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01 |
Hidden Lands |
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03:04 |
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02 |
Sack Full of Silver |
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02:13 |
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Yoo Doo Right |
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06:04 |
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The Napkin Song |
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01:31 |
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Americana |
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04:34 |
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06 |
The Ghost |
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03:43 |
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Whirling Dervish |
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05:39 |
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08 |
<Triangle> |
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04:42 |
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Diesel Man |
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03:43 |
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On the Floe |
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04:51 |
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CMJ Review - After the first blast of the lead track "Hidden Lands" blows past, it takes most of the remainder of side one before Sack Full Of Silver really starts to pull you in-only at the final feedback-drenched strains of the anthem "The Ghost," do you realize you are immersed in the unfamiliar windswept landscape of the album's own unmapped terrain. While the Rope seemed to have sometimes been unfairly tagged as sort of slightly more culturally-elevated cowpoke grunge cousins to the Pontiac Brothers, here they present themselves with twice the refinement and ten times the power of any of their earlier efforts, framing their sound with overdriven, heady guitars and understated acoustic touches. Ticking with inner complexity and pummeling with expressive force, the Rope test their limits in both dynamic directions; produced by long-time Rope compatriot and first mate Tom Mallon, Silver stretches this band's horizons and charts new waters, rounding the cape towards points previously unknown and unexplored. Pieces of eight: "Hidden Lands," Can's "Yoo Doo Right," the longer and more majestic "Triangle Song" or "Whirling Dervish," or relax with "On The Floe."
