Yellow Ostrich The Mistress Flintstones Grid and the loping rhythms are

and the loping rhythms are appropriate to these impressions

Forsaking instrumental complexity in favor of richly dense vocals and an otherwise minimal palette

Part of Fires ongoing series of re-imagined soundtracks

while Love No One comments on the vacuousness of modern society

From the sunset serenity of New September Song

Yellow Ostrich The Mistress Flintstones Grid and the loping rhythms areAvailable for the first time on compact disc, the focal point of Yellow Ostrich's magnificent debut The Mistress is Wisconsinnative Alex Schaaf's voice. On The Mistress it gets looped and layered, stretched and manipulated; it's stacked up several high and, most often, it's used as an instrument, fleshing out the empty spaces in his bare, searching songs. The album was originally recorded (largely by Schaaf himself with occasional help from a few