I don’t remember how I discovered Emery Reel. I wish I remember who recommended them (if it was even a recommendation!), because I would buy that person a beer. Because …For An Acted Upon Through Diversions is a really great album. I don’t know if the band is still functioning, or if it recorded anything after this one album, but they should really be better known than they are.
Wait, now I’m remembering…I found the album on CD Baby in 2003, around the same time I was searching night and day for a copy of the Teenbeaters CD! I found them myself! I have to buy myself a beer! I really am such a nice guy…
Emery Reel, from Nashville, Tennessee, released what should be a canonic early-aughts Post-Rock album in the year 2003. It’s better than that Explosions In The Sky album from the same year! Huge volume swells! Attention to drone! Yup, this one’s got everything. Just ask Swan Fungus reader Ian (we’ve also been friends since high school, but it’s funnier to just refer to him as a blog reader), who says For And Acted Upon Through Diversions was one of the best music recommendations I ever made to him! He wrote, “[Evan] was obsessed with bands on Constellation, or anything instrumental with lots of crescendos. One day I picked him up to go to Princeton Record Exchange (after sitting in my car for an extra 10 minutes waiting for his slow-ass), and he came outside with a CD-r and exclaimed, “You have to hear thisâ€. We listened to it and of course I was immediately sold. To this day I still listen to this Emery Reel album, and I specifically remember listening to it the night before I took the bar exam in an attempt to calm my nerves.”
So I guess what I’m trying to say is, if you’re about to take the bar exam, listen to this. Ian passed. You will too!
Emery Reel
For And Acted Upon Through Diversions
MediaFire Download Link
Tracklist:
01. They Are Coercing Ideas Into The Mind
02. A New Beginning
03. Hence; Therefore, Again
04. Departure Of Hope
05. Cam’s March
06. His Hammer Is My Axe
07. Uneasy, The Crossing Guard
