Carissa’s Wierd - You Should Be At Home Here (Brown, 2001)

Carissa’s Wierd
You Should Be At Home Here
Brown
2001

Rating: 7.5 weird spellings out of 10

Two things initially strike me about Carissa's Wierd – hauntingly beautiful music, and an affinity for really long song titles. The music itself is hard to categorize...you could break down some of it’s constituent parts in the following way – the atmospheric, orchestral feel of Godspeed You Black Emperor! or one of their sister bands, the chilling violin sound reminiscent of Warren Ellis from the Dirty Three, and the male/female vocal dynamic as well as the song pacing of Low. That said, the sound as a whole doesn’t really sound like any of these bands, but would fit nicely in a cd collection of anyone who enjoys these groups. Some of the songs I particularly enjoy on this album are "The Color That Your Eyes Changed with the Color of Your Hair" and 'A Loose Hair Falls Into A Glass of Water Without Ice". See, I told you the song titles were long, and you didn’t want to believe me, did you? Oh yeah, one last thing – the band’s name is intentionally misspelled, so no calls from the grammar police please. Check these guys and gals out if you like a little mellow music to get you through the day.