New Release Tuesday: Bill Callahan


Bill Callahan Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle (Drag City)

Right away on "Jim Cain," it's hard not to notice the less angular and gritty approach on this record compared to Woke on a Whaleheart. There's a bit of ethereal mist in the air, misty horns and strings swirling about, but since this is a Bill Callahan record, things get a bit darker (and proceed that way) until the end. He's singing about dreaming and waking to an empty room, imagining a woman who may or may not be there, asking for a handbook on mental clarity and noticing the birds have nowhere to land -- everything is in the sky, a mind, a cloud. It's "Too Many Birds" that sounds the most Callahan; perhaps because the arrangements seem to have taken a siesta, giving way to Harris' unmistakable chirping hi-hats and a distant moody violin. The song could be a reprise to "Sycamore," a steady slow dance beat holding up a soaring and diving vocal and singular string. Read more here.

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I thought Big Business's release wasn't due until May. Sooper cool.

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