| Ilad / Spoon, The |
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| Album: | Spoon, The | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Ilad | Added: | Aug 2006 | |
| Label: | Self-Release | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2006-11-12 | Pull Date: | 2007-01-14 |
| Week Ending: | Dec 3 | Nov 26 | Nov 19 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | May 10, 2007: | Finneman's Market Kentucky | 4. | Nov 21, 2006: | lick My Moody Guitar Wheres This Place Called Home | |
| 2. | Apr 26, 2007: | Finneman's Market Still | 5. | Nov 18, 2006: | Biff Bang Pow Raindown | |
| 3. | Nov 30, 2006: | Finneman's Market Still | 6. | Nov 15, 2006: | I once was a 'hamster Before You Sell Your Soul |
| Album Review |
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| Rob Majors Reviewed 2006-11-13 | ||
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Rhodes-fronted jazz/rock jams, with emphasis on the jazz and liberal doses of electronic sounds throughout. Jeremy Enigk-like vox are present, but are generally very low in the mix. Relaxing, atmospheric, chill, and compositionally advanced. Might be likened to a very jazzy Album Leaf or Ester Drang. Very unique stuff. FCC Clean. Picks in order: 2, 4, 8, 6 1. 7:38 - Low energy slacker rock. Atmospheric and key driven. Picks up to a blippy shuffle at 3:30. ***2. 7:24 - Low energy intro into mid energy loose rock, then free-jazz type jam and crazy, over-the-top drumming. Great blend of jazz and rock. Cold stop with 0:06 silence at end. 3. 3:15 - Very low energy. Plodding keys and perc, with some weird 12/8 perc fills around 2:00. 15-sec silence at end. **4. 2:45 - Great 7/8 opener with hovering blips into relaxed bent-key vamp over a nonstandard chord progression. Switches abruptly between 7/8 and swung 6 throughout. 14-sec silence at end. 5. 5:24 - Low energy. Hushed and saccharine synth pop. No changes until 3:50, when a smoothly fuzzed guitar and music-box chimes enter for a brief, quirky break. *6. 7:29 - Jazz keys and perc intro into atmospheric jazz. Mood changes at 2:20 to a cut-time feel with whirring synths. 0:25 silence at end. 7. 5:36 - Downtempo latiny groove taps under a series of meandering atmospheric riffs. Low energy guitar solo around 4:00. Ends with 0:40 drums and 0:7 silence. **8. 9:52 - Very slow opener with metallic clanks.Gradual build to low energy spoken lyrics starting at 2:24. Switches to a more songlike mood as guitar enters at 3:54. Drums build to jazzy improv and the rest of the instruments follow suit as the vox rise in intensity. 0:10 silence at end. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Kentucky | 5. | Say You Will | |||
| 2. | Wheres This Place Called Home | 6. | Still | |||
| 3. | Raindown | 7. | Taiste The Time | |||
| 4. | Before You Sell Your Soul | 8. | Onesies Twosies |