Kim Cooper (1)
Auteur de Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Kim Cooper, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
Œuvres de Kim Cooper
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- female
- Professions
- magazine editor
Membres
Critiques
Listes
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 470
- Popularité
- #52,371
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 7
- ISBN
- 37
This is more a biographical than an interpretive essay, surveying members, happenings, recording and rehearsals, some songwriting and touring, and the album's reception. There is a little on lyrical interpretation and sonic descriptions, but Cooper consciously limits this. The reference to Anne Frank's diary as the central motif was enlightening, I'd caught lyrical references but didn't identify them as key to the song cycle overall. Cooper is a fan and takes it as given that the album is great, that most people reading about it know it's great, but everyone will have their idiosyncratic reasons. This works well for the album and the band, actually, and likewise then for the essay.
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The songs stick to one narrow key, the images repeat and circle back, and to listen is to be absorbed into a singular, heartrending vision. [2]
Cooper doesn't expand on this observation of key, and my listening skill isn't equal to the question of which key that is (or to corroborate it is, in fact, the same key). If it is true, it doesn't translate to the album lacking an emotional arc, despite the Western convention of beginning in one key, shifting to one or more others (never clear to me which others "sound" right and which not), and then return to the tonic. Though perhaps Cooper's statement doesn't preclude the shifting to different keys, so long as each song is rooted in that same key?… (plus d'informations)