| Alaska! / Alaska! (Demo) |
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| Album: | Alaska! (Demo) | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Alaska! | Added: | Mar 2004 | |
| Label: | Self-Release | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2004-05-03 | Pull Date: | 2004-07-05 |
| Week Ending: | Jul 4 | May 30 | May 23 | May 16 | May 9 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Feb 28, 2010: | On air test 2 Real Is Your Control | 4. | Jul 05, 2005: | Foreplay and Sex Wax Real Is Your Control | |
| 2. | Mar 26, 2008: | Radio Show The Light | 5. | May 27, 2005: | The Lunchbox The Western Shore | |
| 3. | Aug 23, 2005: | Foreplay and Sex Wax The Western Shore | 6. | Apr 20, 2005: | Strange Attractor The Light |
| Album Review |
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| Elias (Dr Furious) Reviewed 2004-04-23 | ||
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Oh yeah! With members from Sebadoh and Folk Implosion, Alaska! combines classic 70s rock (of the post 60s psych lineage: Neal Young, Cream, Led Zeppelin; maybe a bit of Floyd and CCR???) with 60s British psych rock (the Kinks). Boisterous compositions as guitars and vocals unfold with "epic" transitions and progressions. This really dances on a very fine line. Grungy but jangly guitars married to a Flaming Lips-like bitter but sweet psych vocal approach. Kind like bringing power-pop, psych and classic rock all together. Oh... and if those guitars don't exactly cut it as pure 70s rock, it's the proto-punk/new wave influence of Velvet Underground (hear those guitar chops in the chorus of track 4? total Lou Reed/John Cale). Interesting to dissect ah? Now just dig! Play: 1, 5, 4. 1. Love this track. Epic and powerful. Power popish jangly guitars. Awesome transitions to Kinks-like psych vocal melodies. Great! 2. Early 90s grungy rock feel. Powerful Neal Young and blues rock-based guitar work (Cream, Zeppelin). Ethereal and melodic psych vocals. 3. Sparse dissonance. Mid tempo drone building to a swelling groovy chorus. Bitter sweet psych vocal melodies. 4. Starts soft and quiet. Builds up to psych vocal groove with Velvet Underground-ish guitar strumming. Dissonant and a bit angular guitar solo in the break. 5. Crooning organ in the background. Very touching. A good taste of Sebadoh & Flaming Lips. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Real Is Your Control | 3. | Krystal Korpse | |||
| 2. | Fury of Trees | 4. | The Light | |||
| 5. | The Western Shore | |||||