Quebec
- 艺人
- Ween
- 语种
- 英语
- 厂牌
- Sanctuary
- 发行时间
- 2003年08月05日
- 专辑类别
- 录音室专辑
专辑介绍
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Prior to the release of its eighth studio album, Ween claimed that Quebec represented a return to the &browner side& of the band, an assertion that surely warmed the hearts of longtime followers. If you're not sure what the &browner side& is, it's their predilection for weirdness, both creepy and cheerful, that has largely been absent since expert studio-craft entered the picture with Chocolate & Cheese -- a record that had its share of strangeness (&Spinal Meningitis [Got Me Down]& is as unsettling as pop music gets, no matter how darkly funny it is), but surely exhibited their musicality. Deaner and Gener are many things but liars they are not, and Quebec is indeed the strangest album Ween has made since Chocolate & Cheese, but the lessons of 12 Golden Country Greats, The Mollusk, and White Pepper have not been forgotten. This is Pure Guava performed with the precision and cleanliness of White Pepper -- perhaps a mixed blessing for some (those who long for the Scotchguard-fueled madness of The Pod), yet it's a sheer delight for those who patiently sat through the longest period between Ween albums yet. If Quebec has any faults, it's that it is more a collection of songs than a unified record and, sometimes, those songs seem to be included just to get things weird again. Then again, that's kind of the point of Quebec -- it's a clearinghouse of ideas, jokes, experiments, and jams that gains its own momentum through its lack of cohesion, not the least because it feels like they're stretching their legs now that they're on an indie label again (this is their first record for Sanctuary after nearly a decade on Elektra). ... Read More...
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