Early

Early Artist: The Dreadful Yawns
Label: Undertow Music
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 722560101927
EAN: 0722560101927
ASIN: B0000TB05K


Release Date: 2003-11-18

Early


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Tracks:

  1. When We Were Young
  2. Village Idiot
  3. This Photograph Is My Proof
  4. I'll Be Born Soon
  5. Your Little Cloud
  6. The Waves
  7. Was I Just Struck By Lightning?
  8. Memory Morning
  9. Farm Animals Take A Ride
  10. Cycle
  11. Highlighter
  12. Play In The Sun Again
  13. Hazel Eyes

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Early Has Lots to Offer.......2004-02-08

With their first full-length Early, singer-songwriter Ben Gmetro and the Yawns remind us that while style and skill may not be what made indie an institution, they're certainly what make it memorable. The album is as eccentric as it is eclectic; opening with the cradle-rocking slow motion of "When We Were Young," the Yawns run a lazy zig-zag between country, folk, pop and Tama-driven art rock. Arrangements abound, electric and unplugged, from full band to Gmetro and his guitar. They even dug out an old Wurlitzer. Some of the album is danceable, some of it sedating; a few of the songs hint at the band's impressive technical talent and one of them is an absolute puzzler.

Gmetro's lyrics are careful admissions of what we can only assume is his fantasy-animated life. His delivery - unsteady, missed notes here and there - fits perfectly, a convincing performance as the quiet kid nobody knows, who shuffles up to an open mic and recites his passion from looseleaf. At first glance naive, Gmetro's actually quite clever, giving us just enough to be curious. We're left with vivid, recurring images and themes but no less mystified as to where he really took us, or where in his figurative world he'll go next.

Grab bags can be fun - and magnificently done. Standouts include the rollicking "Village Idiot," angelic "Highlighter" and the obsessive "Hazel Eyes."

4 out of 5 stars

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