W-S Burn / Pleiades
Album: Pleiades   Collection:General
Artist:W-S Burn   Added:Apr 2008
Label:Stickfigure Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2008-11-16 Pull Date: 2009-01-18
Week Ending: Jan 4 Dec 7 Nov 30 Nov 23
Airplays: 1 1 1 1

Recent Airplay
1. Dec 10, 2022: Buford J. Sharkley Presents: As Told to Hervey Okkles
Counting Plastic Toys
4. Nov 27, 2008: A2Z sub
Counting Plastic Toys
2. Jan 01, 2009: Music Casserole
Land
5. Nov 18, 2008: Mmmm...Tastes Like Candy
Counting Plastic Toys
3. Nov 30, 2008: The Pressure Cooker
Sticky Fruit

Album Review
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2008-11-01
Slow, mostly acoustic songs with off-key female vocals. A downtrodden and sad sound, quite lo-fi with imperfect tuning and singing. Acoustic guitar, occasional violin. There's a delicate sense of magic here, but Pixie (vocalist) doesn't take herself too seriously, as noted by the goofing-off sound samples on 1,2,6, and especially 5. Vocals are hard to take sometimes, but I really dug moments like the violin rising on track 7. Overall, I like the attitude and honesty here.

1- *FCC* Distorted crowd noise and conversation. Then, a delicate chiming song.
2- Skittery, free-jazzy intro. Noisy avant-garde hoedown!
3- Gentle. Sad story about a girl losing her (loser) dad. Some points are kind of funny (on purpose I hope)
4- Sparse and lost; slow double-tracked vocal. Floating strangeness.
5- Opens w/some goofing around. Mid/fast(!), jangly, dark
6- Recording of some kind of auctioneer. Random.
7- Slow, spare. A sad, despairing sound; violin provides some sublime moments.
8- Live. Folky and slow, but gets nicely intense. Lo-fi and oversaturated.
9- Straight-folky strumming and decent singing. Nice midtempo, upbeat and melodic, with cute fairytale-like lyrics. Even more lo-fi than most tracks.

Track Listing
1. Circuitry   5. Counting Plastic Toys
2. Termite's Nightgown   6. Auction For The 3-Legged Dog
3. Daddy, Daddy   7. Land
4. Airplane You're Landing Your Airplane   8. Ladybug
  9. Sticky Fruit