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More There Artist: The Sorts
Label: Slowdime
Category: Music


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


UPC: 643859813027
EAN: 0643859813027
ASIN: B000006CEE


Release Date: 1998-03-24

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Tracks:

  1. Bowie Knife
  2. Count Me In
  3. Slow Camera
  4. Talk Back
  5. Simply Speaking
  6. Day For Night
  7. Sleepy Hunter
  8. New Words Are Too Bright
  9. Sonny's Theme

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Greatness.......2000-12-29

The Sorts (a Washington D.C. outfit that started as three but was last seen with a Skynyrd-like eight members) explore passages on this album that can make you weep. Other parts make you want to dance. Their influence spans the gamut of genres and their talent measures up to virtually any act in terms of virtuousity. The substance and texture of this album will please the listener to no ends.

The rhythm, while not funky, per se, maintains a steady groove throughout and I would liken the sound - especially that of the drum kit - to white reggae of the late seventies, early eighties. The guitar element is apparently teeming with notes, so that all that can be done is to let them flow forth in a smooth, psychedelic shellaque that is not unlike the veneer of Hendrix on his slower ballads. The guitar would probably steal the show except for the lazy, understated nature of the music and the fact the other components of the band compare aesthetically, note-for-note with the guitar.

Also significant is the voice of guitarist Joshua LaRue, a sound which would disappear on subsequent Sorts' releases. The voice sets the tone of melancholy on the songs "Bowie Knife" and "Slow Camera," where he really sounds an awful lot like Elvis Costello, while on "New Words are Too Bright," there can be no comparison as all components gel in a way that is timeless - this is truly one of the more beautiful pieces I have ever heard.

I kind of disagree with "Sonny's Theme" since it just doesn't seem to fit where it is. Still, it's a good song - can't take that away from it - and this album is altogether fantastic.

Music Album:

  1. Between Sunlight and Shadow
  2. I Advance Masked ~ Andy Summers , and Robert Fripp
  3. Scott Fisher ~ Scott Fisher
  4. Better Do Right ~ The Loved Ones
  5. www.bigcountry.co.uk ~ Big Country
  6. You Could Have Had It So Much Better ~ Franz Ferdinand
  7. Drive-Thru Records and Purevolume.com ~ Various Artists
  8. Hold Me Now ~ The Polyphonic Spree
  9. Rock of Faith ~ John Wetton
  10. Guitars For Freedom

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Thinking About You ~ Jerald Daemyon

Mojotoro ~ Dino Saluzzi Group

Wardenclyffe Tower ~ Allan Holdsworth

Damiana ~ Ruediger Gleisberg

Body Heat ~ Quincy Jones

Electronico ~ Madredeus

Call Me ~ Yoshii Lovinson

Tunisia: Recollection of the Jews of Jerba ~ Yaacov Bchiri

Respect Record Presents: Island Music Collection ~ Various Artists

Voilà: Concato Live ~ Fabio Concato