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I will admit to being a cheap ass when it
comes to buying music. I'm not loyal to my online retailers
now that I'm no longer scouring the used bins for CDs at Moby
Disc or getting those Super Saver stickers on my cassettes.
So along came this album for $1.99 on Amazon and, like a dog
to a bone, I had to buy it after reading so many glowing reviews.
Granted, it didn't sound totally up my alley, and thus the willingness
to purchase it only after it had been marked 80% off. This one
is certainly a grower--with multiple listens never wearing on
my eardrums or boring me despite the relative mellowness and
flat bass, voice, drum machine approach. Something about it
reminds me of that one Cowboy Junkies album that half the world
and I owned back in '88. It could be the slightly lazy singing
style of the female lead, but the sparse, modern production
also has the more familiar feel of bands like The
Blow and Dirty Projectors.
Though this stuff is way less jarring and grating and certainly
has a darker edge. There are some quirky moments that I really
do enjoy here, but there are also moments where the sparse nothingness
feels more like they don't really understand musicianship than
intentional spots of open space. This is a late night album
to be sure. Maybe this generation's "in the Air Tonight" (minus
the drum solo, of course). |
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