Thursday, March 29, 2007

The One AM Radion--This Too Will Pass (2007)


Artist-The One AM Radion
Album-This Too Will Pass
Release Date-Feb 20, 2007
Genre/Style-Indie Electronic/Dream Pop/Indie Pop/Lo-Fi
Size-69M
Quality-192kbps

Official Site-http://www.theoneamradio.com/and http://www.myspace.com/theoneamradio

Biography-The dark, melancholy dream-pop sounds of The One AM Radio came together in 1999 with vocalist Hrishikesh Hirway, and despite various collaborators, the band remained something of his one-man project through the years. He was a student at Yale and recorded several EPs with Ted Leo and the like. In spring 2000, he befriended another Yale student, violin player Jane Yakowitz, to contribute to a seven-inch he was recording for Trouble Unlimited. The two struck a chord, personally and professionally. Yakowitz joined Hirway for some live appearances and within a year, she was permanently added to The One AM Radio line-up. The Hum of the Electric Air marked the band's proper debut in July 2002. The more expansive and lush A Name Writ In Water appeared two years later through Level Plane, and the remix album On the Shore of the Wide World followed in early 2005. The One AM Radio then made its Dangerbird Records debut in February 2007 with the self-produced This Too Shall Pass.

Youtube online videos-The One AM Radio at 52.5 Records Charleston-5 parts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zTZSBCO_J4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYC1JYimfCM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JZfK3IRwPw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIXs8Evzsf8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmZpdXdPjzo

Review-This Too Will Pass, the third album from Hrishikesh Hirway's the One AM Radio, is yet another hushed collection of dark and dreamy lo-fi indie. However, this time around it's much more Elliott Smith than Postal Service in nature, the emphasis placed on rock's live instrumentation over the electronic undercurrents that had so often swirled about the background in the past. Though Hirway (acting as his own producer) has plenty of collaborating musicians on hand to reinforce his individual underpinning with subtle touches of string or brass-lined breaks, the songs are still kept quite sparse and clean. Resisting the urge to add too many muddling layers keeps the mood light and open, and allows the main focus to stay with Hirway's tender vocals. Fills of percussion here, lamenting woodwinds there, and the solemn echoing of a violin are very specific in their placement, but not so directed as to make the songs at all rigid. In fact, this 13-song set is so calm and unfettered, it practically floats along like feathers content to go wherever a gentle wind takes them. This all adds up to quite a lovely listen, since the songs are, after all, intrinsically charming. But the proceedings are at times so serene that This Too Will Pass functions more as the perfect accompaniment to a night driving alone in deep thought than anything that really requires an active listen. The album is just so uniform in its beauty that tracks simply blend into one another, leaving their only hope for becoming at all distinctive as Zach Braff's use of them in a movie as the perfect background piece to a reflective character montage. Extra points though for the incredible cover art.

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