| Cars & Trains / Rusty String |
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| Album: | Rusty String | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Cars & Trains | Added: | 12/2007 | |
| Label: | Circle Into Square | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2008-04-27 | Pull Date: | 2008-06-29 | Charts: | RPM/Electronica |
| Week Ending: | 15 Jun | 8 Jun | 1 Jun | 18 May | 4 May |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jun 11, 2008: | Don't Call it a Comeback Some Sort Of Overture | 4. | May 14, 2008: | 408's Finest Some Sort Of Overture | |
| 2. | Jun 04, 2008: | 408's Finest Fake Plastic Guns | 5. | May 13, 2008: | I once was Canadian The Wires From My Broken Record Player | |
| 3. | May 28, 2008: | Keeping Up with Eran Mukamel (moderately-paced jamz) Painting Over It Did No Good / Solitary Bird | 6. | Apr 30, 2008: | 408s Finest The Wires From My Broken Record Player |
| Album Review |
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| Craig Matsumoto Reviewed 2008-04-07 | ||
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Folky acoustic music with hip-hop ideas. One-man band: Tom Filepp of Portland. The general pattern is one of contrast: mildly gloomy acoustic tracks overlaid with vocals, rap, or drum machine. The acoustic parts often get sampled & looped, adding to the modern feel but also creating a numbing, dull repetition. Filepp's voice isn't strong but has stage presence. The whole package doesn't always work, but it's worth a spin on pop shows or boundaryless hip-hop shows. FCC clean. 1- Off-key clarinet/horn dirge, drum machine stomp, poetic female spoken word 2- Banjo, tart vocal, folky but aggressive 3- Halted strumming, wordy lyrics. Mid/fast but sparse. Crazy atonal instrument break later on. 4- Calmly bouncy guitar, 5- Calm guitar/xylophone riff, instrumental 6- Glitchy acoustic 7- Toylike piano, a wistful and melodic song. Thickly layered vocals 8- Catchy guitar tones, rustling beat, Asian-like random vocal. Good track, too brash to be called "shoegazer." 9- Gentle string plucks, tough hip-hop vocal front. 10- Sad faux-cabaret melody. Stomping, overriding beat. Some dissonance. Instrumental. 11- Midtempo tune, pleasant but a gloomy air. Repetitious, tedious ending stretches it beyond 7 minutes. | ||
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