In music, bigger is, more often than not, not better. Offerings stands as the rare overtly grand Indie Rock undertaking that doesn't buckle under its ambition. Typhoon have delivered with aplomb.
You should give 'Offerings' its time in the sun. You should give it your full attention, and take it as an experience. It won’t be perfect for every moment, but it will be for the right moment.
Offerings, in its darkest moments, dissolves into a dreamscape. The record at times adopts that lo-fi sheen, where the relationship between sonic palette and subject matter grows stronger. It creates a place for the protagonist to disappear into, while the audience is confronted with the bitter truth -- like studying the ghost of a smile on a dead man’s face.
Offerings is a sprawling, ambitious record; asking a lot of its listeners but offering plenty in return for their patience.
This is a brave, spectacularly bleak record, and is all the better for it.
Within Offerings, Typhoon displays some of their most exceptional work to date. The entire album is richly detailed both in musical arrangement and lyrical composition. With stunning subtlety and an emotionally-investing story, Offerings is such a brilliant album that is almost impossible not to re-listen.
Offerings takes a little patience, but it’s finally rewarding when its charms come into sharper focus.
This record really surprised me with how absolutely massive it is. The influence of Phil Elverum on the vocal style of their lead singer is more than evident. It's like if Mount Eerie were to make Post-rock influenced Alt Rock record. Its full of stunning production and thrilling experimental ideas. There are so many cool moments on this record, really a pleasant surprise.
Favs: Ariadne, Beachtowel, Sleep, Empiricist, Bergeron, Coverings
Least Fav: Mansion
This album is a movement starting with the early stages of memory loss due to age, dementia, Alzheimer's., etc. Lead singer Kyle Morton takes us through a gorgeous process story culminating in the ultimate loss of memory retention and death. The ladder half of the final track, sleep, celebrates the end of life process surrounded by those you love the most cheering and singing. Not every tack on here is as strong as the last so as much as I would love to give this a solid 100 it loses some ... read more
This album compliments itself through each transition in songs and parts. I love typhoons work and this album is no exception, obviously. I hope this magic prevails throughout the years of their future career.
1 | Wake 3:49 | 100 |
2 | Rorschach 4:16 | 100 |
3 | Empiricist 8:35 | 100 |
4 | Algernon 4:18 | 100 |
5 | Unusual 6:17 | 100 |
6 | Beachtowel 3:22 | 100 |
7 | Remember 4:29 | 100 |
8 | Mansion 0:54 | 100 |
9 | Coverings 3:48 | 100 |
10 | Chiaroscuro 3:09 | 100 |
11 | Darker 3:54 | 100 |
12 | Bergeron 2:49 | 100 |
13 | Ariadne 5:52 | 100 |
14 | Sleep 12:49 | 100 |
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