The Scattered Pages
"This Is Where The Story Ends" CD
Three Ring Records
Genre: country rock, folk rock
May 2006 |
This album has two very strongly country songs ("This Is Where The
Story Ends," "Sad Country Song"), which feature the type of warbly Lap
Steel playing associated with the genre, while the other five have a
less overt Nashville flair. "Sad Country Song" is especially touching,
with its delicate instrumentation and sorrowful vocals. The dark
"Apple Sea," meanwhile, is a pretty little folk-treasure with an
off-kilter energetic part somewhere in the middle, and "The Boating
Party" has a strangely subtle melody that breaks into a tense climax
near the end. A lot of this has a notable similarity to Okkervil
River ("The Boating Party" and the OR-style keyboards of "Stately
Man" especially), combining country and folk with a more indie rock
flair, though The Scattered Pages' music tends to be a bit
truer to its roots than that of those other songsters. My impression
of The Scattered Pages all in all is a very good one... with a number
of records out, and Lazy Are The Skeletons coming out later
this year, it seems like this group of folks is really worth the
attention.
MP3s (from threeringrecords.com):
This Is Where The Story Ends
86%
Fun Fact: All three
members of The Scattered Pages were born in the latter half of
1977, which I consider a notable coincidence.
Matt Shimmer
[Vitals: 7 tracks, distributed by
the label, released 2006] |
