Some music is received as such an organically comprised whole that you'd swear it was grown that way in a community garden. Meadow Meadow's Silhouettes is one of these kinds of experiences. Collaborators Peter Darlington and James Green cultivate a vibrantly imaginary grove, practicing an almost spiritual form of agronomy that manifests through their sensitive deployment of electronic effects and orchestral elements to encourage the germination and subtly kaleidoscopic character of their pliant, minimalist indie rock. Theirs is a process that produces an impressionist portrait of warm summer afternoons and mornings bathed in the fair light of dawn. Silhouettes is golden hour music- an energy transfer between you and a celestial body that lends encouragement and support to your very being. The sounds are heavy in contrast but they draw an angelic hew out of any surface with which they interact. A song like "NDO" will emerge into your perception like an unfurling sunflower whose interior possesses a cornucopia of color. Guitar notes caress your ears like brush strokes on a canvass in expressions of a heuristic mystique on "Let Him Go," where breathy lilts swoon as if dancing on currents of pure oxygen. And then there is the dry splash of "Acceptance," a ruminating chinook that will trickle down and through you like cool raindrops sliding off the freshly budded leaves of an old oak tree. Let yourself rejuvenate a little this afternoon with the sounds of Silhouettes.
