Around the Bend

Artist: Love Tractor
Label: Db Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 019011454825
EAN: 0019011454825
ASIN: B000000N24

Release Date: 1997-08-19

Around the Bend

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Tracks:

Highland Sweetheart
Cutting Corners (Instrumental Version)
Spin Your Partner
Pretty
Fat Birds
Paint (Your Face And Stand In The Corner)
Slum Dungeon
J.E.B. Pharoahs
Timberland

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Customer Reviews:

not really jangle pop.......2007-01-25

This album has more in common with Can and Kraftwerk than REM and the dBs. If you are looking for REMjr. you will be disappointed. If you're looking for a tasteful blend of prog rock and the Ventures/Duane Eddy you will be delighted.

BTW 39 minutes was a normal length for an LP in the 80s.

I can't help but sense a little bias........2000-05-28

My midsouth cohorts now seem a bit too easily pleased. Havingconvinced me to rush out and snag this alleged gem ... I was expecting quite a bit more. Don't get me wrong--this is a nice album, and I like instrumental rock, but even with LP limitations of '83 they could have thrown in another song (this is 39 min.). I'd never heard of jangle pop, and I'll say I'm now mildly enthusiastic about it. These are tight instranthems that eclipse dittiness, but they do little more. Most lack any real punch or soul, sounding certainly well-rehearsed but thereby limiting emotional response. I was expecting a more prominent banjo and also for not quite so many almost exclusively guitar-driven cuts. One gets the feeling they are being too tidy, holding something back; it would be interesting to hear them "let it all hang out." Basically, I think I would have enjoyed this album more if it had been recorded while the musicians were drunk. Perhaps even live would be preferable.

bucolic masterpiece from georgia.......1999-12-04

it is very hard to describe this cd. it is really like no other disc I have ever heard. Although I would not really call it jangle pop it makes me think of the turn of the century painting genre known as impressionism. Being from Atlanta I have heard that L.T. has just signed a new recording contract and will release a new disc in the spring of 2000 followed by the release of the long out of print outerspaceship recording. In late 1995 some friends and I saw the band at the Morton theatre in athens and they played pretty and Highland Sweetheart from this cd and it was an incredible show. The new material which made up the bulk of the set was also great. Definitely the best thing to ever come out of athens ga.

Lovely, slightly psychedelic instrumentals.......1999-11-04

REM's Bill Berry had to choose between this band and REM. Financial factors clinched the decision, but this album shows why the artistic decision was much tougher. Mostly instrumentals with playful, interwoven guitar parts, this is an album that I still listen to regularly over a decade later. Pleasant, psychedelic, and groovy.

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