Label: Brobdingnagian
Category: Music
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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 775020194724
EAN: 0775020194724
ASIN: B00005QD20
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Artist: The Hylozoists
Label: Brobdingnagian Category: Music Average customer rating:
Format: Import Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 775020194724 EAN: 0775020194724 ASIN: B00005QD20 Release Date: 2002-01-01 |
La Nouvelle Gauche
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This Nova Scotia band is, perhaps, an inevitable byproduct of the popular (at least among indie music fans) instrumental wave pioneered by Chicago acts like Tortoise and the Sea and Cake. Followers of those experimental sound engineers, as well as the High Llamas and Stereolab, will find familiar textures recombined in new ways on <I>La Nouvelle Gauche</I>. Mixing the exotic--theremin, vibraphone--along with the more conventional guitars, bass, and drums, and including a sprinkling of horns, the group takes liberties with familiar pop structures to come up with playfully ironic tunes. The vibes on "Theironchef" provide a setting for space-junk sound effects, "Details@five" sounds like quitting time at the xylophone factory, and "Reprise" builds to a dramatic theremin freak-out. Compositions flow and ebb seemingly with no particular destination, though at times the Hylozoists--which includes members of the Sadies and By Divine Right, among others--get everything just right, as when a deep, bassy synth takes "Theironchef" to another level. While it may lack for standout tracks, <I>La Nouvelle Gauche</I> wouldn't be out of place in any hipster's 21st-century cocktail-jazz library. <I>--Shawn Conner</I>Customer Reviews:
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