Ringing out in silence, a lone guitar starts PCH 1988 the first song from PLANT MAGIC MAN’s RAINY SEASON (recorded in Janurary 2010). Utterances, and creaky shutters collide, building to the choral chant of “Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie” rolling under the main lyrics of the song while off kilter drums sound off, along with echoing xylophone to create a layer of sweet, almost juvenile chaos.
RAINY SEASON continues to demonstrate the evolution of PLANT MAGIC MAN, as it marries the acoustic guitar, piano, and found audio King’s Parade era sound, in a collection of tight pointed songs, were composition and song writing rises to the fore front, while still allowing for the sonic experimentation that so obviously interests the PLANT MAGIC MAN. In short the album finds PLANT MAGIC MAN looking back.
EARTH MAKING SOUNDS is a sweet folk inspired love song, that is elevated by an outstanding dreamy keyboard riff that runs through the song, connecting the earnest, most straight forward, and perhaps tender lyrics to date in the Plant Magic Man catalog.
The tribal beat of FUNNY MAN, collides with canned laughter and a onslaught of whirling found audio while the guitar stubbornly plucks it’s notes, and eventually pianos pound out sharp accents to the rhythmic song. The short song, acts almost like an experimental interlude to bridge the gap to ZOE, a song that pairs nicely with PCH 1988. Lone guitar notes ring out above the fray of sounds that interact nicely in chaos until the song is pulled into a twist that creates a jaunty rhythm that wraps up the song in a left turn.
Finally the eponymous track starts off as if the album will end on an experimental, Gospel Noise Choir type mood-setting closer, until nearly a minute in that a deep, distant beat drums up the maracas and cascading rain like sounds that lay the groundwork for thin wiry vocals crooning over it all.
Coming in at less than 14 minutes the album, acts as a kind of recapitulation, a perfect synthesis of past and future Plant Magic Man, a successfully varied outing that sets a high mark, and again teases at what’s yet to come.
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