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PAUL BRILL - Harpooner
| Slant Magazine | | pening with a crescendo of sound that's like the contents of a junk drawer crashing to the floor, Harpooner, the fourth album from NYC-based singer-songwriter Paul Brill, gives a first impression that it might play out as some Matmos-style avant-garde noise-pop. Instead, the album's first song, "Consanguine," quickly strong-arms the chaotic sounds into something that's recognizable as the percussion track for a meticulously composed modern folk song. ...full text |
| | CokeMachineGlow | | A messy room is a happy room. Paul Brill may not have had this dictum passed on to him in 5th grade like I did, but he’s certainly taken it to heart: If Harpooner was a room, you’d hardly be able to find a patch of floor, much less make your way over to the couch in time for The Office. Thankfully, the collage-pop songwriter’s fourth album is a bit easier to wade through on headphones than my apartment. The stuff of recording geek fantasy, these songs are the hypothetical sound of John Vanderslice and Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum getting really stoned in Chad VanGaalen’s home studio and jamming on instruments that don’t exist....full text |
| | Popmatters | | In his evolution from indie Envelope to early solo songwriter discs to the present, Paul Brill has gradually slipped the bonds of rock conventions. His first solo records, dubbed electro-Americana by critics, reflected Brill’s post bidding-war disenchantment with the indie rock world, drawing what seemed genuine at the time—bluegrass, country and folk. His last album, 2004’s New Pagan Love Song, went a step further, spinning synthesized atmospherics alongside organic textures of strings and guitars....full text |
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