Boduf Songs / This Alone Above All Else In Spite Of Everything
Album: This Alone Above All Else In Spite Of Everything   Collection:General
Artist:Boduf Songs   Added:Dec 2010
Label:Kranky  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2010-12-12 Pull Date: 2011-02-13 Charts: Classical/Experimental
Week Ending: Feb 13 Feb 6 Jan 30 Jan 23 Jan 16 Jan 2 Dec 26 Dec 19
Airplays: 1 1 1 1 3 2 1 1

Recent Airplay
1. Feb 08, 2011: the X files
Decapitation Blues
4. Jan 18, 2011: meow
I Am Going Away And I Am Never Coming Back
2. Feb 01, 2011: Ghost Trees
I Have Decided To Pass Through Matter
5. Jan 14, 2011: taking the a-files to the pound
I Have Decided To Pass Through Matter
3. Jan 27, 2011: Orangeasm - Brick's on time-out
I Am Going Away And I Am Never Coming Back
6. Jan 13, 2011: orangeasm
Decapitation Blues

Album Review
Adam Pearson
Reviewed 2010-12-09
Minimalist slowcore. There are drone, folk, and noise influences as well. It has that wonderful feeling of introspective, gauzy, navel-gazing, drugged delirium about it that Kranky seems to always serve. Boduf Songs is Mat Sweet out of Southampton England, and has been bringing us down with Kranky since 2005. For fans of Rivulets, Codeine, Autistic Daughters, To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie. No FCCs.

1. Violent imagery, delicate, stripped piano, some dark backing vocals. (4:45)
*2. Some touches of electronics, hammered tuned percussion, erupts with full band drum kit and bass and blippy squeaks, sustained casio string tones. (6:48)
3. Slow electronic percussion after drawn out intro; dark, drunken guitar chords. (5:51)
*4. Electronic noise hisses over easy minor chord acoustic guitar strum, builds to a nice little climax of distorted guitar and upper-register vocals. (3:59)
5. Brief ominous interlude with distant, dark vocals. (0:51)
6. Drum machine kicks off track, synth pads carry basic tune, big electric guitars come in a bit later, very dark tone. (5:45)
7. Another ominous, atmospheric intro, straightforward minimal guitar and simplistic vocal line, builds to a hypnotic trod; fantastic slowcore. (7:45)
*8. A little more upbeat, cathartic, melodic, “songy.” Pretty damn good and easy to like. (5:41)

Track Listing
1. Bought Myself A Cat O Nine   5. Green They Were, And Golden Eyed
2. Decapitation Blues   6. They Get On Slowly
3. Absolutley Null And Void   7. The Giant Umbilical Cord That Connect Your Brain To The Centre
4. I Have Decided To Pass Through Matter   8. I Am Going Away And I Am Never Coming Back