SF Music Club, Take Two - The Albums

LabelKing · Mar 12, 2010

Originally Posted by Dedalus

I'm surprised this album hasn't received more of a response. I am stuck in an airport because AA fucked up w/some delays and connecting flights, so I was feeling a bit ornery when I put this on. This album is excellent overall. It reminds me of early Half Japanese between the weirdness and the saxaphone, except with more consistency.

I was surprised that they had the balls to keep the same tone/pace for mostly the first five songs, but it was enjoyable nonetheless. I felt like it started to drag toward the end, but I feel that way a lot about albums in general. Short listening attention span, I guess. This is up there with Soil and Pimp and James Carr for me as far as SF Music Club recommendations go.

Also, I have to reneg yea on the Antlers. I enjoyed it at the time, but now it seems too 'easy' and formulaic, and I can't picture myself ever listening to it again.

Blurt is one of those bands that release albums with an alarmingly similar sound not unlike The Fall, Pere Ubu or Sparks.

Tokyo Slim · Mar 12, 2010

Originally Posted by Dedalus

Heh, I can only listen to it in a certain mood myself, but it would not be as background music. I think it would just be slightly irritating as background music.

I am usually slightly irritated. I didn't notice.

Dedalus · Mar 12, 2010

Originally Posted by LabelKing

Blurt is one of those bands that release albums with an alarmingly similar sound not unlike The Fall, Pere Ubu or Sparks.
And I suppose it's particularly surprising given that they are known for being experimental and avant garde, when they were so conservative with respect to their own bodies of work. I wonder how much of this was them trying to break new ground and how much was just them being them.

Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim

I am usually slightly irritated. I didn't notice.
They have a topical cream for that.

phildo · Mar 12, 2010

give me xchen's spot. he already picked and if he gets to pick again its just gonna be another lame p4k album.

toothsomesound · Mar 12, 2010

EDIT: just type Shallow Grave mediafire into google, first result should be a mediafire .rar

Apparently people think this guy sounds like Bob Dylan. OK, he does, a lot. And not just his voice, but his whole relaxed and ramshackle approach to folk music that is verbally dense but nevertheless sounds like loose quad-pop. Weirdest thing of all perhaps is that the Tallest Man on Earth isn't from the American plains or deep south; instead, he's Kristian Matsson from Sweden. Let's set that potential authenticity issue aside, however-- lord knows that Dylan himself practiced a hell of of a lot of self-mythologizing-- and focus on the songs, which seem to effortlessly tumble from the speakers and into your brain. As our reviewer and resident Dylanologist Amanda Petrusich put it: "Ultimately, Shallow Graves transcends comparison, which is saying an awful lot, given the popularity of its prototype, and Matsson is a natural-born folk singer-- earnest, clever, and comforting.

Imagine Free Wheelin' Dylan but much better at guitar with a greater knowledge of music, raspier, moodier, and stream of consciousness/impressionistic lyrics that read something like "a [young] Nordic Faulkner as a folk singer".

indesertum · Mar 12, 2010

link doesn't work, but i found a copy on kickasstorrents

indesertum · Mar 12, 2010

also the blurt album

-_- ******* love it. the whiny sax and the screaming is kind of annoying, but the background beats are fuuuuuuuu. soo damn good. reminds me a lot of this african drum and bass music i listened to

the latest album is not my style, but i like it. i dont like his voice tho

thats.mana · Mar 12, 2010

Originally Posted by AndrewRyanWallace

I'll check this out later.

On the Betty Davis record, I just couldn't get into it. Someone said it didn't work and I have to aggree. I haven't listened to the record since but I do remember wanting some tracks to be over sooner

Blurt was obnoxious in a good way.

milosz · Mar 12, 2010

Downloading to give it a shot, but this:

Imagine Free Wheelin' Dylan but much better at guitar with a greater knowledge of music, raspier, moodier, and stream of consciousness/impressionistic lyrics that read something like "a [young] Nordic Faulkner as a folk singer".

is the worst description I've heard since I saw a sticker on a Thursday CD that said they were "The Cure meets <some bad semi-popular post-hardcore bands whose name I've forgotten>"

milosz · Mar 12, 2010

okay, the vocals on "King of Spain" are the most annoying thing I've heard this year. Daaaaaaamn.

milosz · Mar 13, 2010

With a full day's reflection, let me just say, this is truly, truly a terrible album. I'd rather be subject to, I dunno, Brad Paisley or something.

toothsomesound · Mar 13, 2010

Do you dislike folk music in general?

milosz · Mar 13, 2010

Not at all. Love a lot of traditional and traditionalist folk. This guy runs into the same issue as a lot of low-rent alt-country bands - whiny, samey vocals, nothing particularly new to offer. The vocals here are particularly egregious.

Playing an old genre is a tricky proposition, whether that's acoustic folk or hardcore - you've got to embrace the genre while justifying the fact you're still playing it.

TheFusilliJerry · Mar 13, 2010

This is a great album but I agree that description is ridiculous.

toothsomesound · Mar 14, 2010

If you like this guy, search for his live covers of some classic folk songs [Moonshiner, Death Letter Blues, Over The Hills, I've Been All Around This World] on youtube, pretty phenomenal.

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