{"id":4051,"date":"2015-11-24T13:51:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T18:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=4051"},"modified":"2015-12-04T12:18:27","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T17:18:27","slug":"anna-von-hausswolff-the-miraculous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/anna-von-hausswolff-the-miraculous\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna von Hausswolff <br>The Miraculous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/anna_von_hausswolff-the_miraculous.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4052\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/anna_von_hausswolff-the_miraculous.jpg\" alt=\"Anna von Hausswolff, The Miraculous\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/anna_von_hausswolff-the_miraculous.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/anna_von_hausswolff-the_miraculous-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Anna von Hausswolff\u2019s <i>The Miraculous<\/i> (Other Music) is a sprawling, glittering marvel of texture and architecture. It\u2019s a questing, yearning record of a sometimes quixotic journey to connect with something more.<\/p>\n<p>At the core of von Hausswolff\u2019s new record are three songs topping out at more than eight minutes each. The opener, \u201cDiscovery,\u201d surges out of the gate with three minutes of rippling, overlapping organ drone before drums burst into the foreground. This forward motion splits and flows into echoes and fraying effects before congealing again around a clean guitar and Anna\u2019s silken voice looking for a body to inherit. That voice turns into an exhortation to \u201crun,\u201d the word repeated continuously before morphing into \u201csun\u201d as the track drops into darkness and leaves an invisible tremor. \u201cCome Wander with Me\u201d starts with organ used in a dry, distant church-like manner, blanketing and shadowing Anna\u2019s voice as it moves between her registers like a heat-seeking missile. Sludgy guitars and drums set up a smoke-laden groove and accumulate weight behind that razor-sharp voice as everything continues orbiting, chasing that perfect, specific feeling. This masterful track conveys a real catharsis never quite indulged and a transcendence left ambiguous as it slips out of the listener\u2019s grasp. Nothing\u2019s ever quite wrapped up. The title track plays with drone more fully than anything else here, letting warm tones slowly expand and snowball. Von Hausswolff\u2019s voice dances with that exquisite organ, just on the periphery of one\u2019s ear being able to make out the words.<\/p>\n<p>Of the shorter tracks, \u201cPomperiossa\u201d uses the organ and the voice like sheets of still-cooling glass, shimmering and distorting one another. Dramatic washes of cymbal underpin direct but oblique lines like, \u201cMy heart is sad and ugly. Am I boring you? Am I scaring you? My love is strong.\u201d The narrative is chopped up and upended. This disorientation and shifting grasp of real understanding is used to great effect in the grime-caked \u201cEvocation,\u201d with von Hausswolff singing of \u201cspirits\u2026 coming closer now.\u201d With a loping two-step rhythm, the Nino Rota\u2013esque \u201cStranger\u201d is a clearer picture, but only by degrees. Its more conversational singing still doesn\u2019t give the game away, but ends the record with a sly wink and a more human face than on the great mysteries explored herein.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout <i>The Miraculous,<\/i> von Hausswolff achieves something ineffable and rare in pop music: the album is genuinely mystical and mysterious without platitudes, explanation, or veering into sap. This is a work of immense intelligence that trusts the landscape it\u2019s built and the listener who enjoys it enough to leave parts artfully unlit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna von Hausswolff\u2019s <i>The Miraculous<\/i> is a sprawling, glittering marvel of texture and architecture. 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