| Karoli, Bela / Furnished Rooms |
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| Album: | Furnished Rooms | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Karoli, Bela | Added: | Nov 2007 | |
| Label: | Helmet Room Recordings | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2008-05-11 | Pull Date: | 2008-07-13 |
| Week Ending: | Jun 22 | Jun 8 | Jun 1 | May 25 |
| Airplays: | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jul 03, 2010: | Music Casserole Summertime | 4. | Jun 17, 2008: | The Afterthought Somethings That Fly There Be | |
| 2. | Jun 21, 2008: | The Afterthought Margin | 5. | Jun 15, 2008: | Undrinkably Bad Oddities Snow | |
| 3. | Jun 19, 2008: | The Afterthought Machine | 6. | Jun 04, 2008: | 408's Finest Somethings That Fly There Be |
| Album Review |
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| Gabe Reviewed 2008-04-26 | ||
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Electro-acoustic pop with jazz, classical, and world influences. Acoustic bass and subtle machine-generated beats carry the rhythms, cello, accordion, and weary, exhausted-almost vocals set the mood and carry the melodic load, while violin fills and solos launch some of the tracks into a higher plane. In any case, very enjoyable as low key and eclectic pop music. Mostly originals with a couple of covers tossed in, and the lyrics are interesting to clever to poetic throughout. Recommended. *** 1. Swingin’ bass with contrasting mournful accordion and violin and world-weary vocals ** 2. Upbeat and assertive, snappy even, but a little bit too low-calorie ** 3. Off-blues with a simple chord progression but the mechano-percussion somehow more prominent and thus, more otherworldly * 4. Spare, mid-tempo; the cello and the accordion provide the more interesting aspects *** 5. Sweet, swaggering enumerations over a strong bassline and a great violin solo; lyrics by one Emily Dickinson *** 6. The Gershwin standard, but the “livin’ is easy” line is belied by the tired vocals and the naturally weary cello and accordion; only the violin provides lift; superb in its revisionism ** 7. The “shiny machine” of the lyrics and the reserved but periodically spit out vocals remind me of Fiona Apple’s “Extraordinary Machine”, but on downers *** 8. A folksy romp, practically; great imagery in the lyrics 9. Nondescript, flat *** 10. Kern and Hammerstein standard, given the downer treatment but here, more expectedly than on tk. 6; the strained elements of the cello and the bass work well with the inexorable Old Man River’s tale 11. Bouncy but far from the best tracks here *** 12. Cold, almost industrial electronic drone and keening, multitracked vocals. Wow! | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Snow | 7. | Machine | |||
| 2. | String Of Lights | 8. | Carnage | |||
| 3. | Invertebrate | 9. | Prelude 2 | |||
| 4. | Psychosomatic | 10. | Old Man River | |||
| 5. | Somethings That Fly There Be | 11. | Metal Body | |||
| 6. | Summertime | 12. | Margin |