Pushing above the music like a blast of winter wind comes lyricist/melodist Lynn Canfield whose rapturously chilly voice breathes tunes (which) intensely describes the hills and valleys of her emotional landscape with clinical simplicity - until a wildly romantic odd-angled flash of memory adds a dash of symbolism to her gleefully neurotic lines. The music of Henry Frayne and Steve Jones splits into tunes where silence is an active partner to the sparse, delicately repetitive guitars, floating and ringing minimalistic keyboards, and basses that plunk like tolling bells. There's no denying kinship here with the merry groups of 4AD. Originally recorded on four-track and eight-track tape largely in home settings, Jones' 2023 remaster not only cleans up the sound but also reveals nuances not heard on the original release.Īn outfit dedicated to funeral tempos and prettily wafting melodies that slowly and sexily intone over spacey synthesizers. Ranging from the straight-ahead rock of "Sweet Revenge" to the wistfulness and wintery "After the End" and “Crystal,” the variety of styles fits nicely with the late-80s music of the Cocteau Twins, Cowboy Junkies, Lanterna, Low, and Durutti Column. The surest - and for me the only - way to write is to write what is definitely in you." “I'm talking about facts that happen to me on a daily basis, but it's never planned, it's not a conscious thing. “They're almost all very personal lyrics,” noted Lynn Canfield in a 1987 interview with Italy’s Night Circle fanzine. Finding their musical footing on RADIO CAROLINE, Area explored gentle spirals of emotive, fragile moods at once sad and beautiful. On their second release and first vinyl LP, they merged the seductive, breathy voice and lyrics of Lynn Canfield with the radiant guitar and delicate synth inventions of Henry Frayne and Steve Jones. With the placement of RADIO CAROLINE's “Head Above Water” in HULU’s Cruel Summer (Season 2, Episode 6, July 3), Projekt releases this remastered edition with two never-before-heard bonus tracks.įormed in 1986 in Champaign-Urbana, IL, Area was an enigmatic dream pop trio quickly hailed as the midwest’s answer to England’s 4AD Records. Hometown (1987): Champaign-Urbana, Illinois RIYL: Cocteau Twins, Cowboy Junkies, Lanterna, Low, Lone Justice Genre: Dream Pop, College Rock, Alternative, Ethereal
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