Editorial Reviews
Arches and Aisles
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Amazon.com's Best of 1998
With its loping, chunky, buzzed-out-bliss guitar line and distorted-vocal-loop tracking nestled in organ groove, plus chim-chim-cherie chimey vibes and tight snare, "Greetings from the Sugar Lick" is one of 1998's most alluring repeat-play songs. A hyper-rich offering in a less than frugal year, the Spinanes' Arches and Aisles marries the smart-assy punk sass of Manos with the brittle delicacy and spaciousness of length of Strand to make Rebecca Gates's finest yet. --Paige La Grone
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Imagine an old, gauzy picture of an ex-lover, or a fuzzy childhood memory of a secret hideaway, or maybe the last cigarette you smoked before quitting (the first time). Arches and Aisles, a continuation of the musical territory the Spinanes charted on their last release, "Strand," inspires those kind of personal, evocative recollections in its simmering but subdued tonal structures, and the Suzanne Vega-like vocal restraint of lead singer-songwriter Rebecca Gates. There's a passion on... read more