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Artist: Models
Label: Mushroom Category: Music Average customer rating: Format: Import Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 EAN: 9397603224225 ASIN: B000007V4G Release Date: 1997-11-04 |
Local And/Or General
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label: MUSHROOMrelease date: 25 March 1991Customer Reviews:
great songs, unevenly presented.......2002-09-17
The basic material in "Local And/Or General" is very good and very varied - the styles range from screechy guitar rock ("Local And/Or General") to very lightweight pop ("Unhappy") taking in weird electronic sounds and quasi- (extremely quasi-) reggae ("Rates of Change", which is actually a version of their early "Progressive Office Pools") on the way. The songs themselves are slightly less oblique and abstract than on "Cut Lunch", which is an advantage for a full-length album.
So, there are some very strong tracks here; the title track must be one of the best songs the Models ever did, "Tearing Hair Out" and "Bantam Had" juxtapose gruesome subject matter with bouncy catchy tunes, and the admittedly very simple joke of "Truth About Truth About Scientists" is presented with panache and kept brief.
What this album lacks is structure and atmosphere. "Alphabravocharliedeltaechofoxtrotgolf" and "Cut Lunch" demonstrated that the Models had a inherent talent for creating slightly warped versions of conventional pop songs that were still appealing, brief and catchy. They tried to do this again on "Local And/Or General" and failed. Many of the songs are good ideas that are presented confusingly or flatly.
For example, compare the version of "Man O' Action" here with the one on "Cut Lunch". It's ridiculously over-produced, with a Nick Launay type "big drum sound" that just sounds stupid, an awful guitar riff is added, and it's still about ten times more boring than the original! And like other songs on the album, the screechy trebly sound means that the bass & drums don't really drive the songs - in the bits without singing, the songs meander along doing nothing.
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