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February 17, 2005
quick takes: low, graham coxon, lemon jelly
low :: the great destroyer
Low was named for their volume and dour affect. They did away with the volume constraints; this is their groundbreaking 'loud' record. It's opressive as always, and the noise (along with Dave Fridmann's squashed production) makes it more claustrophobic than ever. In the end, it's same-y song arrangement that does them in. Still, some moments, and the last tune might be the best example: Walk Into The Sea (mp3). More songs here.
graham coxon :: happiness in magazines
No wonder Blur sounds so different without Coxon - he's apparently the guy who wrote all the Kinks ripoffs. And no wonder they wanted to change - it gets tiresome after a while. This is the kind of record that gets released on small labels all over the world, documents a decent songwriter in a local scene, and has no larger value. But if you want a bunch more versions of Parklife, you might be interested. Here's a good one that breaks the mold a bit , though: Freakin' Out (mp3). You can check out more at his record label, although you'll have to find your way to his page from there due to page design issues.
lemon jelly :: '64-'95
This is the kind of electronic music you can't even pass judgement on. It's video game music; aural wallpaper; X-games soundtracks. The premise is that they used samples from different eras of music for each track. You'd be hard pressed to tell, and in the end it all sounds like one long sample of an instrumental electronic record from 1997. A representative track: '68 (mp3). Their visuals are always interesting - some pretty wild downloadables at their web site.
Posted by borrowed_tunes at February 17, 2005 10:27 PM
Comments
There's an entire Parklife mashup album, which failed to excite even my interest. I liked Blur's first album, but after that they somehow never did much for me.
Posted by: Max at February 17, 2005 11:06 PM
Interesting - the conventional wisdom is that the first album is the least essential. I actually found the post-Coxon disc, Think Tank, to be one of the 5 best discs of '03 . . . it sharply divided fans.
For other readers, Max is something of an authority on mashups. He's currently seeking a combo of that 4-minutes-of-silence piece by John Cage and any section of Metal Machine Music.
Posted by: borrowed_tunes at February 18, 2005 12:08 PM
I wouldn't call myself an authority so much as a blind, uncritical dévoté. I mean, I still haven't even heard the darned Grey Album.
Posted by: Max at February 18, 2005 12:13 PM
I think Parklife and Think Tank are their best albums, but if you took the best songs off "Blur" and "13" and combined them, that would be a great album. On their own, those albums have a couple missteps. The greatest hits disk that came out a couple years ago is actually pretty comprehensive as far as having their best songs on it.
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