Organ Magazine make Viking Moses Album of the Week

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ALBUM OF THE WEEK

VIKING MOSES – Crosses (Poptones) – Oh I wish I didn’t have to do this, the last thing I really need to do right now is to have to dare think about what might come or a need to run or question ending what has begun or to try and write words here (before the rise of the sun). I’d rather just lie on my back and let it move the whole world and leave you to hear it from someone else – this is such a beautiful, strong powerful simple glorious soothing calming album and the last thing I need to have to do is to have to put it in to words. 
Such a strong delicate fragile confident thing. I’ve had Crosses for about a month now, I’ve played it pretty much every day, gentle fingers pressed, another whole world window (not staring back this time). It’s been on repeat for hours and hours today and I still have no idea how to tell you about it, and I’m nowhere near tired of it (and I don’t think I ever will be tired of it). Truth is, I’d rather just cop out and look, it’s late, the sun will be up soon, I don’t have enough hours in the day as it is, I’m tired, we’ve been playing tracks on the radio for you, we chased the video down for the TV show last week, we have in on again this week. I could sing about fishes and honey bees and waltzing on the world and night hours heading for the coming day and watching as the boats move along if you really wanted, do I really have to write about it all as well? 

Break my pride and all its forms, push away all doubt and fear and let Viking Moses install in their place the beauties of faith and comfort. And those simple piano bits when she’s home and I’m delighted. Viking Moses aka Brendon Massei makes cleaver simple minimal freak-folk (I really didn’t want to call it freak-folk, we’re dancing around architecture again) Americana gospel (and Michael row that boat ashore) with quiet piano notes that celebrate the silence between the sounds almost as much as the strong-quite sounds themselves – delicate acoustic guitars and fragile atmospheres and coats of many colours sewn together by hand - so full of stories. Music and sounds and songs and lines to totally abandon yourself in. We’ve heard talk of white noise and free jazz when he’s live, and yes you can hear all that in the quiet delicate silence and the smiles waiting until you come home, no noise here though, this is all very very peaceful and all so very easy. 

A childhood in the Ozarks, an upbringing in Las Vegas with Leonard Cohen and Kurt Cobain and Dolly Parton and banjos and a stint with Devendra Banhart’s band and garlands of flowers and Golden Apples of The Sun. Crosses is stripped down beauty and less is far far more. Crosses is almost primitive, Crosses is so so full and he couldn’t get any more in there even if he wanted to – the silence is packed and bursting. Every bit of silence and scratchy guitar and booming whispered word is packed with so so much hope and love and smiles and things so wholesome and beautiful and blessed to be here on this floor and no, I have no idea how to tell you why I like this album so much. An unrighteous wait for a beat of a heart and I knew right from the start.

Hey look, forget all that, what I meant to day was - simple delicate uplifting Americana and (freak) folk for Elliott Smith, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Beck, Devendra Banhart fans, go enjoy, it’s special. Interact with Viking Moses here - http://www.myspace.com/vikingmosescrosses and here http://www.myspace.com/vikingmoses

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