| Angell, Theo / Dearly Beloved |
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| Album: | Dearly Beloved | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Angell, Theo | Added: | Feb 2007 | |
| Label: | Amish Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| 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 |
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| Scott Coomes Reviewed 2007-04-01 | ||
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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 |
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| 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 |