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San Fransisco Weekly
May, 2002
... From the chilling thunder of 1991's Wings of Joy to the dank luxurious
orchestrations on 1995's Tradgedy of Orestes and Electra to the nearly
conventional assault of 1997's Population Four, siblings Jim and Alison
Shaw have left their dreamy feather marks on every style of music they've
approached. Concepts that might seem pretentious in other hands sound as
comforting and accessible as childrens sandboxes in theirs. Last years
Future Songs, Cranes most intimate album to date, was recorded in Jim's
home without the added distraction of other musicians. Jim plays every
instrument, creating ocean-sprayed soundtracks and tender alien nursery
rhymes over which Alison's tiny tinsel-toned voice floats like a specter.
The Shaws consider this their sunny record, which shows you how far from
California Portsmouth actually is.
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