Old Ramon
Warm, expansive slowcore that trades the band's signature gloom for golden-hour folk-rock and sprawling electric guitar jams. A graceful, sun-drenched farewell.
April 10, 2001 · Mo Wax
Warm, expansive slowcore that trades the band's signature gloom for golden-hour folk-rock and sprawling electric guitar jams. A graceful, sun-drenched farewell.
April 10, 2001 · Mo Wax
Old Ramon feels like the first deep breath after a long, cold winter. While Red House Painters built their reputation on the stark, skeletal misery of their early 4AD releases, this final chapter finds Mark Kozelek stepping out into the light. The music is saturated with a specific kind of late-afternoon warmth, the kind that suggests that while sadness is inevitable, it can be lived with. It is an album of immense patience, where songs are allowed to stretch out past the ten-minute mark, not out of indulgence, but because the mood is too comfortable to leave.
How does Old Ramon sound next to the rest of Red House Painters's catalogue?
The writing leans far further into love romantic than the rest of the catalogue.
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