Anathallo

[Cyrus]

Dave Monroe wrote:

>... Anathallo, a band from Michigan whose songs are
>intricate daydreams, at once self-effacing and
>confident enough to allow some fragility. They're
>changeable structures that might have two tinkling,
>overlapping glockenspiels at one point, chiming guitar
>chords or a brass section elsewhere.
>
>I can't help being fond of a band that calls a song
>"Entropy," explains that it's based on Thomas
>Pynchon's novel "The Crying of Lot 49," sets out a
>joyful, odd-meter guitar riff that gives way to a
>delicate, almost whispered chorus and then, midway
>through the song, has band and audience members
>blowing up balloons to release them on cue....
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/ref/arts/music/lollapalooza2006-journal.html?8dpc
>
>I actually stumbled on these guys playing down the
>block from me one slow night in the 'hood.  Really
>something other than else live, at least ...
>

Thanks once more, Dave, for the beautiful link. It's interesting that 
"anathallo" in Greek means "to re-blossom".

Cyrus