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Careful, considered guitar music

NYC music listener | NY, NY | 12/30/1999

(4 out of 5 stars)

"All instrumental in the style that you would expect from a Slint/Tortoise/Stereolab stringed instument player. One song sounds almost precisely like The For Carnation. Pajo plays very cleanly, subtly and at a stately pace. The tracks that work extremely well (2, 3, and 4) highlight the lack in the others but although the arrangements are extremely sparse, the record never really becomes dull. It suggests alot of space (both because of reverb and skeletal arrangements) and it has the atmosphere of music created by one person, alone. Lots of reptitious, overlapping patterns, a few non-standard time switches and really great use of a phaser pedal. It's pop music and there isn't any pretense of expirimentationl; it is nonetheless really pretty. Good music to listen to while you: a) do homework b) draw maps with autocad c) watch crowds of people disperse while staring out onto 8th Ave from your apartment. Soundtrack music in a not unkind sense."