![]() When you have this extreme range in between, the clashing is gone because the two pitches are moving at their own speed. Whenever we experience dissonance in music, it’s because we have two pitches vibrating at a similar speed, but they don’t quite line up and the dissonance we hear is the rub of the two squiggly air clashing with one another. The higher the pitches, the faster the vibration, and the lower the pitches, the slower the vibration. Not to get overly technical, but if you’re unfamiliar with how waveforms and sound in general work, musical notes are simply fast and slow vibrations (or as Adam Neely calls it: Squiggly air). ![]() I believe it was in a masterclass with the vibraphonist Patricia Brennan, where she said pianist Vijay Iyer told her that the way to sound huge on the piano is to play two notes on the opposite ends of the piano (one really low, and the other really high). The baritone guitar and drop tunings are also a great choice, because as I said before, the dark tones of this guitar are an amazing contrast to her high and bright vocals. If you’re familiar with Phoebe at all, you’ll know that her main axe is a Danelectro Baritone guitar, and only recently I realized her use of capos was essentially a way to get drop tunings without having to go through the whole thing, and possibly because of the gnarly huge sounds she gets from that thing. So first, I want to talk about the songwriting, because it’s something really special. This album was also my introduction to Phoebe, and I love it/her so much that when I was adopting a cat, my first choice was a kitten named Phoebe (and yes, I frequently make her listen to Punisher with me to get to know her namesake). ![]() This album is overly dark (perfect for 2020) which is an amazing contrast to her bright and high vocals, which almost feel like sunshine shining through storm clouds. Punisher is Phoebe’s second release, and it certainly made my top albums for 2020 list (there’s no actual list anywhere but more a “oh yeah, that was a great one” mental list). Phoebe f***ing Bridgers has done it (this is also the name of her website) ![]()
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