| Hi Red Center / Assemble |
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| Album: | Assemble | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Hi Red Center | Added: | 03/2009 | |
| Label: | Joyful Noise Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2009-07-26 | Pull Date: | 2009-09-27 |
| Week Ending: | 13 Sep | 23 Aug | 16 Aug | 9 Aug | 2 Aug |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Feb 22, 2013: | FOLKTRONICA Toothless Beau | 4. | Aug 13, 2009: | The Alternatives Toothless Beau | |
| 2. | Sep 12, 2009: | Music Casserole Chicken Gorlet | 5. | Aug 02, 2009: | Transmission Overload Toothless Beau | |
| 3. | Aug 20, 2009: | The Alternatives Lullaby | 6. | Jul 28, 2009: | Jena & Gomorrah: Black is the Colors Chicken Gorlet |
| Album Review |
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| Ben Wolfson Reviewed 2009-07-15 | ||
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Hi Red Center - Assemble Quirky poppy rock a la Deerhoof or a more conventional Make a Rising: nice harmony vox, tight, off-kilter combo playing, some noisy interludes---quality stuff, they mix it up a lot within each track, like MaR, pretty well. Best: 1, 4, 6, 8, 9 1: very Deerhoofy, w/ a loping bassline and vibe/guitar part that doesn't quite mesh with it in a really nice way. Stompy finish, spastic guitar. 2: Staccato guitar, sprightly vibes. Upbeat music, kind of goofy lyrics. 3: Fuzzy synth, kind of plain male vox. Nice contemplative midsection w/ wordless vox from many menmbers. 4: Disjoint riffs, sort of like a more tuneful U.S. Maple, poppier interludes. 5: Slow bass/vibes duet intro. Simplistic melody, kind of melancholy tune, the title ("lullaby") fits ok. 6: fast, dark, choppy, massed vox. Glitchy beginning. Very Make a Rising. Good vibes. 7: Vocal-led tune, but the vocal melody isn't very interesting and neither are the lyrics. 8: Starts off rocking, suddenly slows down, wobbles between these two modes. 9: Slow solo guitar into, then slow odd-meter chords accompanied by ever contemplative reeds (clarinet, bassoon), and towards the end bright trumpet. Ends with a brief reprise of the guitar riffing. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Toothless Beau | 5. | Lullaby | |||
| 2. | Littlest Giant | 6. | Chicken Gorlet | |||
| 3. | Symmetry Chameleon | 7. | Trees In A Row | |||
| 4. | Nowheresville | 8. | Los Olvidados | |||
| 9. | Pipe Dream | |||||