Elizabeth Anka Vajagic
Stand With The Stillness Of This Day
Rare & Collectible Vinyl Records

2004 180gm Original Housed In A Textured Jacket. LP Appears Glossy. Enlisting Some Of The Most Recognized Hired-Hands From The Montreal Community, Including Sam Shalabi, Godspeed's Efrim Menuck, And Silver Mt. Zion's Beckie Foon, The Record Works As A Suite Of Paceless, Funereal Death-Dirges Built Around Sparsely Strummed Guitars, Layers Of Cello And Piano, And All The Background Dissonance And Distortion You've Begun To Expect From A Constellation Release. When It Works, It All Sounds Chillingly Evocative. On "With Hopes Lost", Foon's Cello Weaves Around The Space Between Each Slow Guitar Chord, As Vagajic's Voice Bellows The Bruised Refrain, "Let It Go Now, Before Your Hopes Get Lost;" Efrim Menuck Echoes The Sentiment On Backing Vocals, And Inserts A Sublime Jazz-Piano Line. Maybe It's Just Menuck's Inclusion In The Line-Up, But You Can't Help Thinking That This Baroque Chamber-Folk Was The Sound He Was Striving For On This Is Our Punk Rock.