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  The Vicar's December 1, 2005
Written by barrystock
Wife came into the room and asked pleasantly "who is this?" I said "The
Vicar from DGM." "Really? That voice sounds vaguely familiar."
That’s what I think, too, but every time I get a pry bar into the mask, it slips out of my hands.
Two
really good pieces here, the driving bass piano note of ’The Moony
Song" pushing along a voice that’s allied with the strains of R.E.M.’s
Michael Stipe, minus the Athenian accent, and a gorgeous arrangement
that grows and twists like a climbing vine, and there’s a sweet,
slippery something in here that won’t quite be pinned down (the mask
also permeates the music), like something you’ve heard before that’s at
the edge of memory, that you are just always about to remember....
The Vicar is playing with your brain chemistry.
"San
Manuel" has a some musically Liverpudlian genetic material engaged to a
vocal that manages to whisper "Nick Drake" without sounding like him at
all, and it’s over too too soon.
Fantastic.
More, please.
-bs
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