I've been sitting on this for a few days now, because I really did not care for it at first, it's only begun to grow on me while sticking this post together, and what was gonna be an "I love Jarvis, but this is crap..." thing, has turned into "mmm it's rather good actually", albeit in a garage rock kinda way that dozens of fairly unknown bands are also pretty accomplished at doing... in fact, it feels just like a classic oft-covered song by one of them.
What I still don't really get, is why it's so blimmin' quiet-sounding - first impressions were of a low-fi, lo-volume demo cut, but seemingly it's an actual album track, in finished form; and although I'm all for simplicity & a nice 'live' sound, you'll certainly have to fiddle with the volume if you stick 'Angela' on a mix tape. It remains to be seen if the whole 'Further Complications' album shares the same traits of style & sound - we gotta wait until May 18 to find out. That 'sound' is the work of Steve Albini at Electrical Audio in Chicago, who also did at least some of the recording for Mountain Battles by The Breeders in 2007, amongst many others; and I'd say you might detect a similarity or two... so I do get it, after all - ha!.
♫ Angela - Jarvis Cocker
Further Complications (May 18th 2009 on Rough Trade)
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Further Complications tracklist:
01. Further Complications
02. Angela
03. Pilchard
04. Leftovers
05. I Never Said I Was Deep
06. Homewrecker
07. Hold Still
08. Fuckingsong
09. Caucasian Blues
10. Slush
11. You're In My Eyes (Discosong)
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Upcoming gigs:
May
29th Barcelona - Primavera Festival
31st Copenhagen - Vega
June
2nd Hamburg - Fabrik
3rd Luxembourg - Rockhal
4th Paris - Bataclan
6th Brussels - Ancienne Belgique
10th Blackpool - Empress Ballroom
12th Glasgow - ABC
14th Nottingham - Rock City
16th Brighton - Dome
17th London - Troxy
So I'm not alone then, in thinking such *dance*
ReplyDeletemeaning your soulless city quip? - in which case, no; at best it's all new years eve'y where everyone's your pal for five minutes or so. A good-time Charlie, tho' maybe other places are the same & familiarity brings out the worst?.
ReplyDeletei read that on jarvis's last record, he purposely started the album opener, "loss adjuster, part one," at a very low volume so that when the next song kicked in, you would be kind of blown away by the sound as you had had to turn it up so loud to hear the first few strands of music. maybe he's playing a similar sort of trick on the listener this time, although i see that angela is the second track in. hmmm, my theory may be for the birds . . .
ReplyDeleteregardless, i'm looking forward to it.
me too mjrc - heard it a couple of times today, & apparent levels sorta similar throughout; definitely not one to play over come & go kitchen clatter - it all but vanished, then sounded ace once listening w/o background noise. Good theory though - I wondered something similar, and it's surely deliberate... but kinda rare these days.
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