Label: Southern Records
Category: Music
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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 718751858329
EAN: 0718751858329
ASIN: B000056O8A
Release Date: 2001-02-13
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Artist: Geoff Farina
Label: Southern Records Category: Music Average customer rating:
Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 718751858329 EAN: 0718751858329 ASIN: B000056O8A Release Date: 2001-02-13 |
Reverse Eclipse
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just plain good........2006-05-27
great album.......2005-02-23
Creates Appreciation for Karate..........2002-07-04
My overall conclusion does not imply that I dislike every part of the album, nor does it imply that it's inherently boring and everyone should prefer Karate or Secret Stars. In fact, there are a couple songs - or even lines of lyrics in particular songs - that cause an interruption in my overall opinion, so much of a distraction that I begin to think that I want to recommend the album for a minute. And then I can't decide WHAT I think or WHERE I am - "Is it pure genius?" "Am I shopping at Nordstrom?" "Wait, am I supposed to understand this song...am I not 'deep' enough?" At some points in the album, I was amazed at his clever lyrics which say so much without saying hardly anything at all, and at other times I thought his vagueness simply existed for the sake of elusiveness - there to assert his profound, highly poignant musical style.
At this point, my opinion remains fairy stable. Reverse Eclipse is an album with a few great tracks, including "Special Diamonds," "Fire," "Only Yellows," and "One Percent," but the album as a whole is best described as inconsistent. The album starts off strong and I think I will fully embrace its poetic style, but somewhere in the middle I lose track of where I am and what he's playing and what he's singing and I'm suddenly transported back to the requisite Half-Yearly Sale that I was drug to every summer. Before I know it, I regain consciousness and I'm at track 12, "One Percent," completely captivated by Farina's delicate choice of words:
"So leave me alone with this page for awhile, as muscle-memories emancipate a silent smile. Over-dressed you are not as good as weekend-T-shirt-shoulders should support a sated, wine-finished face, and keep new memories in their proper place as they wait for words that strive for one percent of what our short times together meant."
But as the album comes to a close and I reflect upon the overall experience, I am left wanting more. I long for Karate's jazz-laced, bass-heavy, gentle, sparse, rock songs that repeatedly build-up to an orgasmic and tension-filled end. It's bands like Karate that keep me coming back for more instead of wishing there were more... I think the artist himself describes Reverse Eclipse's songs most accurately in his biography on Southern Record's website:
"To me, they beg to be sparse, slow, and abstract. Some of them sit around for years in various revisions on cassette tapes and in my notebooks with little astrists or other code reminding me that at least once I thought they contained a good idea or two. --Geoff Farina"
Although each song has a "good idea or two," Reverse Eclipse as a whole misses the mark, and leaves you waiting for the next Karate release.
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