Portrait Of David: These Days Are Hard (CD on Racing Junior)

Band: Portrait Of David
Label: Racing Junior
Title: These Days Are Hard

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Band:Portrait Of David
Title:These Days Are Hard
Reviewed By:David McNamee
Date Published:20/01/2002

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Only Scandinavia could have produced Dogma. The place is a cinema in itself, a loose collective of countries thrown onto the planet from an alien galaxy, or perhaps vomited from the Earth. Iceland oscillates between permanent daylight and lightsucking darkness, Sweden has its cabal of esoteric religions, and the ghosts of the old gods are everywhere. Moreover, there appears to be sense of absolute ‘stillness’ to Scandanavia that perhaps lends itself well to the moments of repose and reflection in Dogma filmmaking.

Only Norway could have produced Portrait of David. Their music is so ‘still’ we can practically hear it crystallizing. Not that it isn’t beautiful; a softly-intoned vocal reminiscent of a Scandanavian Blixa Bargeld recites in English a captivating sort of semi-abstract prose (dreams, kites, horses, skeletons; Bill Callahan would adore this) over the most minimal Eno/Satie accompaniment. Ripples of piano and gentle stabs of icy guitar underscore songs which move with the urgency of glaciers, but it all melts into a serene if somewhat unsettling musical landscape.

Perhaps not the most exciting ‘tip for 2002’, but a rare moment of respite in a whirlpool of stardom-seeking vacuity.

Track Listing:

01) Lake
02) Nine Day Wonders
03) Beautiful Flimsy Kite
04) Constant Flow
05) Sweet Thief
06) In The Garden
07) Davids Portrait

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Debut album from Norwegian act whose "music is so ‘still’ we can practically hear it crystallizing" and who have created "a serene if somewhat unsettling musical landscape."

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