(2018) The Olympic Symphonium - Beauty in the Tension
Review: With Beauty in the Tension, The Olympic Symphonium return with another dreamy, low-key folk gem. The New Brunswick-based quartet’s fifth studio album marries rich, acoustic instrumentation — “In with the Camera” is a stunner — with conversational songwriting. Recorded over six days at Riverport, NS’s Old Confidence Lodge studio, the ten tracks here wash together and wander along in a cautious haze. See “Thanks a Lot,” “Careful,” “Look at Her Now,” or the decidedly unfunny “Comedy.” Nick Cobham, Kyle Cunjak, Dennis Goodwin, and Graeme Walker have mastered the art of rural Zen — this time around with a more fleshed out alt-country sound. “The candles are out/ But the smoke remains,” they conclude. And Beauty in the Tension fills the space with sound they also enlisted vocals from Nova Scotia’s Jennah Barry and additional instrumentation from Michael Belyea (Jenn Grant), Tim Crabtree (Paper Beat Scissors) and composer Drew Jurecka. All the pieces come together for a beautiful listen.
The slow drum beat into the opening track, “Coat of Arms,” leads to a subtly harmonized song that questions family origins — “When drawing a coat of arms/ what do we include?” asks Walker, before answering, “The face of a nation/ the nation is you.” “Glory of Love,” the followup track by Cunjak, is a meandering ode to Chicago’s power ballad of the same name, though the Olympic Symphonium original is a twangy, detailed list of travels far from home (a world of “primary colours and secondary hues”).
“In With the Camera” is a mid-album instrumental that forces a much appreciated slow-down before heading into the post-party slink of “Lost in the Party” (“The candles are out but the smoke remains/ there’s icing smeared on the window panes,” sings Goodwin). The final song is a bit deceptive, as the quartet starkly sings the track’s title, “Choral Voices,” together before the finger-picking comes in at nearly the minute-mark, and a nod to Bob Seger’s “Turn the Page” emerges. Each song is a disparate part, adding to a whole that makes complete sense.
Tracklist: 01-the olympic symphonium-coat of arms.flac 02-the olympic symphonium-glory of love.flac 03-the olympic symphonium-thanks a lot.flac 04-the olympic symphonium-comedy.flac 05-the olympic symphonium-the middle.flac 06-the olympic symphonium-careful.flac 07-the olympic symphonium-in with the camera.flac 08-the olympic symphonium-lost in the party.flac 09-the olympic symphonium-look at her now.flac 10-the olympic symphonium-choral voices.flac
Summary: Country: Canada Genre: Indie-Folk
Media Report: Source : CD Format : FLAC Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM Bit rate mode : Variable Bit rate : ~726-886 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz Bit depth : 16 bits
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