Greetings From Beautiful...

San Kazakgascar
Lather Records
General | Nov 2007

Reviews

Rob Majors
Reviewed 2008-05-05
San Kazakgascar
Greetings From Beautiful San Kazakgascar

Mid-East inflected psych rock. Sound is mostly focused on guitar riffs, clarinet hooks, and often-silly group vox, and maintains a consistently mid-to-high energy level. Longish fades or outros on most songs and a tendency towards repetition. And... tambourine on every track?

FCC Clean near as I can tell; My picks: 2, 9
See also: Psalters, Balkan Beat Box, Akron/Family

1) 4:34 Upbeat and a little noisy. 25-sec fade out.
*2) 4:10 Fun layered intro/breaks and a low-key, rhythmic vox refrain. 30-sec feedback fade out.
3) 4:12 Spy groove with low-in-the-mix reverb vox. A trifle repetitive.
4) 2:12 Quirky call-and-response/chant, featuring a gratingly nasal vox style.
5) 3:54 Very different feel. Low energy, delicate vox, droning bass. 20-sec fade out.
6) 5:52 Like #1. Thin, upbeat, and hook-focused. 15-sec fade out.
7) 3:56 Mechanical groove and abrasive vox. 33-sec outro.
8) 6:17 Pleasant, slow-building worldy instrumental for 2:40, then abruptly switches to a heavier tune with melodic vox hook. Vamps last 1 min with slow fade out.
*9) 5:00 Melodic, riff-based jam. Bass intro. Again, vamps last 1 min with slow fade out.
10) 6:00 Similar to first half of #8, with a slowly flowing dynamic and unobtrusive lines. 30-sec out.

Recent airplay

Exhale, Furnace
Don't Call it a ComebackJun 11, 2008
Mosquitoes And Gnats
The Joy 'n Danny DivisionMay 29, 2008
Wink Eye, Stink Eye
On The WarpathMay 10, 2008
Exhale, Furnace
Baptism a la GrecqueMay 08, 2008

Charting

2008-05-04 — 2008-07-06
Week EndingAirplays
Jun 15 1
Jun 1 1
May 11 2

Track listing

1. Dallas Via Damascus
2. Mosquitoes And Gnats
3. Wink Eye, Stink Eye
4. Tuk Tuk To Nowhere
5. El Rio Flaco
6. National Anthem Of San Kazakgascar
7. Shut!
8. Reign Of Yans
9. Exhale, Furnace
10. Crooked Ladders