Label: Pattern 25 Records
Category: Music
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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 751937242420
EAN: 0751937242420
ASIN: B00023JD8K
Release Date: 2004-05-11
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Artist: Robert Roth
Label: Pattern 25 Records Category: Music Average customer rating:
Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 751937242420 EAN: 0751937242420 ASIN: B00023JD8K Release Date: 2004-05-11 |
Someone, Somewhere...
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Former Truly (Sub Pop, Capitol) frontman Robert Roth's solo debut, "Someone, Somewhere…," is an uncompromising statement of artistic dedication. Equal parts Brian Wilson detail, Flaming Lips experimentation, Spiritualized bombast, and Tom Verlaine geometry, Roth's soulful drawl and unshakeable soaring melodies weave together washes of haunted guitars, mellotron-soaked soundscapes, and warped orchestral passages into an ageless epic that differentiates itself from imitations. <P>Devil in the Woods Magazine hailed "Someone, Somewhere…" as a "truly timeless creation," and said "Roth's work overwhelms listeners one moment, then pacifies them in starkly bare passages seconds later. It echoes nearly every great blast of sound from the past 50 years, not in the order of its chords, but in its ability to shake listeners from their complacency." <P>On his own for the first time, Roth's fierce yet elegant songwriting takes center stage. "Someone, Somewhere…" plays like a movie, putting you on a first-name basis with characters like "Vicki and Jacky" as they move between urban decay and gentrification ("Walk All Over Downtown Life"), stumbling into the violence and chaos of Seattle's millennium-closing WTO riots ("Streetplay `99") into the rolling blackouts of both U.S. Coast's ("Blackout City Serenade") and the personal alienation that accompanies living in a world clouded over by the harsh order of 9/11's cultural aftermath ("Relive These X," "Under the Ever-Watchful Eye," and "Yesterday's War"). <P>Roth's work is personal but it also connects the personal to the political in the most subtly persuasive way. Avoiding lectures or preaching, he just recounts the low-level battles creeping everyday outside his front door. Somewhere between Thoreau's "Walden" and Zinn's "A People's History of the United States," Someone, Somewhere's ultimate effect is simultaneously unsettling and empowering. It reminds us that there are some compromises we must simply refuse to make.Customer Reviews:
The Beginning of Something Beautiful.......2004-06-11
But you know what? The boy dun good!!!!
From beginning to end this album is filled with songs which never leave your head. From the mellow Lighting and Thunder, to the faster harder Relive These X, to the subtle title track, to the dark pop of Poison Arrow, 'Someone, Somewhere' is truly a great album, filled with dramatic soundscapes,and layer upon layer of keyboards and guitars intertwining to form beautiful melodies. Roth has outgrown the early Seattle sounds of his past and has broken through into something more rounded. You can hear any great musician from the last 20 years in here if you listen hard enough.
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