| Speech Machine / Curious Punishments Of Bygone Days |
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| Album: | Curious Punishments Of Bygone Days | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Speech Machine | Added: | 04/2006 | |
| Label: | Yellow Sign Productions | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2006-08-06 | Pull Date: | 2006-10-08 |
| Week Ending: | 24 Sep | 10 Sep | 27 Aug | 20 Aug |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Oct 08, 2006: | Multiple Personality Disorder Monsoon | 4. | Aug 26, 2006: | What's in the Icebox? Loser Girl | |
| 2. | Sep 22, 2006: | Finneman's Market Loser Girl | 5. | Aug 20, 2006: | Multiple Personality Disorder Monsoon | |
| 3. | Sep 03, 2006: | Multiple Personality Disorder New Song | 6. | Aug 13, 2006: | Multiple Personality Disorder New Song |
| Album Review |
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| Rob Reviewed 2006-08-05 | ||
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Mature, hushed indie pop and '70s rock with delicate vocals and folksy flavorings. Detached melodies that are sometimes brooding and sometimes sing-songy. Very good home production with well placed sounds and effects. Music and lyrics written between 1988 and 2005(!) by one-man-band Martin Charlebois. Generally rather boring, low/mid energy throughout with no surprises. FCC: 12 (Somewhat arbitrary) Picks: 1, 4, 7, 9, 11 *1. 4:45 Light rock. Tinkling cymbal first 10 sec. then muted guitar strums, breaks to nice groove at 0:55. 2. 4:04 Light pop rock, drags a bit. 3. 6:49 Jazzy intro builds to dark, whisper-voiced rock with lots of low end. Distinction between acoustic and electric sections keeps the song from dragging too much. *4. 3:56 Light acid rock. Broken-voiced tenor vox. Fade-out. 5. 2:15 Light acoustic singer/songwriter sound. 6. 6:45 Folk rock. Dark, with creepy, hollow guitar effects. Stagnant fade last 20-sec. *7. 4:58 Acoustic rock. More upbeat and catchy, with nice subtle sounds towards the end. 8. 3:03 Acoustic rock. Soft and kind of boring. *9. 4:00 '70s rock. Cool scratchy guitar towards end. 10. 5:16 Dark rock waltz. Builds nicely, a bit long. *11. 3:13 Acoustic, tribal tom pulse with guitars etching the background. 8-sec. outro 12. 3:36 (FCC ind) Light rock waltz. muffled vox. 13. 11:18 Light rock, builds to higher energy with anthemic guitars. Abrupt change to reversed sounds at 6:11. Ho-hum hidden song for rest of track. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Loser Girl | 7. | Worn Out Love | |||
| 2. | Saved | 8. | Used Karma | |||
| 3. | Dream Girl | 9. | New Song | |||
| 4. | All The Neatest Places | 10. | Moonlit Sun | |||
| 5. | Opal Faces | 11. | Monsoon | |||
| 6. | Suffering | 12. | Cinnamon | |||
| 13. | In The End | |||||