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Rachel Taylor Brown - Half Hours with the Lower Creatures
- If horror movies creep you out, then do not listen to Rachel Taylor Brown’s “Hemocult/I Care About You” late at night—it might give you nightmares. The opening track to Brown’s latest album, Half Hours with the Lower Creatures, starts off with some background noise, and then has some female vocalizing that would be in line with music from the new Doctor Who series, and a scratchy male voice saying, “I care about you.” The whole combination is unsettling, but luckily, Brown’s album becomes more traditional—if “traditional” can be used to describe her work—with most of the subsequent songs pairing lyrics and music together. Brown, who is from Portland, Oregon, has had classical training and performing experience, and her soft, clear vocals are nice to listen to and serve as a contrast to her subject matter, which deals with uncomfortable subjects like war, religion, and even Alzheimer’s. On “Abraham and Isaac,” she wonders “Did Abraham / Say anything / To Isaac / Like “I’m killing you today / Better bring a coat / It looks like rain.” Half Hours with the Lower Creatures is as weird, intriguing and different from other albums as its title, which came from a 1918 textbook on marine biology that Brown found in one of her favorite bookstores. The album debuts May 6.
Reviewer: Jessica Chung
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Added: 20-Apr-2008
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