Jay Walk Snail / Drunken Driver/Save Long L, th
| Album: | Drunken Driver/Save Long L, th | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Jay Walk Snail | Added: | Jul 2004 | |
| Label: | Nmc Music | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2004-09-06 | Pull Date: | 2004-11-07 |
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| Week Ending: | Nov 7 | Oct 24 | Oct 10 | Oct 3 | Sep 26 | Sep 12 |
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| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Mar 04, 2008: | I once was Canadian (the 3/4 Special)
I Saw Kevin |
4. | May 26, 2005: | One Tall Canadian
The Stars Are Bright I See Y |
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| 2. | May 17, 2006: | I once was canadian
I Saw Kevin |
5. | Feb 10, 2005: | I once was Canadian
I Saw Kevin |
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| 3. | Jun 02, 2005: | One Tall Canadian, One Short American
The Boy Gets Lonely |
6. | Jan 11, 2005: | All This and Mor: Best Singles of 2004
All I Wanted Was to Call Ind |
Album Review
Mor
Reviewed 2004-08-21
Reviewed 2004-08-21
Jay Walk Snail - The Drunken Driver / Save Long Lane
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Lo fi mellow pop with Elliot Smith and Grandaddy as heroes. Jay Walk Snail is Oren Lahav from Israel. Home produced (but still sounds great), quiet and mellow, personal and often boyish/obscure lyrics. There are some beautiful tracks here, check them out!
[Tech note: these are two albums released in one case. Related rant: he shouldn’t have spread himself thin like that; the best moments from both would make one excellent album, the rest could be thrown away...]
Track Listing and picks by album:
Drunken Driver (picks: 3, 7, 1, 4, 10)
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(1) * "Rich" lo-fi: guitars, strings, keyboard, flutes. Catchy line, mid/slow tempo. *
(2) Dream pop feel, slight prog elements, mid tempo.
(3) ** Boyish tune, fun for the entire family! Mid tempo. **
(4) * Sweet tune about Carolina. Sparse keys and distant guitar. Echoes Nirvana’s Unplugged. *
(5) Mid/slow tempo, childish. (6) Heavy on the keys, blurred vox, mid tempo.
(7) ** Charming 1-2-3 accordion pop. Mid/slow tempo. **
(8) Spacey keys, guitars. Mid tempo. (9) Slow, drony, heavy.
(10) * Delicate, slow, piano and guitar strumming, lyrics are mostly repeated "Jaguar". *
Save Long Lane (picks: 2, 15, 19, 20)
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(1) Mid/slow, very characteristic and thus a good opener. Guitars, faint drums, processed vox.
(2) ** Excellent track! Surprisingly rich, slow/mid tempo, great tune, PLAY **
(3) Bouncy bridge, keyboards. (4) Echoed vox, strumming intro. (5) Louder. (6) Quiet, soft picking. (7) Mid/slow, multiplied vox, guitar, gets louder. (8) Mid tempo, bouncy. (9) Slow, steel guitar sound. (10) Slow tempo. (11) Organ-style synths, almost church-like. Slow. (12) Slow/mid. (13) Slow/mid, louder. (14) Mid tempo. (15) * 60’s feel in a 2003 wrapping. Brief. * (16) Slow, drony synths. (17) Mid/slow, piano keyboard. (18) Very short, slow, acoustic guitar. (19) * Drony, synth-heavy, turns into a dark folk tune at –2:10. * (20) * Only dreamy vox and synths. Short, beautiful. *
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Lo fi mellow pop with Elliot Smith and Grandaddy as heroes. Jay Walk Snail is Oren Lahav from Israel. Home produced (but still sounds great), quiet and mellow, personal and often boyish/obscure lyrics. There are some beautiful tracks here, check them out!
[Tech note: these are two albums released in one case. Related rant: he shouldn’t have spread himself thin like that; the best moments from both would make one excellent album, the rest could be thrown away...]
Track Listing and picks by album:
Drunken Driver (picks: 3, 7, 1, 4, 10)
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(1) * "Rich" lo-fi: guitars, strings, keyboard, flutes. Catchy line, mid/slow tempo. *
(2) Dream pop feel, slight prog elements, mid tempo.
(3) ** Boyish tune, fun for the entire family! Mid tempo. **
(4) * Sweet tune about Carolina. Sparse keys and distant guitar. Echoes Nirvana’s Unplugged. *
(5) Mid/slow tempo, childish. (6) Heavy on the keys, blurred vox, mid tempo.
(7) ** Charming 1-2-3 accordion pop. Mid/slow tempo. **
(8) Spacey keys, guitars. Mid tempo. (9) Slow, drony, heavy.
(10) * Delicate, slow, piano and guitar strumming, lyrics are mostly repeated "Jaguar". *
Save Long Lane (picks: 2, 15, 19, 20)
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(1) Mid/slow, very characteristic and thus a good opener. Guitars, faint drums, processed vox.
(2) ** Excellent track! Surprisingly rich, slow/mid tempo, great tune, PLAY **
(3) Bouncy bridge, keyboards. (4) Echoed vox, strumming intro. (5) Louder. (6) Quiet, soft picking. (7) Mid/slow, multiplied vox, guitar, gets louder. (8) Mid tempo, bouncy. (9) Slow, steel guitar sound. (10) Slow tempo. (11) Organ-style synths, almost church-like. Slow. (12) Slow/mid. (13) Slow/mid, louder. (14) Mid tempo. (15) * 60’s feel in a 2003 wrapping. Brief. * (16) Slow, drony synths. (17) Mid/slow, piano keyboard. (18) Very short, slow, acoustic guitar. (19) * Drony, synth-heavy, turns into a dark folk tune at –2:10. * (20) * Only dreamy vox and synths. Short, beautiful. *
Track Listing