Angell, Theo / Dearly Beloved
Album: Dearly Beloved   Collection:General
Artist:Angell, Theo   Added:Feb 2007
Label:Amish Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2007-04-22 Pull Date: 2007-06-24
Week Ending: Jun 3 May 20 May 6 Apr 29
Airplays: 1 2 3 3

Recent Airplay
1. May 28, 2007: Something about music
Cannonball
4. May 03, 2007: Finneman's Market
Price Of Prince
2. May 17, 2007: Finneman's Market
Price Of Prince
5. May 01, 2007: Into the Nada
Finally ... Dreams
3. May 15, 2007: Into The Nada
Born To Burn
6. Apr 29, 2007: radio experiment #12
Praise Mighty

Album Review
Scott Coomes
Reviewed 2007-04-01
Theo Angell; Dearly Beloved (Amish Records)
Lo-fi, bluesy sedate folk w/some hints of freak-folkish stuff (Angell founded Hall of Fame and worked w/ Jackie O’Motherfucker). Blues vox w/lots of lo-fi reverb. Emulates old blues record crackle + white noise on some tracks, but gets hi-fi by #4 for a bit. Spiritual feel. Songs seems to ramble…tshis give music a tense, taut mood. Often sparse; the wanderings of J-O’MFer/Wooden Wand laid bare w/o the layers. Some tracks have cool spiritual vox. The fact sheet claims that this album was partially inspired by the spirit of a parakeet named Sassy. It took me until # 8 to warm up to the atmosphere. Distant cousin of Pink Mountaintops?
Order of preference: #1, 8, 2, 7, 4, 5, 10, 6, 3, 9; FCC clean.
1) 1:33- soul, spiritual; almost a capella (bits of percussion). Reverb, harmonic vox.
2) 4:20 – fast weirdo-blues. quick banjo. Lo-fi vox + handclaps. Awkward dance beat. Cool layered vox.
3) 2:36 – lo-fi blues. Crackly, buzzy vox + up-beat folk strums. Faux-old blues record feel.
4) 3:23 – church organ. intimate vox + bass. Handfuls of pretty folk glitter (Acoustic gitter, xylophone, mandolin, breathy white noise).
5) 2:53 –darker, midtempo. folk guitar, human vox percussion.
6) 5:12 –sad, gothic (almost apoco) folk. Moody guitar. Warbling vox. Sparse. Synth strings later. Gets slow near end.
7) 8:28 – quiet, slow, SOFT, SPARSE. lo-fi vox. Rambling vox melody guitar picking. This would sound best late at night. Improv?
8) 4:19 – primitive electro-dance beat w/ soul lo-fi vox. Cool interweaving of simples harmonies make this a good track.
9) 3:57 – quick, gothic folk. Dark. Rapid acoustic finger picking. Brooding vox.
10) 2:44 – full, intimate vox returns. Spiritual + hymnals. Hopeful, sparse. Simple acoustic guitar. Pretty guitar 2/3 to end.

Track Listing
1. Praise Mighty   6. Thread Of Grace
2. Cannonball   7. Finally ... Dreams
3. Gonna Wanna   8. Sheost
4. Born To Burn   9. Charlie's Eye
5. Price Of Prince   10. A Backdoor