| Margot & The Nuclear So And So's / Animal!/Not Animal! |
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| Album: | Animal!/Not Animal! | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Margot & The Nuclear So And So's | Added: | Oct 2008 | |
| Label: | Epic Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2009-02-08 | Pull Date: | 2009-04-12 |
| Week Ending: | Apr 12 | Apr 5 | Mar 29 | Mar 22 | Mar 15 | Mar 8 | Mar 1 | Feb 22 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 8 |
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| Album Review |
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| Basil Reviewed 2009-02-11 | ||
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Margot & the Nuclear So And So’s Animal! (Disc 1)/ Not Animal (Disc 2) 8 piece indie rock/folk band with soft male vocals and dreamy melancholy feel. The band explores different genres of music in the same song & layers their music w/ horns, harmonicas, electric guitar synth, cellos, violins & piano. The diversity of their instruments brings moments of lovely symphony. Overall sound is a mix between The Shins and Ryan Adams - unique ethereal sounds blended with some raw folk rock/blues. FCC Disc 1: 1, 2 Disc 2: 3 Bailey “Basil” Richardson baileyr@stanford.edu Disc 1 - Animal! (songs preferred by band) 1.* “ass” experimental, creepy with grungy guitar a la early Radiohead 2. FCC “Fuck” talks about burning manuscripts; Has some folksy guitar breaks and mournful, bluesy guitar whines 3. about the Heaven’s Gate cult! ghostly beginning w/ harmonies, violin & scratchy sounds 4. **slow paced @ first w/ acoustic guitar &rattling percussion. Music agrees with lyrical shifts until the lead singer is a man on a frenetic, anxious mission 5. consistent bass line bumps below cymbals, ethereal noises, twanging guitar; lyrics: “you’re so pretty people envy you” 6. * long, epic song; narrative duet about cheating; the pace/style of music alters as tone/story changes: slow acoustic guitar, GREAT violin, then 12 bar blues come in, engaging call and response, ends with slow melancholy & exploding symphony 7. ***lovely violin, plucky guitar, horns come together in a nice Stars-esque male, female duet about mining kids setting up their own community underground 8. ***spunky, tribal percussion, nice layering of instruments, rock out bit with crunching bass & creepy harmonies at end. He tells satan to settle down. what more could you ask for? Last 10 seconds are dissonance 9. poppy, slower song with a harrowing harmonys of hoots. nothing new/unique here. 10.** beautiful song. slow rhythm, he hits some mournful high notes, horns come in late on top of folksy guitar & keyboard pluckage 11. vocals kick in after 12secs; long sad build of piano, some violins, build to upbeat piano plucks, guitar twangs, horns & wolf-like OOoOO vocals 12.*** great percussion, horns & harmonica; a bit poppy with bells & standard soft rock guitar rifts @ times but you’ll bop along. about a hotel ghost trying to hang a sheriff! Disc 2 – Not Animal (songs preferred by label PLUS some also on Animal) 1. Same song as # 8 on disc 1 2. Same song as #9 on disc 1 3. FCCs “Fucking” “Shit” – very folksy w/ dark feeling; beautiful song & a fave of their fans 4. boring compared to their other stuff. Some nice violin & electric guitar work. 5. Same song as #10 on disc 1 6. Same song as #3 on disc 1 7. Same song as #12 on disc 1 8. * slow song; harrowing, lovely harmonies, organ-like piano and synth work 9. **GREAT opening line “chocking on a bone she comes wandering home” REALLy picks up at 1:20 w/ loud percussion & horns, electric guitar distortion; even more frantic by the end 10. more hard-rocking than their other songs; powerful percussion, aggressive guitar 11. up beat folk rocking w/ steel guitar sound like ryan adams. straight forward instrumentation 12. **starts like a wilco song- soft country guitar & calm vocals; beautiful duets & harmonies; LOVELY dazzling build at the end but song is over w/ about 20 secs left | ||
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