- Album
- ETHIO
- Label
- Sonic Ritual
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- About:
- By the time musician and painter Steven Dayvid McKellar had transferred to paper the host of ideas, images and phrases that would become "ETHIO," he'd filled a wall of his writing room with yellow Post-It notes. As if plotting out some vast conspiracy, he'd profiled a set of characters, placed them in uniquely American settings, commenced drawing connections.
McKellar's solo debut after establishing himself as founder of the acclaimed rock band Civil Twilight, "ETHIO" is a kind of musical manifestation of his conclusions. A streamlined set of songs driven by warm, precisely arranged synthetic and acoustic tones, its eight songs celebrate not only melody and rhythm, but the space and silence among the measures.
McKellar earned his first attention as the founder, singer and principal songwriter of Civil Twilight, whose acclaimed trio of albums starting in 2010 propelled tours performing with Florence + The Machine, Smashing Pumpkins, Silversun Pickups, Jimmy Eat World and more. In 2016, Civil Twilight (which also features McKellar's brother Andrew) announced it was going on hiatus.
Nearly four years later: "ETHIO." Written, recorded and performed by McKellar, it's an album as striking for its musicality as for its lyricism. Songs pulse and hum, driven by a sonic palette that's as precisely arranged as his writing.
We're bombarded with big questions daily: What does it mean to be a moral person in an increasingly immoral system? What, exactly, is patriotism? Who are "The People," and how can the powerful so easily to divide them?
With "ETHIO," Steven Dayvid McKellar tangles with these ideas and more. The result is a singular work, one that, both musically and lyrically, captures the essential confusion of our times.
- Duration
- 03:01:35
- Size
- 8.22 Mb.
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