Robot Ate Me, The / Good World
Album: | Good World | Collection: | General | |
Artist: | Robot Ate Me, The | Added: | Oct 2006 | |
Label: | Www.Src.Com |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2007-01-07 | Pull Date: | 2007-03-11 |
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Week Ending: | Jan 14 |
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Airplays: | 1 |
Recent Airplay
1. | Jan 12, 2007: | 87ish-07ish
Bloody Knife #3 |
2. | Dec 30, 2006: | Carrots & Sticks... But Mostly Sticks
Bloody Knife #3, Bloody Knife #2, Bloody Knife #1 |
Album Review
Chauncy Sunderland
Reviewed 2006-12-23
Reviewed 2006-12-23
D.I.Y. frail art-pop. Vox, clarinet, old piano, synth, drum machine, chimes, and trash can percussion. Fragile, whimsical, and slightly out-of-tune feeling throughout. Voice is high pitched, effeminate and slightly annoying; it is mic-ed so you can hear every consonant. Mostly midtempo to slow. Think Daniel Johnston in its DIYness and personal fantastical storytelling. Sometimes I feel the "clever & cute" ideas are there, but the musical instinct isn't. Still has some moments though. FCC clean. Picks 4,12,5,7,2,8,2nd half of 13,10
1-(:43) Delicate strummed guitar. Frail vox melody. Low clarinet harmonies.
*2-(1:34) Instr. Banging drum. Unnerving clarinet whines. Develops into a beat.
3-(1:07) Drum machine. Quirky. Fairly sparse and uncomfortable mix of dm and clarinet.
**4-(1:13) Quiet start, chimes. Dubbed harmonies. Chantlike. wood block perc., becomes loud. clar. honks.
*5-(1:09) An old piano playing simpl. Vox harmonies
with acc. clarinet. A bit eerie.
6-(0:51) Drum machine. Chimes. Vox.
*7-(1:07) three-part harmony. Childlike waltz with drum machine, clarinet and chimes. Delicate and pleasant.
*8-(0:33) Instr. sustained clarinet chords.
9-(1:28) sparse. nursery rhyme lyrics.
*10-(1:41) Waltz. prominent drum machine. delicately joyous melody. clarinet chords and melody. slightly darker. descending chimes line. last 17 sec. fades repetitively out
11-(0:49) synth and clarinet sustained clusters. 10 sec. of huffed lyrics and DM, then return to synth and clarinet. Almost a continuation of 10.
**12-(1:23) Old piano struts simple chord. Drum machine and synth make catchy dance beat. Interrupted by a made-up child's counting song.
*13-(2:41) midtempo drum machine. vox spoken/sung.
unnerving clarinets wail in background. second half is plodding banging on trash can beat with low clarinet.
14-(0:36) Lugubrious clarinet cluster chords. Synth also? Last 5 sec. silence.
*15-(2:01) vox up front. faint old piano in background. beautiful synth wash/rumble that grows and fades. Very quiet except vox throughout.
16-(1:40) Old piano. midtempo. vox. last 30 sec. very quiet synth.
*17-(0:49) Drum machine. Upbeat. Poppy harmonies.
Track Listing
1. | The Hunter #1 | 9. | A Pillow | |||
2. | The Hunter #2 | 10. | Bloody Knife #1 | |||
3. | Djien | 11. | Bloody Knife #2 | |||
4. | Stone Giants | 12. | Bloody Knife #3 | |||
5. | Sin Like Holy Men | 13. | Celebration Time | |||
6. | She Owl #1 | 14. | Good World #1 | |||
7. | She Owl #2 | 15. | Good World #2 | |||
8. | She Owl #3 | 16. | Warrior #1 | |||
17. | Warrior #2 |