Naybob Shineywater pens mystic lyrics about rainbows, hologram buffaloes and living in a little tent down by the river — and he's got the hippie bona fides to back it up. With his partner, Rachael Hughes, Shineywater lives in a solar-powered home in New Mexico, where the pair typically craft psych-rock blues albums under the name Brightblack Morning Light. But on the duo's third record, they expand their sound with touches of Muscle Shoals-era soul. Cuts like "Hologram Buffalo" are accented with flutters of reedy saxophones, and the morphine-slow "Oppressions Each" features sensual backing vocals from soul vets Ann and Regina McCrary. Meanwhile, Shineywater sings about dropping out of society: "Always closer to the land," he croons, "and nobody wants oppression." His lyrics are still ridiculously New Age-y — "Keep the spirit clean and let the high times roll," he sings on "Past a Weatherbeaten Fencepost" — yet his airy vocals are so subsumed within sumptuous drones that it doesn't matter. At 50 minutes, Motion to Rejoin's jams drift off into the ether, but that's their whole charm: Surrender to the flow, and you'll never know where the time went.
(Posted: Oct 2, 2008)
Click the play button.
Register or enter your username and password.
Let the music play!
It's FREE.
- Introduction
- Hologram Buffalo
- Gathered Years
- Oppressions Each
- Another Reclaimation
- A Rainbow Aims
- Summer Hoof
- Past A Weatherbeaten Fencepost
- When Beads Spell Power Leaf
![]() |
Your Turn
Advertisement
More CD Reviews
-
Wilco
Wilco -
Rob Thomas
Cradlesong -
The Mars Volta
Octahedron -
Regina Spektor
Far -
Jonas Brothers
Lines, Vines and Trying Times -
Danger Mouse
Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse Present: Dark Night of the Soul -
Moby
Wait for Me -
Dinosaur Jr.
Farm -
Black Eyed Peas
The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies) -
Levon Helm
Electric Dirt
Hear it Now
View
Email
Stumble
AIM
Del.icio.us
DiggThis
Fark It!





- Portions of Album Content Provided by All Music Guide © 2009 All Media Guide, LLC.