Stalled Parade

Stalled Parade Artist: Eleventh Dream Day
Label: Thrill Jockey
Category: Music


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


UPC: 790377008524
EAN: 0790377008524
ASIN: B00004WH9I


Release Date: 2000-09-05

Stalled Parade


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Tracks:

  1. Stalled Parade
  2. Ice Storn
  3. On Ramp
  4. Interstate
  5. Valrico74
  6. In The Style Of....
  7. Ground Point Zero
  8. Bite The Hand
  9. Way Too Early On A Sunday Morning

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  1. El Moodio
  2. Ursa Major
  3. Eighth
  4. Beet
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Amazon.com

Eleventh Dream Day may possibly be the best band you've never heard, and their influence reaches far beyond their seven albums. Founding members also contribute to the musical canon through the postrock band Tortoise and the excellent country outfit Freakwater. But despite the breadth and success of those projects, it's a blessing when the wandering artists head back home to the Eleventh Dream Day hearth, and <I>Stalled Parade</I> is their best homecoming yet. Rather than change with each album, the band continues to explore the sonic territory between hush and bang with ever-increasing whimsy, innovation, and reverence. Evoking great drama in the confluence of opposites: silence and noise, entropy and melody, they sometimes manage to be everything at once. Even the interplay between Rick Rizzo's hushed, intimate whisper and Janet Beveridge Bean's resonant croon, which dips and soars with a cellist's proficiency, manages to be both dialogue and argument. In the hands of anyone else, "Valrico74" would be just a quiet little ditty, but Eleventh Dream Day create a jumbled collage built from scraps of Bean's haunting melody, a plunked random piano, a subtle surf of feedback, and just a bit of the guitar freak-out that Bean's husband, Rizzo, excels at (he sounds a bit like Neil Young channeling outer-space feedback). The result is beautiful but vaguely unsettling. "Ice Storm" is vintage Eleventh Dream Day, with a chilling guitar squall and thumping backbeat. "Way Too Early on Sunday Morning" may be the best thing they've ever recorded, a song that wavers with a hangover's intensity, gradually building toward an uncomfortable crisis then easing into a sunny denouement. The album's title may suggest the band members are taking a breather before marching off again, but as the musical journeys on <I>Stalled Parade</I> attest, you don't need to leave home to go far, far away. <I>--Tod Nelson</I>

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars great title. great band........2007-02-17

literate songsters with plenty of attitude and lots of great guitar. i love this band. this is underground rock that is highly emotional and uncompromising, with an accessible yet tough sound. the best thing about finding this band is that they've made a lot of recordings, so there is a feast for the ears waiting out there. highly recommended for all seekers of great rock and roll.

4 out of 5 stars Crackles with energy & tension.......2007-01-29

I'd place this next to Beet and Lived to Tell from the band's harsher, noisier late 80s- early 90s period for energy, and next to Ursa Major as the peak of their second phase as they delved into Tortoise member/ producer/ guest player John Mc Intire's electronic sheen that overlay their rawer, yet intimate, guitar- bass- drum attack, honed by the time of this album for a dozen years at least. It roars magnificently, and the hushed moments are just as exciting.

As my reviews on Amazon say for all EDD albums, there are the usual uneven stretches on this album, but I must say they are fewer on Stalled Parade. The record-- as with Lived to Tell-- crackles with tension. The increased use of processed sounds and studio manipulation results not in a sterile ambiance but a deeper soundstage that deserves fine headphones or great speakers to appreciate. It's very well produced. I would recommend it along with Ursa Major as the best entry into EDD's later period. Their albums by the 00s emerge more slowly, but they are always worth the wait. Yo La Tengo, New Radiant Storm King and EDD: few bands from the mid-80s continue today with the integrity and committment to quality music stubbornly true to a band's vision and not the charts. Long may they march.

5 out of 5 stars excellent music shines in obscurity.......2002-12-04

My brother bought Stalled Parade for me last Christmas. It was the first time I ever heard of Eleventh Dream Day. What have I been missing? ONLY ONE OF THE BEST BANDS IN EXISTENCE! I love this CD. All nine songs are excellently written and performed. I really enjoy the variation of vocals. The music reminds me of Neil Young, REM, and Fleetwood Mac, but it has an awesome new sound in it that I can't place. If you enjoy good rock music that is a genuine alternative to what is currently popular, buy Eleventh Dream Day's Stalled Parade. Rock on!

5 out of 5 stars oh yeah oh yeah.......2001-01-04

No offense to Freakwater fans, but i am SO glad when Ms. Bean and all the other Dream Day people get back together to do another record. I first heard their disc "Beet" when i was in exactly the right mood for something kinda like old-timey rough and melodo-punky that was at the same time brand new, and then i got totally hypnotized by their record "Eighth", which i found by accident in a noncyber store where it was filed under "D" instead of "E". Anyway, this latest disc is extra-dreamy, and even the cover art kinda reminds me in a good way of what a glorious mess things still are (believe it or not) at the edge of mainstream glitter and hype. The sounds that come off this record are rich and full of all kinds of mysteries, and Eleventh Dream Day completely deserves to be very un-obscure.

4 out of 5 stars

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