| Various Artists / What-The-Heckfest 2005 |
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| Album: | What-The-Heckfest 2005 | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | Aug 2005 | |
| Label: | Kelp! Monthly | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2005-08-14 | Pull Date: | 2005-10-16 |
| Week Ending: | Sep 25 | Sep 11 | Sep 4 | Aug 28 | Aug 21 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Aug 25, 2014: | Buford J. Sharkley Presents: As Told to Hervey Okkles Clarity | 4. | Aug 08, 2006: | The Top Shelf (local music special) This Ship It Sails Today | |
| 2. | Feb 12, 2008: | At Your Local Dive Beaten Down, 17 | 5. | Feb 28, 2006: | Lick My moody Guitar Clear As a Bell | |
| 3. | Feb 17, 2007: | Biff Bang Pow 17 | 6. | Dec 18, 2005: | The Ground State 17 |
| Album Review |
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| The Bawd Of Euphony Reviewed 2005-08-15 | ||
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This is a fucking GREAT collection assembled by Karl Blau to help celbrate this year’s What-The-Heckfest which takes place up in Anacordes Wa.. I’ll explain: What-The-Heck is an anual festival put on by the Anacortes record label Know-Yr-Own records and features basically one giant group of friend which includes many K records all stars. Kelp! Is a monthly CD-R music series put together by K and Know-Yr-Own veteran Karl Blau. This cd is the 19th Kelp release and features amazing songs by Mount Eerie, Calvin Johnson, Little Wings, Mecca Normal, Kimya Dawson, D+, Dennis Driscal + Many more. Songs range from Lo-Fi pop to Anti-Folk to Punk to Avant Hip Hop. This CD highlights the amazing talent that exists up there in the Pacific Northwest music scenes. So many choices to play, so much weirdness and beauty, I love it! -tHE bAWD oF eUPHONy CD 1 1**(2:37) Poison Dart: Simple fem pop stomp, uplifting with great chorus’. 2*(3:19) The Graves: Cool percussion, acoustic folk-country twang. Very cool 3**(3:40) Al Larsen: Cool scratchy beat over piano and off-Vox stomp. Bluesy and wierd 4***(3:17) Whysp: Great vocals, faster weird cowboy song. Great arrangements. 5**(1:30) Little Wings: Very odd, talk singing on an answering machine message. Love it 6***(1:38) Woely: Dubbed out beat, off guitar drone and duel vocals (Phil Elvrum?), Moody 7***(3:07) Calvin Johnson: Calvin’s Great LOW vocals over lo-fi cowboy ballad, real funny! 8***(2:10) Watery Graves: Instrumental moody piece, piano, drums and snapping. Pretty 9***(5:22) Bryan & Clara Elliot: Favorite Track! Bryan and his young daughter singing a moody ballad live. She has the cutest voice but she really sings it feeling. AWESOME! 10***(3:42) Laura Veirs: Beautiful finger picked guitar with fem vox. Moody and lo-fi. 11**(2:13) Nate Ashley: Great Lo-fi pop. Electro beat, with guit, drums, melodica and vox. 12**(3:23) Squid Vs. Shark: Moody lo-fi pop. acoustic guitar and vox. Cool 13*(5:04) Solvents: Live ballad, strummy guitar, violin and drums, Nice 14***(4:06) Mount Eerie: Live w/ full band. Vox, fuzzy guitar and steady beat. I love Phil 15***(3:01) Mecca Normal: Electric Guitar and Fem Vox. Classic Mecca Normal Song. Punk influenced. Rocking CD 2 1***(4:42) D+:Epic vocals, strummy guitars, cymbol crashes and doomy electric riff! 2**(3:48) Liar Bird: Slow piano, duel fem vocals. Drunk feel, cool changes. Love it! 3***(2:35) Kimya Dawson: Super Lo-fi recording, quick vocals and guitar, upbeat. 4**(5:05) The Gift Machine: Horn intro into slow beat driven song. Think Pavement 5**(2:08) Your Heart Breaks: Slow piano, march beat, fem vox. Popy 6**(2:07) Darrin Matthies: Palace Brothers ballad, drunk and swingy. Cool 7***(2:00) Sandman: accapella song about animals & humans. Funny lyrics. Cool 8*(4:11) Eddy Blau: Coasting pop number. Cool. Think Lo-Fi Elvis Costello 9***(3:31) Intentional Falls: Upbeat but moody. Catchy pop, great chorus. Yes! 10*(3:04) Frank Barcott: Upbeat pop. 11***(2:30) Fanny Algier: Fuzzy guitar, rocking, lo-fi Punk feel. Acoustic Dead Kennedys 12***(1:20) Jesus Chords: Polka-pop-punk. Awesome! 13***(2:25) Dennis Driscoll: RAD white-boy rap. Funny as fuck! Awe Shit! 14***(4:21) Mouseheart Factor: Soft wurlitzer, moody guitar line, low beat. Enchanting! 15**(2:54) Amigo: Drunk ballad, ucalele, vox, farty trumpet. Odd but still poppy. 16***(3:20) Thanksgiving: I love this guy. Moody piano, guitar, Cool double vocals. 17***(5:08) Karl Blau: The master of ceremonies. Weird glitch beat and swirly sounds. Sweet vocals and electronicness. Beat enters later. RAD! | ||
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