Canopy Glow [Vinyl]
Vinyl LP release. 2009 sophomore release. Canopy Glow’s opening salvo, ‘Noni’s Field’, introduces straight away the topic of death. Among lush pile-ups of Pet Sounds harmony and Sung Tongs texture, Anathallo’s Matt Joynt and Erica Froman sing to the rafters. It’s a surprisingly beautiful rendering of life’s most feared result: calm and considered, yet wide-eyed in approach, and colored by kaleidoscopic detail. Canopy Glow could be described just the same.
While the record itself is very good, the package as a whole is very disappointing While the record itself is very good, the package as a whole is very disappointing. The record comes in a flimsy folder of thin, glossy paper and not the cardboard jacket you’re used to seeing. There is nothing but a short strip of folded up paper along the bottom of the folder to hold the record in. Because of that packaging choice, it cannot be shrink wrapped which means it comes loose in a plastic sleeve from which my record came sliding out and hitting the floor as soon as it was removed…