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Elf Power “Creatures”
A member of the Elephant 6 Recording Company (see Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control, Dixie Blood Moustache, etc.) Elf Power is part NMH, part Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie, Postal Service, All-Time Quarterback, etc.). You can tell right off the bat that the influences of Jeff Mangum and the rest of the Elephant 6 crew are going to be heard throughout. The Lo-Fi recording and flawed qualities are more endearing than adventurous, which lends itself to less concerned listening. This would work fine as background music at a party, but deserves much more attention than that. I think I will be adding this album to my collection, as well as giving it a much-deserved 4.5.
Fall “Perverted by Language”
You would think that an album with the first track called “The man whose head expanded” would be good, huh? Well, you (like me) would be very, very wrong. Fall seems to rely on the weird to cover for their lack of musical talent. Their lead “singer” doesn’t (and maybe can’t) carry a tune. He merely talks, speaking the words in a nasally British accent that quickly becomes grating. His vocals are backed by repetitive thumping drums and an occasional guitar. He sounds drunk or stoned, and not in that good Bob Dylan, Conor Oberst, Jeff Tweety way. By far the worst album thus far. A 1 out of 5.
The Reindeer Section “Son of Evil Reindeer”
If Iron & Wine and Azure Ray had a baby it would be The Reindeer Section. Beautiful songs fade into one another throughout this album. The soft vocals of a Sam Beam-esque lead singer are perfectly accompanied by even softer background vocals. Dance music it surely is not, but for what it is (haunting, somewhat depressing melodies) it is nearly flawless. The name of their band (and the album for that matter) doesn’t fit at all with the style of music that they perform, but we’ll let that slide and give them a 4.
A member of the Elephant 6 Recording Company (see Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control, Dixie Blood Moustache, etc.) Elf Power is part NMH, part Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie, Postal Service, All-Time Quarterback, etc.). You can tell right off the bat that the influences of Jeff Mangum and the rest of the Elephant 6 crew are going to be heard throughout. The Lo-Fi recording and flawed qualities are more endearing than adventurous, which lends itself to less concerned listening. This would work fine as background music at a party, but deserves much more attention than that. I think I will be adding this album to my collection, as well as giving it a much-deserved 4.5.
Fall “Perverted by Language”
You would think that an album with the first track called “The man whose head expanded” would be good, huh? Well, you (like me) would be very, very wrong. Fall seems to rely on the weird to cover for their lack of musical talent. Their lead “singer” doesn’t (and maybe can’t) carry a tune. He merely talks, speaking the words in a nasally British accent that quickly becomes grating. His vocals are backed by repetitive thumping drums and an occasional guitar. He sounds drunk or stoned, and not in that good Bob Dylan, Conor Oberst, Jeff Tweety way. By far the worst album thus far. A 1 out of 5.
The Reindeer Section “Son of Evil Reindeer”
If Iron & Wine and Azure Ray had a baby it would be The Reindeer Section. Beautiful songs fade into one another throughout this album. The soft vocals of a Sam Beam-esque lead singer are perfectly accompanied by even softer background vocals. Dance music it surely is not, but for what it is (haunting, somewhat depressing melodies) it is nearly flawless. The name of their band (and the album for that matter) doesn’t fit at all with the style of music that they perform, but we’ll let that slide and give them a 4.
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