ep41 Reviews: Of Montreal / Parts and Labor - Session: Attractive Eighties Women
bradley posted this podcast onOctober 27th, 2008
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Bradley and Adam finally reunite as roomates! Adam finds something for his reading list, Bradley needs to learn Hungarian and the two record reviews are not as you would have expected. Attractive Eighties Women finally come into the studio and call us douchebags.
- Tame Impala - Remember Me (Free Via I Predict a Riot)
- Oh No! Oh My! - Be A Star (Free Via You Ain’t No Picasso)
- Grizzly Bear - While You Wait For The Others (Free Via Stereogum)
- Of Montreal - Id Engager (Buy Skeletal Lamping (Dig) Via Amazon)
- Attractive Eighties Women - They Shoot Hipsters Don’t They? (Recorded live at Big Ralph Studios)
- Attractive Eighties Women - Lounge Cylinder (Session released free on Saturday)
- Parts and Labor - Nowheres Neigh (Buy Receivers Via Amazon)
- Sound on Film - Tuesday Assembly (Be Myspace friends with them here)
I used to be in AEW. you should check out some of my solo music videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy4-CTFegig
also, check out this new Obi Best video. let me know what you think. I made a little model for this.
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I think this is pretty good.
Listening to Skeletal Lamping a few more times will no doubt lessen your ‘Frankenstein’ view of the record. It takes a little while to discover the treasure. But once that treasure is uncovered, holy shit, watch out.
I’m around my 10th listen at the moment. I give oM a ton of credit, and while the ‘frankenstein’ aspect of the record becomes less apparent as you become familiar with which parts are approaching, it never has a chance to build its musical ideas to climax as they shift from one mode to the other.
I said that about 40 out of 100 of the musical ideas on the record really captivated me, and they really are inventive and fun to listen to. However, there’s a need to fill in the blanks of their short segments, and when they aren’t fleshed out over a whole song you miss the subtlety that can be crafted from their form. I’ll point back to the guitar lines on Hissing Fauna’s Suffer For Fashion: they follow, inform, and cushion the oscillating vocals. When Kevin stops singing they start singing. It’s a well thought out and subtle part to a pulsing driving knock out of a song.
Still, Skeletal Lamping is much less of a downer record, and I can see it being easier to play at a party.