Moonman Is Blue

Artist: Sixteen Deluxe
Label: Sugar Fix Recordings
Category: Music

Average customer rating:

Format: EP
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 607714111123
EAN: 0607714111123
ASIN: B00001R3EN

Release Date: 1999-11-02

Moonman Is Blue

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General

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Noise

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Tracks:

Sibhashian
Over And Over
Untitled
1st Go Round
Untitled
At The Fallout

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Customer Reviews:

a novelella of an album.......2001-02-25

This is what I want to play to snobs who prefer classical music because they think pop is "simple." Sorry Sibhassian fan -- Over and Over is my favorite track on this baby. Pick any instrument in the tune and try to follow it through the loops and whirls -- and play it LOUD. I call it a "novella" because the songs flow into each other and create a nice, 20-minute unified experience, like reading a good short story. Vision... and Shower of Sparks are also extremely good, but this is the one, IMHO.

Great Band. Sorry to (I think) See Them Go........2001-02-17

This ep features what believe to be their best track: "Sibhashian." It starts out quiet and simple with basic keyboard tones, then, after what sounds like a record being scratched, all hell breaks loose, at least seemingly. The thing is: under the reams of heavy and noisey (and beautiful) distortion is a very elegant song structure. In parts it even sounds like a Byrds song. That may have been at least somewhat intentional since they cover a David Crosby song on their "Vision" album.

I ran an internet search on sibhashian, and discovered that Sib Hashian was the original drummer for Boston. What they share with that band is exemplary mastery of guitar sounds, all employed in support of, rather than taking over, the songs.

The "Vision" album, their latest (and last?) release, on the whole, is phenomenal. It took about 4 months of heavy play for me to take it out of my machine and put in something else. Just beautiful noise. Some even call this type of music, if you absolutely have to classify it, noise pop. I think of them as somewhere between early REM (when they were good), The Breeders, Sonic Youth, and a bit like the Buzzcocks.

I've only listened to the first album once and wasn't impressed. "Emits Showers of Sparks" is all fun and good, but not as wonderful as "Visions." A reason why some prefer "Visions" over "Sparks" is that "Sparks" is a bit overproduced, and "Visions," recorded in their own studio, is a bit more raw.

"Moonman" might not be the best place to start since about half of it is filler. Even so, the other half is phenomenal.

I gave it four stars because 3 of the 6 tracks are filler material.

shiny things.......2000-06-18

this ep is just a little taste of what these guys are up to. the opening track is an explosion of ear candy that makes you smile the whole time its playing (and for a while afterwards as well). and it just keeps going through till the end, the only comlaint in my head is that it is only an ep, it seems to end too soon for my appetite, but what are you going to do. buy this cd and love it.

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