| Laner, Brad / Natural Selections |
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| Album: | Natural Selections | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Laner, Brad | Added: | 08/2010 | |
| Label: | Hometapes | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2011-03-06 | Pull Date: | 2011-05-08 |
| Week Ending: | 24 Apr | 3 Apr | 27 Mar | 20 Mar | 13 Mar |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | May 08, 2011: | lost and found Why Did I Do It | 4. | Mar 28, 2011: | dream shoess Crawl Back In | |
| 2. | Apr 20, 2011: | The Donner Party Eyes Close | 5. | Mar 24, 2011: | Treeswinger Radio Crawl Back In | |
| 3. | Mar 29, 2011: | anti-heroine Magnolia Doubles | 6. | Mar 23, 2011: | Brownian Motion Little Death |
| Album Review |
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| Richard Davila Reviewed 2011-02-27 | ||
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Brad Laner – Natural Selection (Hometapes) Tightly produced Beach Boys influenced experimental avant pop. Massive drums, massively overdubbed vocals. Arrangements that sparkle and crack in jarring sudden shifts. The quirky pop experimentalism merits a mentioning of the Flaming Lips. Sometimes funky, sometimes quirky, sometimes hooky, but always worth a listen. FCC on 3. Picks: 4, 1, 11, 6 -Doublestuf 1. Ominous acoustic guitar that suddenly shifts to a major key vocal choir. The spooky to happy juxtapositions will make you feel like a ghost in the sunlight. 3:38 2. Definitely feels like a cloudier version of the Shins’ darker songs. 4:39 3. Revolves around the line: “people buy drugs in Lancaster”. One of the catchier tracks, with some beautiful happy to sad arrangements. Too bad he says “fuck” on it. 4:28 4. Extremely dancey drum kit with interjected affected samples of crowds talking. A foot stomping back water experimental folk pop tune 3:51 5. Vocal layers galore with a lazy happy melody repeated throughout. Psychedelic acoustic guitar jam 3:36 6. Another dancey real drum kit song like Caribou. Spacey atmospherics and distorted samples. Be warned, the last 40 seconds are a beat-less filtered space synth slow down 3:25 7. 70s electric organ psychadelic slow jam. Loose structure, creepy and beautiful 3:46 8. eastern music inspired. Orchestral samples, and plenty, plenty of funky distorted electric guitar lines. Underwater vocals 3:52 9. Laner’s little son (couldn’t be over 7) sings a little acoustic ditty 1:13 10. Vocal centric. Relaxed, unjarring, soothing. Simple percussion 3:44 11. Gorgeous dark piano, sometimes driving, sometimes melancholy, vocals with heart, a nine inch nails and flaming lips fusion. 3:53 | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Eyes Close | 6. | Brain | |||
| 2. | Throat | 7. | Why Did I Do It | |||
| 3. | Lancaster | 8. | Dirty Bugs | |||
| 4. | Crawl Back In | 9. | Vicky | |||
| 5. | Magnolia Doubles | 10. | Runner | |||
| 11. | Little Death | |||||