The Dissolving Room

The Dissolving Room

Editorial Reviews
Summer*Salts, March 2001
There's a certain level of beauty and unironic sincerity here that is rarely matched by bands of this type.

Product Description
Featuring sparse, mostly acoustic instrumentation (lightly augmented by piano, violin, pedal steel, accordion, banjo, cello, and glockenspiel), Shearwater's The Dissolving Room at times evokes musical forebears like Nick Drake and Leonard Cohen as well as indie songwriters like Belle and Sebastian, Smog's Bill Callahan, and Elliot Smith.

Intended as a late-night album in the vein of Drake's Pink Moon, The Dissolving Room showcases the songwriting talents of both Sheff (whose work with Okkervil River has been compared by reviewers to Will Oldham, the Magnetic Fields, and Lee Hazlewood) and Meiburg (who, with his distinctive falsetto, echoes Jeff Buckley and Thom Yorke) in terse, intimate songs about fall, hospitals, hummingbirds, and true crime.

The Dissolving Room

Tracks:

Mulholland
Ella is the First Rider
Grey Lining
Angelina
Sung into the Street
Little Locket
Military Clothes
The Left Side
Not Tonight
If You Stay Sober
Long Ride
This Confiscated House

Album Description

Featuring sparse, mostly acoustic instrumentation (lightly augmented by piano, violin, pedal steel, accordion, banjo, cello, and glockenspiel), Shearwater's The Dissolving Room at times evokes musical forebears like Nick Drake and Leonard Cohen as well as indie songwriters like Belle and Sebastian, Smog's Bill Callahan, and Elliot Smith.

Customer Reviews:

Great music for times when you need quiet.......2002-03-12

Lately I have been in great need for music that indulges my need for solitude, and this album really gives me what I need. It seems not to many people know about this album, but if you are prone to turning everything off and just listening to music then add this one to your plate. There are some string bass and I think cello accompaniments and I guess if you like Elliot Smith or The Rolling Stones "Ruby Tuesday" style music, you will like this...I am not good at comparing this band...they are not exactly like anybody else, but just to give you an idea about what I mean.

Cancerous love songs.......2001-11-24

These songs are so painful and true... His voice is so sweet and full of heartache... This is good stuff. But be warned- it might break your heart.

Finally Some Real Songwriting.......2001-11-02

This is Good Stuff. A little on the mellow side, but these folks can make music.

So beautiful, you'll get the chills!.......2001-05-07

This record is a stunning debut from two of Austin's most talented young songwriters. At once emotional and subdued, the songs float around themes of secret passions, unrest, and always the encroaching shadow of death. The arrangements are sparse and pure, and the lyrics are dreamy and poetic. Definitely check this out if you like Belle & Sebastian or Nick Drake....

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