This has to be one of my favorite albums of '09 right now. Mainly because I've been so bummed that The Microphones became Mount Eerie and had more folk than noise (I just started listening to The Microphones a few months ago). But now M. Pyres, which rose up from the ruins of Castles, has brought that same exact sound back. Except there's less "cool" recording techniques and more noise than the folk, which is great.
Consider Me, Ghost is chock-full of short-term, noisy folk songs made perfect for your attention span. The songs are repetitious, however, making that this album's only weakness. The melodies and lyrics are repeated over and over again in verse-chorus-verse pattern until it reaches its maximum length, which is around 2-3 minutes. The lyrics are mainly about... uh, I don't really know but they are kinda scientific and sound like lyrics Death Cab For Cutie would use in their songs. That is no insult though. They give the songs a somewhat woodsy campfire song feel to them. The music has a somewhat low fidelity, although not low enough to be sent to Siltbreeze, Woodsist, maybe K Records. I'm surprised that Matthew Sage (the main dude behind the release) released this album on his small Fort Collins-based label, Fir Traders Union. The record deserves to be on K or even Sub Pop, in my opinion.
There are six segues on the album, all entitled "Spectrum" and are all numbered as well. They divide all of the songs so you're not sitting there listening to everything saying, "ALL OF THESE SONGS SOUND THE SAME." The Spectrums are all drone tracks; often have field recordings of children playing in a park and stuff like that. You can probably mistake these segues as Belong songs. They do add a good "mixture" to the album because they include the same ambient aspects of what was on his previous EPs plus the songs that were on his myspace four or five months before Consider Me was due. If you haven't noticed what I have said about the *guy* who makes this music, yeah, it's a one man band. Or at least it was. They changed their name to M. Pyres & The Skygaze Family Band. Ooh, skygaze; the new freak folk.
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