In the last few years, I've grown enamored of a handful of genres - hip-hop, indie-pop, ambient and most recently, thanks to Greg's brotherly influence, dance music. But I'll always be a folkie at heart, and so it's with great joy and pride that I present to you, dear reader, the year's finest folk album. The Acorn's Glory Hope Mountain is this year's Yellow House or Akron/Family, a shot of something fresh and beautiful that burns into your heart like the fires currently incinerating Southern California.
The Ottawa band's latest is a more straightforward effort than Grizzly Bear's sepia-toned reverb-folk or A-Fam's lo-fi, found-sound weirdness, but it's certainly on par. There are elements of recent Akron/Family here, as on the tribal drumming and quirky percussion of "Crooked Legs," but perhaps a closer comparison is Jim Guthrie's Now, More Than Ever, a not-quite-Sufjanesque collection of slick arrangements and soulful performances.
The Acorn - "Hold Your Breath": mp3
The Acorn - "Antenna": mp3
(Glory Hope Mountain is out now on Paper Bag Records)
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Labels: 2007
posted by David Greenwald @ 8:55 AM 
Comments (3)
wow, that last sentence of the first graf is album sticker material, tell you what
Let me tell you about you. About you and me. About me and what you do and make me do.
See, I don't know you but because of you I went over to itunes and found the acorn album and just bought that shit. I didn't preview. I dint nee to. Just hit the button and figured I'd be okay.
Just because of you.
And no, I'm not kidding.
Fantastic! If you don't like it, I will seriously paypal you $9.
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