it's about three and 1/2 minutes into archer prewitt's cheap rhyme, off of the absolutely wonderful wilderness album that we have a similar moment to the lambchop bassline pointed out in the last post. again, the song resolves itself into a trumpet climax; i must admit to a weakness for trumpet climaxes.

i also noticed that despite the amount of attention i pay to archer prewitt's albums, esp. the last two(wilderness and three), i've never focused on the lyrics. i spend time on the arrangements, which are resolutely precise and wonderful. so much mellotron. i'm a little worried to spend time with the lyrics, because i'm sure they're obtuse and tossed off. it helps that he doesn't enunciate very well.

wilderness is one of the albums that i've anticipated so much that i took it off of the interweb, along with low's the great destroyer and saint etienne's tales from turnpike house. i left the mountain goats' the sunset tree alone, waiting to pick up a legit. copy before hearing it.

the sunset tree is an interesting case. it took, oh, three tries before i was feeling it and enjoying it. at first i though he'd lost it. then i thought it was worthwhile, but too pat, to easy, and not half as full of urgency and pacing as we shall all be healed. then i acknowledged that nothing will ever match up to how i felt initially upon getting we shall all be healed, and that i should try to find what i can in the sunset tree. and, naturaly, then i got it. there are still parts that i don't completely get(lion's teeth, for one, and some lines in you and your memory), but others are so completely incredible. dinu lipatti's bones and pale green things hit for me, and the rest of the album followed. it's still a work in progress, mind.

i picked up the reissue of sandy denny's the north star grassmen and the ravens along with the sunset tree. it's already soundtracked to a day we spent in chilliwack recently. once i learned t0 skip the stilted awful rockabilly numbers, the album made sense. next time around, especially, is instantly familliar. i've been trying to remember where the piano line has been reused, and i'm sure it has, but i just can't find it.