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March 24th, 2005
Harris Newman - (Strange Attractors)

Accidents With Nature and Each Other
Ilana Kronick

Of the many charming and remarkable features of this second outing by Harris Newman and company - the expert guitar picking, the tasteful attention to texture and mood, the brusque avant sensibility tempered with warm rustic undertones - it's balance, precarious but definite, that truly elevates this listen. In melodies that permeate wide-open instrumentals, and swift, jarring atonals that fearlessly do so too, Newman has crystallized an acoustic style that's unquestionably out-there, but still entirely with you.


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Welcomed Accidents

Accidents aren't supposed to sound this pretty. Indeed, Newman has crafted his own unique style of playing here, a style notably different from his contemporaries, most akin to M Ward's instrumentals. Usually, Newman is behind the boards, our city's master of mastering, whose company Grey Market Mastering has worked with just about every Constellation and Alien 8 recording act, as well as celebrated exports the Arcade Fire and Wolf Parade. This album sounds nothing like anything he has ever mastered, causing me to wonder from where has he chanelled this bursting energy. From delicate paper chords that break in his hands to the lightning finger plucking of speedy passages where notes blur into each other, Newman covers a spectrum of sound that is surely not accidental.

Dan Leznoff

June 10th, 2005

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