Description
What lends Death Vessels Stay Close its unique charm is Joel Thibodeaus voice. He sings in a high register with a clear tone thats beautifully sustained, but with an underlying inquisitiveness thats distinctly childlike. Too pure and focused to run afoul of the Newsom/Banhart haters, its nevertheless an extraordinarily odd male voice. And Thibodeau plays to its strengths, wrapping it around fancy alliterations and using it to blow the dust off of quasi-historical bric-a-brac. Like most of the best folk tunes, few of these tracks make a lick of narrative sense. Thibodeau sings angelically about carcass racks and harpoons, pinking shears and burdock spurs, coining adverbs like pelicanly and sans serif-ly as he zips along. The places where Laura and Meg Baird (of Espers) offer harmony are especially nice treats.
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