Soft Songs LP: Aviating

Soft Songs LP: Aviating Artist: Jack Drag
Label: Sugar Free Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 615493001924
EAN: 0615493001924
ASIN: B00004TTK1


Release Date: 2000-06-22

Soft Songs LP: Aviating


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Tracks:

  1. Aviating
  2. We Could've Been Big
  3. 1000 Dancing People Sing With Sub-Machine Guns
  4. Wow! (Dig The No Scene)
  5. Interlude
  6. Crazy
  7. Future Is Now: Yesterday
  8. At The Symphony, I Could Be
  9. An Evening At The Boston Music Awards
  10. The Only, Only One - Parts 1 & 2

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Amazon.com's Best of 2000

File this under low-fi psychedelia. Its woozy charm belongs chiefly to John Dragonetti, the leader of a virtual one-man Boston band. A major-label refugee, he's at his most direct on "We Could've Been Big"--a slap at superstar aspirations and the soul-killing compromises often required--but he sounds most comfortable exploring the kind of cracked-pop surrealism favored by Elephant Six bands such as Olivia Tremor Control. It's questionable whether he even knows what "Aviating myself into submarine skies made of glue" means, but bedroom symphonies rarely sound this good. --Keith Moerer

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With <I>Soft Songs LP: Aviating</I>, singer-songwriter John Dragonetti returns to his bedroom recording roots, recording by himself in a Paul McCartney one-man-band style. The 10 delightful songs on this album, which clocks in at just under 30 minutes, are a definite throwback, but not to a particular era or style so much as to a time when guitar-based rock really meant something. The music has a floating lilt, and lyrically the songs do the happy-sad thing about equally and very effectively. When confronted with such a succinct, charming statement as <I>Soft Songs</I>, it is difficult to avoid using clichés so why try? This is one delightful gem of a record, a stone groove-pop classic. Fans of the Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, the Moles, Beck, and the Radar Bros. will have no trouble enjoying this thoroughly. <I>--Mike McGonigal</I>

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars An interesting Psychedelic LP.......2001-02-04

This album is quite interesting and proves the psychedelic rock is not dead with Pink Floyd. This cd is never boring and brings you in bizzare landscapes. If you like psychedelism, do not miss it.

3 out of 5 stars A disappointing follow up to Dope Box........2000-07-24

Well...I went in to edit this review, because the album has grown on me since I first bought it...though I'm still a bit disappointed with it. Overall, it's mellower and more experimental than Dope Box -- less straightforward pop. I just don't get a sense of completeness with it.

I'd say Unisex Headwave is their best after Dope Box, then Soft Songs.

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