Fired

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艺人: X-Legged Sally
语种: 英语
厂牌: Bang
发行时间: 1996年02月14日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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by Dave Lynch

This is more like it. Fired, the fifth X-Legged Sally album, discards the excess and overreaching of the previous Land of the Giant Dwarfs in favor of a straight-ahead live set that displays the band at its blasting, scorching best. Fired was apparently intended as a final swansong before bandleader Peter Vermeersch closed the book on the group for good, although XLS managed to squeeze out one more CD (Bereft of a Blissful Union) before finally calling it quits. Nevertheless, Fired is a fine career retrospective, drawing some of the best material from Giant Dwarfs, Killed By Charity, and opening salvo Slow-Up (as well as Pierre Vervloesem's Home Made), with everything cleanly recorded by Radio 1 for its Cucamonga program but still imbued with the energy of a particularly wild club date (in this case, at the Cactusclub in Brugge, Belgium). Along with Doctor Nerve, XLS was the hottest horn-driven outfit in '90s avant-prog, and Fired proves it. &Memphis& is almost a signature tune for the band, and perhaps the definitive version is here, suggesting Frank Zappa jamming with members of the Allman Brothers, P-Funk, and the Philip Glass Ensemble. Throughout the set, XLS navigates tricky stop-and-start rhythms, churns out flaming solos (Vermeersch's clarinet featured prominently) and twisted unison riffs, and splatters the mix with oddball synth and electronics. A cranked-up cover of Zappa's &City of Tiny Lites& is here, and Thierry Mondalaer's yowling vocals on this and a couple other tracks work far better than they ever did on Giant Dwarfs, context being everything. Although the music on Fired is tightly scored for the most part, there is still room for the front line to display plenty of improvising prowess, and new touches are added to many of the old tunes, making them far more than carbon copies of the original versions. A bit of new material is here as well, including the whimsical and cartoonish &Moe,& an effective album closer. Fired is probably difficult to find, but well worth the search for X-Legged Sally fans.

Fired

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