Dreamy dissonance is Scottish singer/songwriter Dot Allison's stock in trade, and while her ethereal, reverb-revering sound may read like old news in 2009, Allison is a compelling enough presence to make it sound urgent and alive, if not new. With producer Rob Ellis, Allison has stripped away extraneous gloss and made a variegated collection of sad songs exploring multiple facets of trench-coated, tremolo noir and all falling somewhere on the continuum between pretty-sad and scary-sad. On the p...   [ read more ]

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Exaltation of Larks, Dot Allison's first album since 2002's We Are Science, is a near-total overhaul for the Scottish singer/songwriter, who had been exploring a synthesis of artsy shoegazer pop and trip-hoppy electronica ever since her days as the leader of early-'90s Andrew Weatherall protTgTs One Dove. The chilly synthesizer textures are entirely gone from Exaltation of Larks, replaced by layers of overdubbed acoustic and electric guitars, strings (alternately folksy fiddle parts and o...   [ read more ]

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Exaltation of Larks, Dot Allison's first album since 2002's We Are Science, is a near-total overhaul for the Scottish singer/songwriter, who had been exploring a synthesis of artsy shoegazer pop and trip-hoppy electronica ever since her days as the leader of early-'90s Andrew Weatherall protTgTs One Dove. The chilly synthesizer textures are entirely gone from Exaltation of Larks, replaced by layers of overdubbed acoustic and electric guitars, strings (alternately folksy fiddle parts and o...   [ read more ]

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