Nola, Thomas Et Son Orchestre / !Vanity Is A Sin!
Album: !Vanity Is A Sin!   Collection:General
Artist:Nola, Thomas Et Son Orchestre   Added:Nov 2007
Label:Eskimo/Lapin  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2007-12-09 Pull Date: 2008-02-10
Week Ending: Jan 13 Dec 16
Airplays: 1 4

Recent Airplay
1. Jan 10, 2008: Emphysema For Emphasis
Balaustine
3. Dec 13, 2007: Living Souls
Iron Gate
2. Dec 15, 2007: On The Warpath
In The Poppy Fields
4. Dec 11, 2007: radio randomulance
Balaustine, The Clown Is Dead, Tierlexikon

Album Review
Turds McCloskey
Reviewed 2007-12-02
Disturbed, DIY art-goth pastiche. Think Leonard Cohen, Death In June, and you probably know more names than me. FCC clean. Picks - 5,2,3,6,10,12,

1- Seems to be blank!
*2-4:30) Dark, heavily distorted looped gamelan. Cello. Bluesy, jaded vocals. Nightmarish.
*3-4:03) Mid-fast. Cabaret piano/Silent film "trouble on the tracks". 80s industrial style vox. Surf guitar strums and hammer dulcimer?
4-3:32) Dark electro-Kraut. Druggy vocals.
**5-2:55) Slow. Dark, echoey, spoken word about a dead clown. Electronic backing and toy piano.
*6-2:03) Fast strummed processed acoustic guitar. Western feel.
7-3:13) Mid. Electro. Campy version of Bei Mir Bist du Schon.
8-3:12) Slow maudlin 6/8 with cello, guitar and chimes.
9-2:51) Talking over calliope/organ.
*10-4:46) Plain folk guitar and voice. Beat fleshes out. Fem vox. floats on top. Sad, depressed feel.
11-3:43) Organ. Muffled beat. In Spanish.
*12-2:33) Old recording of marching band. Strange percussion, cello, and vox. Idiosyncratic. Last sec. quiet.
13-4:47) Weirdness in the beginning. Strange nightmarish sludgy backing.
14-7:01) Mid. fast. Strummed guitar and simple diriving perc.
15-7:22) Trippy. Ukelele, cello. At -5:20 harsh electronics and a weird medley of previous songs. Ends with live raucaus elec. guitar and vox.

Track Listing
1. Is Vanity A Sin?   8. Intermezzo Di Paganini
2. Iron Gate   9. Sunday With Jacky
3. Tierlexikon   10. Mis Mil Suenos De La Bruja
4. The Clown Is Dead   11. One Step Up To Heaven
5. Balaustine   12. You See Its Fingernails
6. Bei Mir Bist Du Schon   13. !Vanity Is A Sin!
7. Children In The Fall   14. In The Poppy Fields