"I will follow the diving lines disappearing over the hill / sailing through my open mind / The thought remains unexplained / To get lost again, to pay the cost..."
The pure sweeping beauty of "Diving Lines" by Big Search aka Los Angeles artist, musician, singer-songwriter Matt Popieluch may transcend time but feels seeded from 70's orchestral pop iconography. The falling piano / guitar lines and Popieluch's evocative sad vocal countenance that gives away to drop dead gorgeous orchestrations featuring Oliver Hill (Coco, Pavo Pavo) on strings and I can't help but think of an amalgam of artists like John Cale, Van Dyke Parks with Glen Campbell dropping in an electric lead. That lead break, by the way, dropping in at around 2 minutes and 52 seconds in, is so exquisite, not only conceptually but sonically as well. The totally upfront guitar lines with touches of delay, the surfy Dennis Wilson-esque snare slaps, against swelling orchestral ooohs and aahhs is a masterful defining outro. Kudos to the core writing and such an inspired production by Jason Quever.
"Diving Lines" is from Big Search's newly released album "Animal Cheer". It is a song forever, one that I hope not only is featured on thousands of playlists but ends up in some film scores too.
"Meet a glance from a stranger’s eye
On a train through a countryside
To get away with hands untied
In my escape from paradise"
On a train through a countryside
To get away with hands untied
In my escape from paradise"
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Last spring Big Search released Slow Fascination, his second album for Danger Mouse's 30th Century Records. LA artist Matt Popieluch expands his reputation for twelve-string guitar, bringing in harpsichord, synthesizer and piano to devise his most sonically dynamic offering yet. Guest vocalists including The Shins' James Mercer, Grizzly Bear's Ed Droste and Kacey Johansing further intensify the collection. The album follows Popieluch from the disorienting end of a marriage through a period of nomadic insomnia to a landing point of mid-30’s existential mutiny. Popieluch is a West Coast troubadour known for playing with the likes of Foreign Born, Papercuts, Cass McCombs, Glasser and Sky Ferreira, but performing as Big Search, his music boasts a satisfying semblance to sounds of an earlier time.
Last spring Big Search released Slow Fascination, his second album for Danger Mouse's 30th Century Records. LA artist Matt Popieluch expands his reputation for twelve-string guitar, bringing in harpsichord, synthesizer and piano to devise his most sonically dynamic offering yet. Guest vocalists including The Shins' James Mercer, Grizzly Bear's Ed Droste and Kacey Johansing further intensify the collection. The album follows Popieluch from the disorienting end of a marriage through a period of nomadic insomnia to a landing point of mid-30’s existential mutiny. Popieluch is a West Coast troubadour known for playing with the likes of Foreign Born, Papercuts, Cass McCombs, Glasser and Sky Ferreira, but performing as Big Search, his music boasts a satisfying semblance to sounds of an earlier time.
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