| Portastatic / Summer of the Shark, the |
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| Album: | Summer of the Shark, the | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Portastatic | Added: | 06/2003 | |
| Label: | Merge Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2003-09-08 | Pull Date: | 2003-11-10 |
| Week Ending: | 9 Nov | 28 Sep | 14 Sep |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Nov 05, 2003: | press and release Oh Come Down | 3. | Sep 09, 2003: | Arabian Nights Oh Come Down | |
| 2. | Sep 23, 2003: | Tuesday Afternoon Radio Program In the Lines | ||||
| Album Review |
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| johnn Reviewed 2003-08-27 | ||
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This is the solo project of Mac McCaughan, formerly of Superchunk and co-owner of Merge Records. Songs vary from sad acoustic pop to more rockin’ noisy tracks. At times, the indie rockin’ songs are very similar the Elephant 6 bands. I’m not crazy about this album, but there are still some decent catchy songs here. Note: There is a static-like metronome in tracks 3-13 that may be a CDR encoding glitch. It might be intentional because sometimes it works well, but I’m guessing that this is not what it’s supposed to sound like. 3, 6, 10, 8, 1 1. starts as acoustic duet, then becomes a lazy sweet pure pop song 2. slow acoustic pop with a sad tension that doesn’t ever break 3. catchy and upbeat rock, noisy and fuzzy guitars 4. midtempo groove built around static-y metronome 5. lazy pop with continuing static-y metronome 6. piano, horns, sweet vocals. slow ballad. 7. upbeat, catchy pop song fitting to elephant 6 8. midtempo sad acoustic pop 9. starts as slow acoustic, then becomes upbeat catchy groove 10. catchy midtempo indie rock a la elephant 6. 11. quiet sweet acoustic number 12. lazy acoustic rock song with a lot of falsetto 13. distant piano | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Oh Come Down | 7. | Chesapeake | |||
| 2. | In the Lines | 8. | Noisy Night | |||
| 3. | Windy Village | 9. | Clay Cakes | |||
| 4. | Through a Rainy Lens | 10. | Drill Me | |||
| 5. | Don't Disappear | 11. | Paratrooper | |||
| 6. | Swimming Through Tires | 12. | Hey Salty |