Hoffman Estates

Alan Licht, Loren Mazzacane Connors | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 30, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Drag City
• ASIN: B00000G28L
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #288,506 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Hoffman Estates: Here (Comes) Everybody, October 26, 1999

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David Kipp (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hoffman Estates (Audio CD)

On first listening, Hoffman Estates is a dense, gloomy affair: tangled guitar drones superimposed upon which are edgy brass and woodwind motifs. On repeated listening, however, something huge and darkly beautiful materialises out of the murk.

Here can be found a body of work that bears a strange resemblance the sleeping giant of Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake" - a brooding, titanic figure deep in slumber, threatening to wake but never (except for an almighty, adenoidal snore in the grumbling, roaring "Turner's Murder") quite reaching full consciousness.

Alan Licht and Loren Mazzacane-Connors have colluded with Chicago ur-producer Jim O'Rourke and a cast of prolific musicians of the same turf to produce a truly grand record. The guitar work of Licht and Mazzacane-Connors is a revelation, spanning the elegiac, faintly distorted lines of "Slowly, Slowly, Slowly" and "And Everyone 'Neath Their Vine and Fig Tree Shall Live in Peace and Unafraid" and the blaring siren call of "Turner's Murder", while the brass and woodwind lines become more gloriously manifest with each listening.

Play this record while dozing and be conveyed (slowly, slowly, slowly) into a world of giant dark dreams.