{"id":176,"date":"2016-07-26T15:51:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T13:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tidebound.com\/?page_id=176"},"modified":"2018-04-15T10:59:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T08:59:36","slug":"press","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tidebound.com\/?page_id=176","title":{"rendered":"Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Reviews of &#8220;Black River and Other Bodies of Water&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>From\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/disagreement.net\/reviews2015\/tidebound_blackriver.html\">Disagreement.net<\/a>\u00a0(8\/10):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"review\">\u201cThe songs are mostly all quite astonishing. The opener \u201c<span class=\"song\">Under The Horned Moon\u201d<\/span>\u00a0takes you by surprise with its halting attitude, which is actually quite the modus operandi of Tidebound.\u00a0<span class=\"song\">The Enemy<\/span>\u00a0is a short and angry protest song about the plight that refugees have to go through before they arrive in a safe country, and how people turn their fear into hatred. Some distorted guitar parts underline the artist\u2019s disillusion at many of his compatriots.\u00a0<span class=\"song\">All Love Is Unrequited<\/span>\u00a0comes with a flute part and is simply beautiful, reminding of very early Pink Floyd or Syd Barrett solo endeavours.\u00a0<span class=\"song\">Cities Now In Ruins<\/span>\u00a0is a very sparse track with pleasant backing vocals, and on\u00a0<span class=\"song\">First Morning<\/span>, the minimalist approach goes on, and maybe due to a lack of memorable melody, this is the only track I don\u2019t really get into. The EP ends with\u00a0<span class=\"song\">Black River<\/span>, starting out slow and then ending in an unexpected rousing way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"review\">I am not really that much of an lo-fi indie folk fan, but when it\u2019s done well, I really appreciate it. Dave M\u00fcller did a tremendous job on his first label released EP, and one hopes that more will follow soon. Fans of dark folk music (Mount Eerie, Songs: Ohia,\u2026) will be delighted by this short journey through the artist\u2019s bleak visions.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>From\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gfrock.dk\/tidebound-black-river-and-other-bodies-of-water-ep\/\">GFrock.dk<\/a>\u00a0(4\/6) in danish:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Det musikalske udgangspunkt er folk \u2013 af den mere rugende og ildevarslende slags. [\u2026] M\u00fcller lyder ind i mellem som en reciterende Steen J\u00f8rgensen eller en knap s\u00e5 dybr\u00f8stet Leonard Cohen p\u00e5 EP\u2019ens seks numre, hvor tempoet aldrig bev\u00e6ger sig over det langsomme.<\/p>\n<p>Det er m\u00e5ske ogs\u00e5 der, man kan blive udfordret p\u00e5\u00a0Black River and Other Bodies of Water. Hvis man ikke har t\u00e5lmodighed til de 4-5 minutter lange numre, som ikke kaster sig ud i nogen pludselige temposkift overhovedet, s\u00e5 er man nok skr\u00e6mt v\u00e6k inden man er n\u00e5et fra den dunkelt dr\u00f8mmende \u00e5bner \u2018Under the Horned Moon\u2019 til \u2018Enemy\u2019, der falder som andet nummer \u2013 og er det mest uptempo p\u00e5 albummet.<\/p>\n<p>Holder man ved, er der til geng\u00e6ld noget at hente. For selv om M\u00fcller ingenlunde er begavet med en stor stemme, s\u00e5 fungerer hans reciterende stil, fordi hans vokal s\u00e6ttes godt i scene (ligesom nyere Sort Sol rammer Steen J\u00f8rgensens ru vokal ind, eller f\u00f8rn\u00e6vnte Cohen, uden direkte sammenligninger i \u00f8vrigt). Det g\u00f8res den blandt andet ved det akustiske guitarspil, og s\u00e5 kvindevokalerne [\u2026], der dukker op som n\u00e6rmest overjordiske elementer og sv\u00e6ver omkring M\u00fcller\u2019s vokal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Live reviews<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Review from Gaffa.dk of show with Ill Wicker 21\/6\/2016:<\/strong> <a title=\"Gaffa.dk\" href=\"http:\/\/gaffa.dk\/anmeldelse\/108990\/fra-tagen-ud-mod-stjernehimlen\">Fra t\u00e5gen ud mod stjernehimlen (in danish)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Deres egen stil er ikke helt ulig canadiske Mount Eerie i de hypnotiske akustiske guitarmelodier med en underlig n\u00e6rmest s\u00f8syg melodisk sans, som gennem gentagelse og ekko-effekter bruges til at opbygge langstrakte lydlandskaber. M\u00fcller f\u00e5r selskab af organisten Laura Noszczyk, hvis backup-vokaler tilf\u00f8jer en overjordisk gl\u00f8ds nuance til M\u00fcllers melankolske univers.<\/p>\n<p>P\u00e5 trods af deres enkle musik kommanderer Tidebound alligevel en h\u00f8j grad af koncentration fra publikum simpelthen som konsekvens, af hvilken ren vision l\u00f8ber igennem hele projektet&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0<b>Simon Hesselager Johansen | GAFFA<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Press Kit<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"dgn9LOkUKQ\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/tidebound.com\/?page_id=247\">Tidebound &#8211; &#8220;Black River and Other Bodies of Water&#8221; EP press kit<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Tidebound &#8211; &#8220;Black River and Other Bodies of Water&#8221; EP press kit&#8221; &#8212; Tidebound\" src=\"https:\/\/tidebound.com\/?page_id=247&#038;embed=true#?secret=aqqiV2ZzBu#?secret=dgn9LOkUKQ\" data-secret=\"dgn9LOkUKQ\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviews of &#8220;Black River and Other Bodies of Water&#8221; From\u00a0Disagreement.net\u00a0(8\/10): \u201cThe songs are mostly all quite astonishing. The opener \u201cUnder The Horned Moon\u201d\u00a0takes you by surprise with its halting attitude, which is actually quite the modus operandi of Tidebound.\u00a0The Enemy\u00a0is a short and angry protest song about the plight that refugees have to go through &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tidebound.com\/?page_id=176\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Press&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":29,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-176","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidebound.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidebound.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidebound.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidebound.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidebound.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tidebound.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/tidebound.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176\/revisions\/259"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidebound.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidebound.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}