| Low Anthem, The / Smart Flesh |
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| Album: | Smart Flesh | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Low Anthem, The | Added: | 03/2011 | |
| Label: | Nonesuch Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2011-05-14 | Pull Date: | 2011-07-16 |
| Week Ending: | 10 Jul | 3 Jul | 26 Jun | 19 Jun | 12 Jun | 5 Jun | 29 May | 22 May |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Sep 09, 2011: | The Songsmith Show Hey, All You Hippies!, Boeing 737 | 4. | Jun 24, 2011: | The Songsmith Show Smart Flesh | |
| 2. | Jul 08, 2011: | The Songsmith Show Smart Flesh, Boeing 737 | 5. | Jun 17, 2011: | The Songsmith Show Hey, All You Hippies! | |
| 3. | Jul 01, 2011: | The Songsmith Show Hey, All You Hippies! | 6. | Jun 10, 2011: | Wee Animalcules Boeing 737 |
| Album Review |
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| MC Dizzy Jackson Reviewed 2011-05-06 | ||
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Lots of influences here, and I’m talking some heavy-hitting stuff, like Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and The Band. It’s ethereal, dreamy, spacey yet presented in a completely coherent and linear way. It’s got instrumentation of things like clarinets, organ, banjo, jew harp, horns, etc. Many of the lyrics are thought-provoking and lasting. Incredible stuff. No FCC’s. *My Favorites*: 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11. 1. *(4:19) Slow / Mid. Lo-fi, church hymn-like, haunting, like you’ve heard it and felt it before. Sparse with piano and not much else. Great. 2. (4:22) Slow / Mid. Country-sounding song, another one with lots of space. Organ, plodding drum, acoustic guitar, pedal steel, harmonica. 3. *(2:40) Mid / Fast. Loud drums, guitars, bass, subdued harmonica. It’s driving with vocals set back in the mix a bit. It’s loud, epic and killer. 4. *(3:07) Slow. Echoey, melancholy and dreamy chorus of vocals put through a tunnel. with sparse acoustic guitar and piano. Wow. Ends too soon. 5. *(3:54) Slow. The vocal sounds eerily like Bob Dylan’s. Killer pump organ with harmonica phrases. 6. (3:47) Slow. Triple clarinet INSTRUMENTAL. 7. (5:18) Slow / Mid. A bit carnivalistic and spooky. Slight country with banjo. Cool organ. It’s epic sounding. Leonard Cohen influence with the vocal delivery. 8. *(4:41) Mid. Really sounding like The Band with that Garth Hudson-like organ and vocal phrasing. Killer. 9. (3:27) Slow. Sparse banjo-led dirge with some ringing bells and a transistor radio at the end. 10. *(3:10) Slow / Mid. Another hymn-like song with piano, bass, clarinet and guitar. Beautiful. 11. *(7:31) Slow. It’s a lyrically heavy, heavy dirge. It’s brutal, scary, really makes you think about some shit we go through in life. Never thought a jew harp could sound so good. Fuck, what a great song... | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Ghost Woman Blues | 6. | Wire | |||
| 2. | Apothecary Love | 7. | Burn | |||
| 3. | Boeing 737 | 8. | Hey, All You Hippies! | |||
| 4. | Love And Altar | 9. | I'll Take Out Your Ashes | |||
| 5. | Matter Of Time | 10. | Golden Cattle | |||
| 11. | Smart Flesh | |||||