Description
On his first song-oriented album, the Arcade Fire’s multi-instrumentalist and composer-in-residence folds folk music and dissonance into delightful odes to nature’s pleasure and power. It’s a perfect melding of meditational psychedelia and British Isles folk. It is calm, complex, gorgeous, and as multi-layered as a million years of earth-rock formation constantly changing; ambitious, but delicate all the same. Ten years ago, at the end of Arcade Fire’s first tour of Japan, Parry took to a sabbatical at a monastery on the edges of an ancient forest. The deafening silence and gentle roar of nature somehow reminded him of his late father’s folk band, who figured prominently in his upbringing. The whole experience was largely responsible for this collection of songs.
Quiet River of Dust Vol. 1 is a mind-blowing and extremely powerful record filled with strong songwriting and production touches that show Parry at the top of his game. A truly effortless collection of songs worth revisiting for years to come.
