Knots & Tangles
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| Jul 2011
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Sadie O.
Reviewed 2011-09-15
Reviewed 2011-09-15
The Barons of Tang – Knots and Tangles
Reviewed by Sadie O., 9/15/11
Gypsy swing/café jazz/Balkan/metal/oom-pah/tango mashup from Melbourne. Every song goes through a series of terrifying personality changes. All absinthe and bagettes, with a splash of arsenic...
1. 5:25 ****uptempo percussion, sawed Gypsy violins, the full-tilt (and fully tilted) oom-pah brass. A bit syncopated and strange to be proper Gypsy brass, which is just fine. Suddenly switches to pretty double-time Victorian café jazzy something. Switches again to drums and false ending, violin plinks, building to wild steampunk melee. Ends with drunken satanic clowns.
2. 6:35 ****happy bobby little French café accordion. Hard to be in a bad mood around this – at least until the large metal chords and hyperactivity set in. Goes all ape-shit. Then there’s horns and hardarts. Howling ghosts lead into next track.
3. 1:31 **howling ghosts, scary bass noises. Lemurs made out of rusty iron.
4. 6:07 ****heavy metal polka, theramin samba… shredding electric guitar and tubas. Cows on pogo sticks. Then it’s all Math Rock!
5. 5:16 ***fractured bits of all different kinds of stuff, most of it fairly dischordant. Settles into a halfbreed polka/tango. Gets rather romantic and tender for a moment, but I DON’T TRUST IT. There, see? Told you so. Ha.
6. 1:40 ***theramin waltz. Deeply damaged. Hear the tiny creatures crying out for help. Just don’t help them. Trust me.
Reviewed by Sadie O., 9/15/11
Gypsy swing/café jazz/Balkan/metal/oom-pah/tango mashup from Melbourne. Every song goes through a series of terrifying personality changes. All absinthe and bagettes, with a splash of arsenic...
1. 5:25 ****uptempo percussion, sawed Gypsy violins, the full-tilt (and fully tilted) oom-pah brass. A bit syncopated and strange to be proper Gypsy brass, which is just fine. Suddenly switches to pretty double-time Victorian café jazzy something. Switches again to drums and false ending, violin plinks, building to wild steampunk melee. Ends with drunken satanic clowns.
2. 6:35 ****happy bobby little French café accordion. Hard to be in a bad mood around this – at least until the large metal chords and hyperactivity set in. Goes all ape-shit. Then there’s horns and hardarts. Howling ghosts lead into next track.
3. 1:31 **howling ghosts, scary bass noises. Lemurs made out of rusty iron.
4. 6:07 ****heavy metal polka, theramin samba… shredding electric guitar and tubas. Cows on pogo sticks. Then it’s all Math Rock!
5. 5:16 ***fractured bits of all different kinds of stuff, most of it fairly dischordant. Settles into a halfbreed polka/tango. Gets rather romantic and tender for a moment, but I DON’T TRUST IT. There, see? Told you so. Ha.
6. 1:40 ***theramin waltz. Deeply damaged. Hear the tiny creatures crying out for help. Just don’t help them. Trust me.
Recent airplay
St Vitus' Dance
New World Disorder — Nov 19, 2011
The Last Song
Buford J. Sharkley's Themeless Escapades — Nov 16, 2011
St Vitus' Dance
razor's edge — Nov 09, 2011
The Of Of Of
New World Disorder — Oct 29, 2011
The Of Of Of
NOT Palo Alto City Council i — Oct 10, 2011
The Last Song
bricolage — Sep 28, 2011
Charting
2011-09-18 — 2011-11-20
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| Nov 20 | 2 |
| Nov 13 | 1 |
| Oct 30 | 1 |
| Oct 16 | 1 |
| Oct 2 | 3 |
| Sep 25 | 2 |
Track listing
| 1. | The Of Of Of | ||
| 2. | Even If You're Missing Fingers You Can Make A Fist | ||
| 3. | The Symptom | ||
| 4. | St Vitus' Dance | ||
| 5. | Villain (Stage Left) | ||
| 6. | The Last Song |