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艺人

Cotton Mather

语种

英语

厂牌

Copper

发行时间

1997年11月18日

专辑类别

录音室专辑

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专辑介绍

by Stewart Mason

Cotton Mather's first album, 1994's Cotton Is King, was fine guitar pop with a decided Squeeze influence, but it doesn't prepare one at all for the sonic onslaught of its 1997 follow-up. Kon-Tiki is one can't-get-it-out-of-your-skull pop song after another, interspersed with bursts of tape collage and random studio noise. &Vegetable Row,& for example, sounds like a hard-candy circa-'66 Dylan outtake before it ends with a few seconds' splice of a completely different song, which is rudely chopped off in time for the organ-driven &Aurora Bori Alice.& Variety is the watchword on Kon-Tiki. The wildly overdriven feedback-fest &Church of Wilson& leads straight into the gently swirling keyboards and acoustic guitars of &Lily Dreams On,& which immediately makes way for the classic harmony-filled jangle pop &Password.& The amazing thing is that, despite the wild mood and style shifts, the album doesn't sound fragmentary in the least; the pieces all fall into place. Brad Jones' production features studio chatter, audible edits, remarkably loud clicks, and yet the overall sound is enormous, filled with amazing sonic depth. Lo-fi this ain't. Song titles like &Camp Hill Rail Operator& or &Animal Show Drinking Song& might recall Guided By Voices, and the audio-verite &Prophecy for the Golden Age& wouldn't have sounded out of place on Pavement's Westing (By Musket and Sextant), but neither band could possibly come up with a song like the instant classic &My Before and After,& three minutes worth of non-stop hooks grounded with a percussive low-register piano part that makes it sound like a lost outtake from Revolver. In an album's worth of non-stop pop delights, &My Before and After& is a clear masterpiece.