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LP review: The Young, ‘Voyagers of Legend’
‘Voyagers of Legend’
(Mexican Summer)
Grade: A
For their first full-length foray (after a solid seven-inch single and an excellent track on the “Casual Victim Pile” compilation), this unexposed quartet managed to break the bank with a subtle stunner. It’s the sort of album you want to root for, the rare album that seems genuinely bullish on the idea of underground rock as a mode of expressing something complicated and slightly unknowable outside of itself — this thing couldn’t as easily be a novel or a movie (peace to Arcade Fire).
The obvious hit is “Bird in the Bush,” the sort of melancholy mid-tempo burner destined for endless mixtapes if people still did that sort of thing. Without aping anything that could pass for the flavor of the past few years (peace to Arcade Fire), these hunks of fuzz and crunch, coupled with Hans Zimmerman’s distant voice, invite repeated examination — it’s a grower, but the more you listen to it, the more you listen to it. Being on the boutique label Mexican Summer, “Voyagers…” was pressed in an edition of 1,000, but plenty seem to be left in stores (and for less than the regular Mexican Summer retail price). Please rectify that.
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By Michael
December 9, 2010 6:21 PM | Link to this
Fuzzy guitars and distant voices are not the flavor of the past few years? I dunno, man.