Carbeth [Vinyl]

Trembling Bells | Format: Vinyl

Product Details

• Vinyl (April 14, 2009)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Honest Jon's
• ASIN: B001U7FWHS
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #891,305 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I Listed All of the Velvet Lessons

2. I Took to You (Like Christ to Wood)

3. When I Was Young

4. The End Is the Beginning Born Knowing

5. Summer's Waning

6. Willows of Carbeth

7. Your Head Is the House of Your Tongue

8. Garlands of Stars

9. Seven Years a Teardrop

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The Ghost of English Electric Folk Past, May 19, 2009

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Lee Barry "Eclectic Listener" (Indianapolis, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Carbeth (Audio CD)

OK, I'm old enough to remember Nick Drake and Sandy Denny when they were alive, and I read the rave New York Times review of Trembling Bells, bought it, and indeed, it is what the review promised--the second coming of the sort of stuff that Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span and Albion Band used to do. TB's Lavinia Blackwall is a Jackie McShee-type of soprano and the album itself reminds me, not to be too obscure, of "Mellow Candle"--literary, rambling lyrics with a 19th century sort of sensibility, drums, strummed electric instruments and so forth. A trombone gives some nice bass bottom to it. There are, to me, two stand-out tracks, "When I Was Young" and the title track "Carbeth." The latter is truly affecting and wonderful. Among the groups invoked as Trembling Bells' influences in the NYT review was Pentangle, whose "Basket of Light" album still sounds superb, start to finish. Well, this is no "Basket of Light"; I don't find "Carbeth" to be a CD that I can listen to in its entirety, over and over--I quickly began picking my way through it--but parts of it, especially those two tracks, will stand up. It will be interesting to hear their second, if they do one. Nevertheless, if you liked this kind of stuff in the mid-seventies, this debut is worthwhile.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars review for you, June 3, 2009

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Joseph H. Dennis "knownothing" (wilmington, ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Carbeth (Audio CD)

What unusual and fascinating music. Like Sigur Ros is unusual and fascinating. This musis lacks the ethereal quality of Sigur Ros, but that is not a criticism. It is modern folk music, and it is truly unique. Anyone who hates the current popular music should love this music. Would love to hear them live.