| Califone / [Roots & Crowns] |
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| Album: | [Roots & Crowns] | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Califone | Added: | Nov 2006 | |
| Label: | Thrill Jockey Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2007-02-18 | Pull Date: | 2007-04-22 |
| Week Ending: | Apr 22 | Apr 15 | Apr 8 | Apr 1 | Mar 25 | Mar 18 | Mar 11 | Mar 4 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Oct 02, 2014: | The Sunset Life Sunday Noises | 4. | Sep 11, 2008: | Undrinkably Bad Oddities Pink & Sour | |
| 2. | Aug 05, 2011: | Music Casserole Rose Petal Ear | 5. | Apr 23, 2008: | Radiophonic 3legged Animals | |
| 3. | Dec 01, 2009: | Kwistens Trainee Airtest 3legged Animals | 6. | Feb 15, 2008: | Lost and Found A Chinese Actor |
| Album Review |
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| MichaS Reviewed 2007-02-14 | ||
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Art folk/Post-Rock. A bit difficult to define (reminds me of Devotchka), but for sure will be loved by many at KZSU: quiet sophistication with alternative touches on well-performed folk (mountain music more than delta Blues I think), spilling, in some tracks, into post-Rock. Good lead singer with a quiet gravelly vox that sounds like a combination of Kurt Cobain and John Lennon, joined at times by a nice male vox chorus. The lyrics are enigmatic, probably meaning a lot in an associative way to the one who wrote them (FCC clean). All songs are really good; I tried to mark a few slightly better. *1. Mid-tempo post-Rock song with a Brian Eno guitar and a folksy train motif. Ends with a nice steel guitar plucking. *2. A calm, pretty pop song, with chorus singing and great brass accompaniment. Quiet but constant throughout the sound you can hear the rattling sound of a tampered piano. *3. A pretty folk song. Acoustic guitar and playful percussion. Culminates. 4. A slow and calm folk song with beautiful Blues inspired acoustic guitar playing and e-guitar vignettes. *5. Mid-tempo, steady beat rolling song. Awsome e-guitars and imaginative soundscapes. 6. Nice contrast with the previous track. Quiet and acoustic, but with some delicate glitches. 7. A beautiful folk fiddle playing interlude. 8. A quiet Bob Dylan-ish song, with a beautiful twirling synth accompniment and some harmonica. 9. A slow acoustic song with nice violin playing. *10. One of the more artsy songs in this CD. Kind of a marching rhythm with a mixing of Apalachian music, Blues, sound bits, and a general electronic fuzziness. Culminates in the end to an almost epic chorus. *11. Slow banjo plucking and Bluesy moarning acoustic guitar and singing (falcetto). 12. Mid-tempo Folk/pop song. Basic, with nice percussion. Ends with piano, industrial percussion and some fuzzy guitars. 13. A quiet Legendary-Pink-Dots-kind-of-psychadelia song with fuzzy guitars vignettes. Beautiful ending with quiet guitar plucking accompanied by metal scrapping sounds. | ||
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