Artist: Death Vessel
Album: Nothing is Precious Enough for Us
Genre: Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter
Release Date: Aug 19, 2008
Label: Sub Pop
Rating: ****
A wonderful album of modern folk. It is filled with acoustic and electric guitar, piano banjo, fiddle, and a variety of other interesting sounds. Those of you that may dismiss the album from it's title as a cutesy indie album trying to be endearing you are dead wrong. The music here is clearly very honest. And although the album is largely dominated by Death Vessel's soft (and very beautiful) voice, the Joel Thibodeau is not afraid to transition songs into blaring noisy guitars and thundering snares (as in "Bruno's Torso"). The album opens with the incredibly strong "Block My Eye", and although none of the other songs quite stand up to it they are all fairly good to great regardless (although the second half does taper off a bit).
- Block My Eye *****
- Jitterarkadie *****
- The Widening *****
- Bruno's Torso *****
- Obadiah***
- Exploded View**
- Fences Around Field **
- Peninsula ***
- Circa *****
- Belt of Foam **
- Untitled **
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