Eternity of Dimming

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All Music Guide - Steve Leggett
Michigan-based folk-country band Frontier Ruckus has a sound that is oddly lush, and yet somehow sparse and elegantly simple, the way a river moves through different landscapes when seen from above, calm and tranquil, but underneath every molecule is in motion. Led by the songs and singing of Matthew Milia, the band's songs are all about a kind of artful, literary nostalgia, remembering places, conversations, important meetings, and partings, all set against the geography of Michigan. Yes, this is a Michigan band, but Milia sings about his home as if it were standing in for the experience of growing and living anywhere, a kind of personal Spoon River Anthology as done by ...
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All Music Guide - Steve Leggett
Michigan-based folk-country band Frontier Ruckus has a sound that is oddly lush, and yet somehow sparse and elegantly simple, the way a river moves through different landscapes when seen from above, calm and tranquil, but underneath every molecule is in motion. Led by the songs and singing of Matthew Milia, the band's songs are all about a kind of artful, literary nostalgia, remembering places, conversations, important meetings, and partings, all set against the geography of Michigan. Yes, this is a Michigan band, but Milia sings about his home as if it were standing in for the experience of growing and living anywhere, a kind of personal Spoon River Anthology as done by early R.E.M., say, with a sad lilt and a yearning for the ghosts of the past to make sense. This set, a sprawling 20 songs spread over two discs, is wonderfully unified, with a ghostly, flickering soundscape playing out behind Milia's sad but still reaffirming singing. This isn't rocking dance music (although you'll still tap your feet). It's more like a kind of back-porch twilight session that works because it's telling a story, an intertwined story of growing up in Southeast Michigan, coping with everything that comes with that, that comes with growing up anywhere at all. This is Americana wrought with the vision of a poet, intelligent and lyrical but not unnaturally so. Engineered and produced by Jim Roll at Backseat Productions in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Eternity of Dimming is a beautiful, nostalgic (in the best meaning of the word) hymn to time and place, a long suite of songs that falls together like a wonderful quilt of memories.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 2/12/2013
  • Label: Quite Scientific
  • UPC: 804297903880
  • Catalog Number: 38
  • Sales rank: 24,982

Album Credits

Performance Credits
Frontier Ruckus Primary Artist
Jim Roll Bass Guitar, Moderator
Brian Barnes Bass Guitar
Michael Nau Background Vocals
Matthew Milia Acoustic Guitar, Harmonica, Piano, Bass Guitar, Electric Guitar, Vocals, Vocal Harmony, Group Member
Brennan Andes Bass Guitar, Double Bass
Zachary Nichols Clarinet, Piano, Trumpet, Bass Guitar, Alto Horn, Melodica, Saw, Tubular Bells, Stylophone, Vocal Harmony, Group Member, Hammond B3
Ryan "Smalls" Etzcorn Percussion, Tambourine, Bells, Timpani, Vocal Harmony, Group Member
Anna Burch Vocal Harmony
David W. Jones Banjo, Bass, Dobro, Bass Guitar, Tubular Bells, Vocal Harmony, Group Member
John Hanson Bass Guitar
Aaron Apsey Viola
Technical Credits
Glenn Brown Mastering
Jim Roll Engineer
Frontier Ruckus Producer
Matthew Milia Composer, Liner Notes, Artwork, Concept
Zachary Nichols String Arrangements
David W. Jones Composer
Keith Kinnear Engineer
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