Dead Letter Chorus

Artist: Llama Farmers
Label: Beggars Banquet Us
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 607618021221
EAN: 0607618021221
ASIN: B00000K20Y

Release Date: 1999-11-16

Dead Letter Chorus

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Tracks:

Get The Keys And Go
Lull
Pornoco
Zorillo
When We Were Friends
Big Wheels
Jessica
Yellow
PVC
Always Echoes
Forgot To Breathe
Kill Will
Picture

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Unlike most teen sensations, Llama Farmers (whose bassist Jenni Simpson is listed as 16 years old) perform pop music with a serious amount of aggression and bite. Taking a page from the R.E.M.-Nirvana notebook, in which catchy melodies are met head on with cryptic (OK, unfocused) lyrics and singers of great sincerity (OK, overseriousness), <I>Dead Letter Chorus</I> is a surprisingly good debut. While there is a suspicious amount of finesse here for such a young band, the band's rough edges poke out with sizable punk-rock energy, stoking the rhythm section furnace in the album's opening cuts. The band turns tentative for a few slower tunes, "When We Were Friends" and "Big Wheels," that prove maturity is still somewhere in their future. But the steamroller picks up again for "Jessica" before backing off a bit near album's end. "PVC," which trades vocals between sibling Jenni and older brother Bernie, prove the chemistry is there when they get the atoms moving. <I>--Rob O'Connor</I>

Customer Reviews:

Cultured Teenage Angst.......2000-06-08

I've been listening to the Llama Farmers since they sent demos out to radio stations and magazines and,i'll admit it freely, am something of a fan. But their debut lp doesn't live up to their earlier promise. Their are some brilliant songs here and they evoke memories of many brilliant bands along the way, Kim Deal (of the Pixies) could have written the bassline for P.V.C, and there are hints of Ash, Foo Fighters, Nirvana and Dinosaur Jnr along the way but ultimately they lack the emotion or passion. 'The Picture' is a notable exception, full of energy and angst with a simple but beautiful riff to go with it, 'P.V.C.', 'Yellow' and 'Forgot To Breathe' are also diverse and impressive, ranging from the steady bass riff of P.V.C. to the lo-fi fuzz of Yellow. Forgot to Breathe is a melloncholic acoustic song that shows that they can do the slow stuff as well as the power pop-rock and the rest of the songs are worthy enough but overall nothing leaps out at you. There's no moment of sudden realisation that this is what you were loking for even if you didn't know it and there's no real deliverance of the promises made on the debut single 'Paper Eyes', sadly absent here. Still for a band with an average age of around 17 it's impressive and the new single (Same Song/Movie) is out now in the UK and promises a maturity absent on Dead Letter Chorus. Fingers crossed then.

This is not going to bring alternative back........2000-03-07

This is CD is your average alternative album. It has a few cool tracks but the rest bore you. Get The Keys & Go is my favorite off the album...but I must agree with the previous reviewer that that song sounds very like Hum's song Why I Like Robins. I am afraid that the Llama Farmers will not be killing the pop music virus anytime soon, but maybe next time.

it's ok........2000-02-28

it's an ok cd, but does anyone else know that "Get the Keys and Go" sounds VERY similar to Hum's "Why I Like Robins".

Great voice, great sound, great cd.......1999-12-26

I think this is a great album. It is very well put together and has a good feel to it. It isn't like a lot of the more super-peppy, generic music being spit out right now. It has a good mix of upbeatness and mellowness. The songs have a nice variety of sounds to them and allow the listener to stay interested even though the lead singers voice does not have much range. I like it and listen often.

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