On ‘Everything, Eternally’, Dead Western – the brainchild of the awesomely-named Troy Mighty – focus their energies inward and focus their every fibre on the low key. From the supple, brush-stroke drumming, the softly lugubrious string arrangements and in particular Mighty’s deep, yawning vocals, ‘Everything Eternally’ is simultaneously bleak and warm.
There are times – especially around the middle of the album, on ‘All I Need is All Around’ – that the crawling pace begins to have a soporific effect and the band sound like they need winding up again, or their batteries replacing. Yet it’s worth sticking with it: the weirdy folk of ‘Collapse’, which finds Troy drag his vocal chords out of his boots to soar, ghostly and haunting.
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His gravelly whisper ploughs a heavy furrow through the dirge-like acoustic arrangement of ‘Gratisphere’. The subdued strings that augment the simple compositions eventually creak toward a redemptive – yet no more uptempo – end on ‘The Beautiful Light in the Day’, which sounds more like a man for whom death brings relief, rather than an expression of joy at the dawning of a new day.
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