I Hope It Lands

Artist: Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Label: Communion Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 759718004328
EAN: 0759718004328
ASIN: B0000000SN

Release Date: 1996-04-08

I Hope It Lands

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Tracks:

The Poem
A Lambs Lullaby
Empty Cup
I Hope It Lands
Lizard's Dream
Conrad Adrift Toward Mars
Elgin Miller
Hudson Bottom Dancers
Jagged Ambush Bug
Brains
Rampaging Fuckers Of Anything On The Crazy...
Cuckoo At The World
Inspector Fat Ass
The Arbeiter
Triple X
Booth Delirium
Hills

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More than just another rock band, The Thinking Fellers are consummate song constructors. I Hope it Lands is a carnivalesque journey through soundscapes that defy all norms. Thinking Fellers push musical boundaries, successfully creating a musical dialog all their own. Imagine rock music as a standard language; I Hope it Lands is an as yet unheard dialect. --Adem Tepedelen

Customer Reviews:

poke me in the snodgrass with a pointy stick.......2005-02-03

As different as the Eno/Talking Heads-influenced sounds of Stangers From The Universe was from the relentlessly dark and lo-fi Mother Of all Saints, so is I Hope It Lands from Strangers. In some ways, it's not much different, but as soon as you hear "A Lamb's Lullaby"---a fast, aggressive prog metal song that sounds a bit like Red-era King Crimson---you know new explorations are afoot. Sung by Anne, it veers between ultra-noisy guitar blasts, inhuman riffs, and a chorus of gregorian extraterrestrials. It's followed by "Empty Cup", another diamond sung by Anne. Traveling between a breezy mid-tempo progressive sound and more noisy guitar blasts, it continues the rocking. After the brief filler title track, it's proceeded by "Lizard's Dream". This song continues their experimentation with "atonal bluegrass" as I like to call it, with a bumpkin-on-acid chorus that may remind you of Primus. "Cornad...": the standard eerie filler. "Elgin Miller" is one of the album's strongest points, a mini-epic of pop that travels from more bouncy atonal bluegrass, and a bizarro chorus, before giving way to tight little extensions that recall Frank Black, complete with a surf rock edge. "Hudson Bottom Dance" continues the spaced-out sirf rock sound, perfectly fit for a flying car ride down the rings of Jupiter. It's quickly replaced by the screaming of some sort of interplanetary dog barking overtop of discarded guitar insanity. THat would be "Jagged Ambush Bug" you would be experiencing. Before even 20 seconds rolls by, it's consumed by chaotic insanity of "Brains". This song rolls through several movements of noise rock, but watch out for the upbeat Talking Heads-style change in the middle, and for an operatic male voice singing in a few of the bridges. "Rampaging..." continues the chaos with a brief introduction that resembles cycloptic Venusians going wipeout-boogeying on the beaches of Europa, before sucumbing to a mess of no-wave destruction as their arch-enemy the Elephant Dog from Gogily6 munches them all down. "Cuckoo at THe World" is a quick peice of art punk that ends in delicious laughter. Imagine the Inspector dancing to his own song. Just do it. "The Arbeiter", a little sloppy no-wave polka complete with lyrics about birds and snakes. "Triple X": this is one of the best moments on the cd. It veers from laidback banjo-injected polka pop to a jammy outro that keeps the weird little groove going until it's interrupted by quick bursts of Sonic Youth-worthy guitar eruptions that plod along here and there, until the whole thing is incinerated by angelic voices and static-encrusted noise. "Booth Delirium" is a short reprise of the main melody from "A Lamb's Lullaby", this time under the influence of the Middle East and Great Annihilator-era Swans. "Hills" continues this feel, leaving you bungled and confused by the whole experience. Okey-doke!!!!!

Thinking about music can be fun and challenging.......2004-10-02

One of the best most original bands of the last 20 years. The music on I Hope It Lands is noisy, crazy, Residents-like, Zappa-like, Captain Beefheart-like, Polvo-like, Sonic Youth on acid like. At one moment they're are laying down Boredoms skronk rock, another moment gently beating your cranium with a ball peen hammer of off-kilter melody. Some of this music is beautiful as well as complex, some of this music is puposely irritating as though the band wants to wake their listeners out of a complacent and mind numbing pop induced coma. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 is a progressive rock band in the truest sense of the word: they are moving forward, experimenting with sound and song form and creating some of the most unique rock? music you'll ever likely to hear from a contemporary band. I Hope It Lands contains instrumentals and vocal pieces. The musicianship is very high (in every sense of the word) and the two lead singers, one male and one female, are very good. This is one clever band and truly a treat for open minded or jaded listeners. Who's ever used a banjo in rock music before? I Hope It Lands is an excellent and experimental album from a great band.

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