Rip Through the Hawk Black Night

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Total Tracks: 10   Total Length: 45:02

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Fragile Vulnerable Beauty

ProgNClassicaLover

The AMG review above may seem inadequate but it really does as well as it can to explain this. I'd only add Robert Wyatt and Supertramp as points of reference. What I think Make a Rising achieves is a fragile, vulnerable kind of beauty that can only be created in an elusive way, because it's really only in your mind. This music is emphatically NOT experimental. There's no empiricism here. They clearly left their experiments off the final record and what remains is exactly what was intended. The final result is totally unique and original. This is what independent music is supposed to be all about.

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Coming out of the same Philadelphia underground music scene that spawned such bands as Man Man, Need New Body, and An Albatross, Make a Rising is certainly not your average, run-of-the-mill rock act. Although it’s tempting to categorize the group as “experimental” (especially since their songwriting is completely unpredictable, where random orchestra blasts and musical detours come and go), it’s not a cut-and-dried case, as Make a Rising also specialize in penning alt-pop ditties. Picture an amalgamation of Captain Beefheart, Sun Ra Arkestra, the Beach Boys circa Pet Sounds, Radiohead, and the Flaming Lips, and you’d still only be touching the tip of the iceberg. The quintet’s full-length debut, Rip Through the Hawk Black Night, was originally recorded in 2003, sold at shows in 2004 (during which time it was named as one of the year’s best by the Philadelphia City Paper), and given a proper domestic release via the High Two label in 2005. Strap yourself in and get prepared for a wild and wooly sonic ride, especially on such standouts as “Look at my Hawk” and “Lovely It May Seem.” Make a Rising is certainly not your average band, and as expected, Rip Through the Hawk Black Night is not your average rock release. – Greg Prato

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