1) ROSE QUARTZ (NNAMDÏ Remix)
2) FULTON STREET I (Hether Fortune Remix)
3) FULTON STREET II (Wreck and Reference Remix)
7) FROM OUR BEDROOM WINDOW (E.M. Hudson Remix)
8) FOOTSTEPS AT THE POND (Zeal & Ardor Remix)
9) THERE YOU ARE (HIDING PLACE) (Majetic Remix)
the three in the middle just need something a bit more intense, and the last one egregiously cuts up a rather epic piece of poetry and should not have.
in northern michigan and you ascendant, especially, should have been converted into absolutely demented pieces of sound in ways that could have taken the lyrics to the next level. that remix of rhodonite and grief is really the weakest on the record; it's barely there at all, for a track that could have been....i actually think that the best person for this track really honestly would have been old man jim thirlwell. really. those horns. and, that remix of anxiety panorama comes off as a bad joke.
the rest of it, though, is fairly strong, if never transcendent. to be clear: it could pretty much all be taken to the next level, but the stuff i didn't scratch out is at least workable as starting points.
i'm spending time on this because i actually think this is a format that this band has some potential with - they write multidimensional, complex music that could and perhaps ought to be ripped and spliced. this was a great idea, even if it didn't really execute.
