Cars & Trains / Rusty String
Album: | Rusty String | Collection: | General | |
Artist: | Cars & Trains | Added: | Dec 2007 | |
Label: | Circle Into Square |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2008-04-27 | Pull Date: | 2008-06-29 | Charts: | Electronic |
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Week Ending: | Jun 15 | Jun 8 | Jun 1 | May 18 | May 4 |
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Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
1. | Jun 11, 2008: | Don't Call it a Comeback
Some Sort Of Overture |
4. | May 14, 2008: | 408's Finest
Some Sort Of Overture |
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2. | Jun 04, 2008: | 408's Finest
Fake Plastic Guns |
5. | May 13, 2008: | I once was Canadian
The Wires From My Broken Record Player |
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3. | May 28, 2008: | Keeping Up with Eran Mukamel (moderately-paced jamz)
Painting Over It Did No Good / Solitary Bird |
6. | Apr 30, 2008: | 408s Finest
The Wires From My Broken Record Player |
Album Review
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2008-04-07
Reviewed 2008-04-07
Folky acoustic music with hip-hop ideas. One-man band: Tom Filepp of Portland. The general pattern is one of contrast: mildly gloomy acoustic tracks overlaid with vocals, rap, or drum machine. The acoustic parts often get sampled & looped, adding to the modern feel but also creating a numbing, dull repetition. Filepp's voice isn't strong but has stage presence. The whole package doesn't always work, but it's worth a spin on pop shows or boundaryless hip-hop shows.
FCC clean.
1- Off-key clarinet/horn dirge, drum machine stomp, poetic female spoken word
2- Banjo, tart vocal, folky but aggressive
3- Halted strumming, wordy lyrics. Mid/fast but sparse. Crazy atonal instrument break later on.
4- Calmly bouncy guitar,
5- Calm guitar/xylophone riff, instrumental
6- Glitchy acoustic
7- Toylike piano, a wistful and melodic song. Thickly layered vocals
8- Catchy guitar tones, rustling beat, Asian-like random vocal. Good track, too brash to be called "shoegazer."
9- Gentle string plucks, tough hip-hop vocal front.
10- Sad faux-cabaret melody. Stomping, overriding beat. Some dissonance. Instrumental.
11- Midtempo tune, pleasant but a gloomy air. Repetitious, tedious ending stretches it beyond 7 minutes.
FCC clean.
1- Off-key clarinet/horn dirge, drum machine stomp, poetic female spoken word
2- Banjo, tart vocal, folky but aggressive
3- Halted strumming, wordy lyrics. Mid/fast but sparse. Crazy atonal instrument break later on.
4- Calmly bouncy guitar,
5- Calm guitar/xylophone riff, instrumental
6- Glitchy acoustic
7- Toylike piano, a wistful and melodic song. Thickly layered vocals
8- Catchy guitar tones, rustling beat, Asian-like random vocal. Good track, too brash to be called "shoegazer."
9- Gentle string plucks, tough hip-hop vocal front.
10- Sad faux-cabaret melody. Stomping, overriding beat. Some dissonance. Instrumental.
11- Midtempo tune, pleasant but a gloomy air. Repetitious, tedious ending stretches it beyond 7 minutes.
Track Listing