Down colorful hill the 1992 debut release of the san franciscan act is a collection of subtly remixed demo songs slow and sad incantations of isolation and misery along with seemingly undying funeral marches serving as glimpses of reluctantly accepted realizations laments for faded love and dreams lost to the merciless fading of time.
Down colorful hill vinyl.
Alternative rock folk rock indie rock.
Allmusic wrote the group has already reached full maturity.
Overall it sounds almost as if each song was mastered by a different person audio student.
It was the best of times way back when mark kozelek was not awful to his audience and offensive to journalists.
Back when there was a forlorn band called red house painters weaving devastating lyrics in and out of slowcore threnodies down colorful hill was the very first entry into the band s canon and sees kozelek slowly wrangle with gorgeous guitar tones and talk about that first initial.
These lengthy ponderous songs are remarkably evocative portraits of a distinctly tortured psyche mark kozelek forgoes the camouflage of metaphor to lay his soul on the line and the honesty of his craft is both beautiful and disturbing.
Down colorful hill sounds good to me.
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The introduction to the world of mark kozelek one of the finest artists of his generation stereogum down colorful hill comprises six tracks all taken from the bands original demo tape catching the band at their rawest.
The schish voacal distortion is back.
The vocal sounds good.
Released in 1992 down colorful hill is the much praised debut album from red house painters.
With the red house painters 4ad catalogue having been out of print on vinyl for twenty plus years it s high time they were back in the racks pressed up on black 180g vinyl with mp3 download coupons included.
Cant really hear the drums so well.
4ad cad 2014 format.
Lord kill the pain.
Out of print since its release in 1992 down colorful hill is the much praised debut album from red house painters.
Vinyl lp album country.