Yesterday...and Tomorrow's Shells

Yesterday...and Tomorrow's Shells Artist: Libraness
Label: Tiger Style
Category: Music


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


UPC: 686806000422
EAN: 0686806000422
ASIN: B00004YNCE


Release Date: 2000-10-17

Yesterday...and Tomorrow's Shells


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Tracks:

  1. Intro
  2. Face On Backwards
  3. You Are My Foreign Film
  4. Toy Planetarium
  5. No Separation
  6. The Memory
  7. Richard Petty
  8. Hit The Horizon
  9. Grief Mechanism
  10. Deformed Bridges
  11. Paper Raft
  12. Totempole
  13. 24 Hrs.
  14. New And Old Clouds

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars short-circuited, sand-blasted and warped..........2005-11-03

Ash Bowie has created a singularly wierd solo outing under the name Libraness. Punked-up assaults like "Totempole" (which sounds like Brainiac and Ween trying to outplay eachother) alternate with prepared-banjo (sounding) string-twisters and downbeat indie-rock introspection.

Guitars spiral, swoop and churn in an angular and carefree way -- yet through it all, Bowie's warm, scratchy whisper of a voice lends a pleasant lo-fi murk to otherwise challenging material.

The great majority of the album sounds like it was 4-tracked in the living room or basement, then sandblasted and left out in the rain.

4 out of 5 stars new and old clouds.......2004-05-02

Don't mistake the seemingly paltry four star rating for not totally loving the crap out of this beautiful album. It took me a long time (a few years) to really come to appreciate this awesome work of schizophrenic artistry, but, oh, I am glad that I finally did.

Hey, it is very WEIRD music. It is also extrememly diverse, yet it somehow manages to flow like a mo-fo. No joke, folks. When the night is right, I put this one on and drink my face off, repeating "Yesterday and Tomorrow's Shells" from start to finish until sunrise. It wholly alters everything. Then I put it away for a long time so I can come back to it again far into the future, to span special time with my old buddy.

That's what might happen to you, should you elect to purchase this. Just kick down the used price and get your Libraness on already. (It's better than Polvo, I think.)

5 out of 5 stars PARTY UP LIBRANESS.......2002-11-22

THIS ALBUM STANDS ALONE...IT'S ONE OF A KIND AND I THINK THAT ALL OF YOU WHO READ THIS NEED TO GET THEIR HANDS ON IT....IT'S AMAZING....ROCK DA HOUSE LIBRANESS.

5 out of 5 stars This is a Great CD........2001-01-10

I have been a Polvo fan for the past 7 years and I have to admit, this is as good as any Polvo album. I recommend this to anyone. This album shows how much influence Ash Bowie had on Polvo.

4 out of 5 stars

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