“And when he looks down, a sparrow is nesting as if in the crook of a tree…Its high, sweet trilling goes out among the sleeping passengers, drawing each breath into its praise. My father knows he is as much this song as anything else in his life.” So begins Rodney DeCroo’s dreamlike journey into the spoken word genre, surely one of the more challenging styles of music for a wide audience to appreciate. DeCroo however, a prolific Vancouver-based musician and writer, foregoes any doubt and throws himself into the abyss, notebook in hand.
Allegheny, his sixth album, and first foray into the realm of spoken word, recounts a deeply existential and personal path through DeCroo’s grey and green-toned youth, which he spent growing up in rural Pennsylvania along the apparently putrid cavity of the Allegheny River.
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White Lung
Sorry (Deranged)
Review by Coleman Ingram
In a recent interview with Exclaim, White Lung frontwoman Mish Way says their new record Sorry is a more melodic venture for the Vancouver weird-punk foursome, and that there are distinct possibilities of fan alienation. Having wowed audiences across the country and beyond with their 2010 full length debut, It’s The Evil, there has certainly been some anticipation building for the next chapter. That said, if there are any self-professed White Lung fans out there that can’t get behind this latest output, they may need their hearing and/or attitudes checked.
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