Peregrine

Track Listings
 1 Ceremony (Instrumental) (4:17)
2 Woodland Hunter, Pt. 1 (3:16)
3 Here We Are (Family in the Hallways) (3:40)
4 Silas' Knife (4:08)
5 Mountain Halo (4:09)
6 Sunlit and Ascending (4:01)
7 February (3:51)
8 Orange and a Blue (Instrumental) (4:11)
9 Song 3 (5:00)
10 Woodland Hunter, Pt. 2 (4:30)
11 Peregrine (4:06)
12 Fate Delivered (3:53)
13 Clock and the Storm (Instrumental) (5:53)

Discography
Illumination Ritual (2013)
 Middle States (2011)
 Sagarmatha (2009)
 Peregrine (2006)
Two Conversations (2003)
Lost Songs (2002)
Low Level Owl, Vol. 2 (2001)
Low Level Owl, Vol. 1 (2001)
Mare Vitalis (2000)ol. 1 (2001)
Mare Vitalis (2000)


 

Release Date: (March, 21, 2006)
Label: The Militia Group
Producer: John Congelton


December Hotel
Overall Rating:  ++++

(Sunlit and Ascending)

 
Album Review

Without hesitation, I will say that Peregrine will become a standard for emotional post-rock. The Cast are by no means new-comers to greatness. After all, the band delivered a silencing pair of albums, Low Level Owl Volumes 1&2, that are only rivaled by Radiohead's Kid A and Amnesiac, and LN's Dirt Floor Hotel series. In one word...EPIC! But 'epic' is overused and doesn't offer much help to the reader. Peregrine is, at the least, The Cast's return to form, after their emotive Two Coversations experiment on the now defunct Tiger Style imprint.

At most, this is an album of gigantic proportions and unlimited possibilites for the band. I can hardly believe that this album leaves the Owl series in the shadows, but that's the truth. From lush and orchestral instrumentals that break the songs into specific groupings, to the subtle, dark, conceptual lyrics that fuel Peregrine, I cannot hear of nor point out a fault. Chris Crisci may have just penned the recording of his life. These 13 tracks are rich in depth and texture, yet they refrain from noodling and becoming inward. It's as if every song completely contributes and adds to the whole of the recording. If it ends here (which we pray to God it doesn't...ahhh...to think of what may come next?!), we have quite the legacy.

 ~ Garrett Johnson

  

 

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