friend / enemy

friend / enemy Artist: Friend , and Enemy
Label: Perishable
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 663849004228
EAN: 0663849004228
ASIN: B000069V2U


Release Date: 2002-07-09

friend / enemy


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Tracks:

  1. Thax Douglas
  2. Do the Stand On One Foot Dance To the Radio Rodeo
  3. I'd Rather Be High Than Fucked Any Day
  4. Cough Soft Cock Rock
  5. Out At the Inner(Dark)
  6. Just Like Ann E. Fay's Blues
  7. Teeny Comealong
  8. Lost Sciences of the Bible's First Pressing
  9. I Once Loved Somebone, Etc.
  10. Okay We'll Fade Before the End

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Album Description

*Friend/Enemy is the new release from the confounding and prolific collective that brought us Cap'n Jazz, Joan of Arc and Owls. Spattering, loud, wild and moody. Lyrical twists forming scenarios previously unimagined. *Songs began with a loose foundation of guitar and vocal parts from Tim Kinsella and Todd Mattei and were built up from there with drums, bass, banjos, pianos and all manner of noisemakers and ghosts by this stellar group of musicians. <P>Tim Kinsella - guitars, singing, etc (owls, joan of arc) Todd Mattei - guitars, singing, etc (joan of arc) Jim Becker - pedal steel, banjo (paulina hollers, califone) Caryn Culp - backing vocals (plastic crime wave) Graeme Gibson - organ (mansion) Emma Grace Ketner - backing vocals Zac Hill - drums (hella, team sleep) Andy Lansangan - electric piano, marimba (90 day men) Nick Macri - bass (euphone, the zincs, sunny day real estate) Chris Powell - drums, percussion, piano (need new body) Azita Youssefi - piano (bride of no no) Sam Zurick - bass (joan of arc, owls) <P>Recorded and mixed by Graeme Gibson at Clava and The Slabb, Chicago, November 2001 and January 2002. <P>(insert adjective here) windstorm swept-drunk gradeschool textbooks, typos and accidental music. opposing and random musical and emotional trajectories; fuck it; inner / outer wringing-pure-pop from trout mask dissonance arrangements, threatening to break into a million pieces and instead resolving into delicate piano and guitar patterns. acoustic misuse. nylon strings abuse. drop banjo notes down the stairs one, at, a, time. scratch-paper math. done in fragments paints unruly edges on too sweet baby pictures. ghostly, shards of chaos. a drum kit kicked off a cliff, panning out from the clutter of an addled brain to the serenity. -

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars An Honest/Dishonest Review.......2006-04-26

"10 Songs" by Friend/Enemy is hard to pin down. I liken it to the readymade art of Duchamp, in that it leaves the observer wondering if they've witnessed sheer artistic brilliance or utter stupidity. Such paradox is not unheard of in art world, and this-mind you-extends well into the aural arts. Contrary to common assumption, distinguishing wit from dim-wit is often as arduous as attempting to find the fine line between east and west. It seems that Kinsella, Mattei, and the slew of other Chicagoan sidekicks have not only managed to find the line, they've also succeeded in slinking as close to it as humanly possible without obliterating it or crossing over onto either side. What listeners are left with is "10 Songs", a Socratic album that forces listeners to determine which side of the line it falls on. Despite the fact that, in terms of musical accessibility, Friend/Enemy make even Joan of Arc's dazzling weirdness seem about as poppy as the early Beatles repertoire; the bottom line remains the same: Friend/Enemy have put the ball in your court. And whether "10 Songs" is...

genius/idiocy
purposed/haphazard
focused/meandering
meaningful/pointless
beautiful/ugly
talented/inept
real/fake
incredible/unbearable
good/bad
friend/enemy

...is up to you to decide.

3 out of 5 stars

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