Released October 11, 2005 First Light's Freeze
(2005) In The Vines
(2007 Release date 11 October 2005 Genre Psychedelic folk | Length 33:25 Artist Castanets Label Asthmatic Kitty Records People also search for In the Vines | |
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First Light's Freeze is an album by Castanets, released on October 11, 2005. Ray Raposa described the recording of the album as 'on some the interludes between tracks we had like seven people on them so that is half of the credits right there. But most of the tracks are Rafter [Roberts], Sufjan [Stevens] and I doing lots of overdubs'. The album features contributions by Chris Schlarb and Daniel Carter.
Contents
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Critical acclaim
Brian Howe from pitchforkmedia.com described the album as ' stringing together disembodied fragments of gothic Americana with brief, freaky interludes', while Heather Pares finds the themes of 'war and friendship' expressed through 'sparkling nighttime laments'. David Bernard in popmatters.com found the album 'consistently captivating' while 'many tracks hum with electronics and crawl along at a codeine pace'. Grigsby of tinymixtapes.com praised Raposa's writing as '[his] strength might lie in melancholy pop songs, and at that, he might be peerless'. Matthew Ozga of prefixmag was less impressed calling the album 'a real snooze musically' while charactersing Raposa as a 'relentless obscurantist'.
Track listing
All tracks written by Raymond Raposa.
Personnel
As with the previous release Cathedral, contributors as simply listed as 'performers' without indicating their specific role.
The album was mixed and mastered by Ero Thomson and Rafter Roberts.
Songs
1(The Waves Are Rolling Beneath Your Skin)0:28
2Into the Night4:03
3A Song Is Not the Song of the World3:57