St. Thomas / Im Coming Home
Album: Im Coming Home   Collection:General
Artist:St. Thomas   Added:Apr 2002
Label:Misra  

Recent Airplay
1. Nov 22, 2018: Being as an ocean
Cornerman
2. Jul 03, 2002: Brownian Motion
She Married a Cowboy

Album Review
Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2002-06-11
At first I thought this a Neil Young spoof band a la Natl Lampoon. But the music is dead serious and quality twangy alt folk western. Learning that this guy is from Norway only makes it more strange. After the twangy falsetto voice subsides (with my laughter) this becomes some of the finest alt shoegazer western ever. Sure enough the Europeans spit it back in our faces better than before yet again. Later songs drop the falsetto and smack of Mazzy Star, et al. Great shit.

1) upbeat minor
2) midpaced
3) western Spanish
4) slow-mid
5) super slow w/ organ, no drums
6) banjo centered waltzy ballad, minimal
7) mid paced full band, fuller slick good sound
8) dark themed waltz, slow
9) slow w/ nice vibrato guit, reverbed vocs
10) lower fi upbeat strummy hillbilly flare
11) slower waltzy, dark, banjo, organ
12) live single mic acoustic ballad, slow, impressive vocs, darkā€¦ ends after 4 min then 1 minute of silence followed by another take

Track Listing
1. The Cool Song   7. Cornerman
2. Take a Dance with Me   8. She Married a Cowboy
3. Goodbye Emily Lang   9. Failure #1
4. Oh I Have Left the Ground   10. Bookstore
5. Strangers Out of the Blue   11. Into the Forset
6. A Nice Bottle of Whine   12. Im Coming Home #2