Spirit Man
Reviews
Adam Pearson
Reviewed 2011-09-25
Reviewed 2011-09-25
Twisted, loose, messed-up recordings and experiments using acoustic and electric instruments played improperly and atonally. Old Time Relijun bludgeoned on the head with a shovel and stuck in some backwoods folk-psych nightmare. All tracks strange, slow, and completely worth your time. What are song structures anyway? No FCCs - the man sounds like a National Geographic discovery from the Amazon more than an English speaker.
Disc I:
1. Bent light guitar plays vague tune with clattery, messy percussion; desperate circus non-human vocals. (5:32)
*2. Banjo pluck and strange rhythmic beatbox distortion/droning voice. (5:30)
3. Loose banjo strikes and percussion, settles on a strident rhythm and Special Olympian vocal gurgly stylings. (6:14)
*4. Organ from some Italian boardwalk criminal and persistent tape loop percussion layers. Later some dense guitar distortion comes in waves. (6:11)
5. Uncomfortable timbre to the percussion, dissonant bendy ukelele lead, tuned percussion rattling and freaky vocals. (6:13)
6. Growly, creepy gravelly voice, slow string pluck, backwater bayou tune by a homeless wolfman illicit chronic inhaler. (6:01)
7. Electric guitar looped dark piercing, some Eastern acoustic string patterns, same intelligible hobo snarl in first half, bass drump bump for second half and then some cash-register toy sounds as well. (11:53)
8. Screechy distorted vocals giving a play-by-play commentary of the turf war between our hero jungle man, pounding toms, and hyenas. Upbeat. (5:29)
*9. Bubbly plucky; picks up with simple tribal percussion, sharp harsh atmospherics and instrument abuse. (8:01)
10. Dense dark guitar sustained to an uneasy, cannibal sacrificial drone with hillbilly acoustic meandering and minimalist ringing percussion. (11:07)
Disc II:
1. Vocals / weirdo digital percussion, then gets noisy, messy, and heavy. (6:20)
*2. Massively distorted stop/start looped strum chaos with some digital bleeping. (6:21)
3. Slow fade in, droney harsher distorto meandering, looped feel, noise track. (6:28)
4. Back to bizarre, crawling acoustic guitar meander. (6:10)
*5. Ugly Tom Waits twisted garbage can twang hobo jaunt with double-tracked, strained vocals. (6:23)
*6. Tribal percussion complexity with distant, mentally challenged talk/vocals. (6:10)
7. Simple, steady slow rhythm, growled, barked vocals, no hooks to be found here, manipulated bird whistling in last minute and a half. (6:24)
8. Basic guitar pattern and seeping, creeping atmospherics/digital noise with some buzzing, repetitive vocals used rhythmically. (6:49)
Disc I:
1. Bent light guitar plays vague tune with clattery, messy percussion; desperate circus non-human vocals. (5:32)
*2. Banjo pluck and strange rhythmic beatbox distortion/droning voice. (5:30)
3. Loose banjo strikes and percussion, settles on a strident rhythm and Special Olympian vocal gurgly stylings. (6:14)
*4. Organ from some Italian boardwalk criminal and persistent tape loop percussion layers. Later some dense guitar distortion comes in waves. (6:11)
5. Uncomfortable timbre to the percussion, dissonant bendy ukelele lead, tuned percussion rattling and freaky vocals. (6:13)
6. Growly, creepy gravelly voice, slow string pluck, backwater bayou tune by a homeless wolfman illicit chronic inhaler. (6:01)
7. Electric guitar looped dark piercing, some Eastern acoustic string patterns, same intelligible hobo snarl in first half, bass drump bump for second half and then some cash-register toy sounds as well. (11:53)
8. Screechy distorted vocals giving a play-by-play commentary of the turf war between our hero jungle man, pounding toms, and hyenas. Upbeat. (5:29)
*9. Bubbly plucky; picks up with simple tribal percussion, sharp harsh atmospherics and instrument abuse. (8:01)
10. Dense dark guitar sustained to an uneasy, cannibal sacrificial drone with hillbilly acoustic meandering and minimalist ringing percussion. (11:07)
Disc II:
1. Vocals / weirdo digital percussion, then gets noisy, messy, and heavy. (6:20)
*2. Massively distorted stop/start looped strum chaos with some digital bleeping. (6:21)
3. Slow fade in, droney harsher distorto meandering, looped feel, noise track. (6:28)
4. Back to bizarre, crawling acoustic guitar meander. (6:10)
*5. Ugly Tom Waits twisted garbage can twang hobo jaunt with double-tracked, strained vocals. (6:23)
*6. Tribal percussion complexity with distant, mentally challenged talk/vocals. (6:10)
7. Simple, steady slow rhythm, growled, barked vocals, no hooks to be found here, manipulated bird whistling in last minute and a half. (6:24)
8. Basic guitar pattern and seeping, creeping atmospherics/digital noise with some buzzing, repetitive vocals used rhythmically. (6:49)
Recent airplay
Deep Waters
Songs: Akran — Dec 17, 2011
Magical Fuck Music
Crooked Spoke Adjacent — Dec 04, 2011
Become My Sacrament
lost and found — Nov 13, 2011
Magical Fuck Music
Orangeasm — Nov 08, 2011
Moth Eyes
razor's edge — Nov 03, 2011
Magical Fuck Music
Brownian Motion — Nov 02, 2011
Charting
2011-10-30 — 2012-01-01
Classical/Experimental
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| Dec 18 | 1 |
| Dec 11 | 1 |
| Nov 20 | 1 |
| Nov 13 | 1 |
| Nov 6 | 2 |
Track listing
| 1. | Nest Of Vipers (Got Me All Shook Up Inside) | ||
| 2. | It's Quiet In The Closet | ||
| 3. | Become My Sacrament | ||
| 4. | Magical Fuck Music | ||
| 5. | Blueberry Tongue | ||
| 6. | Moth Eyes | ||
| 7. | Spirit Man | ||
| 8. | I Probably Hate You | ||
| 9. | Salt Me When You Leave | ||
| 10. | Dissonant Pains | ||
| 11. | Incendiary Sleep | ||
| 12. | Trumphants Deation | ||
| 13. | Spit & Ashes | ||
| 14. | 'chelle At The Beach | ||
| 15. | Deep Waters | ||
| 16. | Trepanning | ||
| 17. | Devil In Me | ||
| 18. | Trapped Under Glaciers |