sense of proprioception that perhaps perceives his native NYC vistas via micro-dosed 3rd eye.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Coil’s Drew McDowell summons comparisons with his work on the legendary ‘Time Machines’ across an album of electronically processed bagpipe and chamber drone laments, co-produced with Randall Dunn in Brooklyn and using original material recorded by a orchestral quartet
‘A Thread, Silvered and Trembling’ is the 4th album produced during McDowell’s fruitful tenure with NYC label, Dais. Nearly a decade since he emerged solo under his own name with ‘Collapse’, his new album drops the drums in favour of hallucinatory, electro-acoustic, and beat-less scaping that best represents the inside of his mind. Crucially utilising the revered studio tekkerz of co-producer Randall Dunn (Björk, 0PN, Sunn O))) etc.), McDowell realises and projects an unfathomably layered, richly sensuous suite rooted in the same, lifelong fascination with Gaelic bagpipe laments that fed into his work on Coil’s keenly adored ’Time Machines’. With strong poetic license he adapts the traditional pibroch (or ceòl mòr) style to purpose in his attempt to convey “the ineffable – that which refuses to be spoken” in his music here, and in the process resounds with work by everyone from erstwhile Coil bandmates Threshold House Boys Choir and Cindytalk to early 0PN and Rhodri Davies.
Like a good trip, there’s a fine narrative arc of onset, escalation, and come down to ‘A Thread, Silvered and Trembling.’ Cryptic references to a “grim biblical story” and “simple syrup branding” inform the first two works’ development of plucked strings and bittersweet, airborne dissonance in ‘Out of Strength comes Sweetness’, and the elegiac 14’ odyssey ‘And Lions will Sing with Joy’ that surely harks to his work on Coil’s ELpH obscurity in its wraithlike choral swarm and dither. The 2nd half is decidedly more soothing, with ‘In Wound and Water’ fermenting harp-like strokes and electronics that beautifully curdle and riddle the mind, before ‘A Dream of a Cartographic Membrane Dissolves’ sees it off with a symphonic flourish and heightened sense of proprioception that perhaps perceives his native NYC vistas via micro-dosed 3rd eye.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Coil’s Drew McDowell summons comparisons with his work on the legendary ‘Time Machines’ across an album of electronically processed bagpipe and chamber drone laments, co-produced with Randall Dunn in Brooklyn and using original material recorded by a orchestral quartet
‘A Thread, Silvered and Trembling’ is the 4th album produced during McDowell’s fruitful tenure with NYC label, Dais. Nearly a decade since he emerged solo under his own name with ‘Collapse’, his new album drops the drums in favour of hallucinatory, electro-acoustic, and beat-less scaping that best represents the inside of his mind. Crucially utilising the revered studio tekkerz of co-producer Randall Dunn (Björk, 0PN, Sunn O))) etc.), McDowell realises and projects an unfathomably layered, richly sensuous suite rooted in the same, lifelong fascination with Gaelic bagpipe laments that fed into his work on Coil’s keenly adored ’Time Machines’. With strong poetic license he adapts the traditional pibroch (or ceòl mòr) style to purpose in his attempt to convey “the ineffable – that which refuses to be spoken” in his music here, and in the process resounds with work by everyone from erstwhile Coil bandmates Threshold House Boys Choir and Cindytalk to early 0PN and Rhodri Davies.
Like a good trip, there’s a fine narrative arc of onset, escalation, and come down to ‘A Thread, Silvered and Trembling.’ Cryptic references to a “grim biblical story” and “simple syrup branding” inform the first two works’ development of plucked strings and bittersweet, airborne dissonance in ‘Out of Strength comes Sweetness’, and the elegiac 14’ odyssey ‘And Lions will Sing with Joy’ that surely harks to his work on Coil’s ELpH obscurity in its wraithlike choral swarm and dither. The 2nd half is decidedly more soothing, with ‘In Wound and Water’ fermenting harp-like strokes and electronics that beautifully curdle and riddle the mind, before ‘A Dream of a Cartographic Membrane Dissolves’ sees it off with a symphonic flourish and heightened sense of proprioception that perhaps perceives his native NYC vistas via micro-dosed 3rd eye.
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