Track Listings (9) - Disc #1| All Artists: David Thomas & Two Pale Boys Title: 18 Monkeys on a Dead Man's Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: gl.ho Release Date: 3/23/2004 Album Type: Import Genres: Alternative Rock, Rock Style: Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 |
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David Thomas and the two pale boys generate strange and beautiful new shapes, rolling stories, and sonic panoramas out of spontaneous deconstructions created with brass, guitar and electronics. The simple seesawing of a me... more » |
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Album Description David Thomas and the two pale boys generate strange and beautiful new shapes, rolling stories, and sonic panoramas out of spontaneous deconstructions created with brass, guitar and electronics. The simple seesawing of a melodeon gives way to cascading electronica and expressionistic soundscapes-- sometimes pulsating and abrasive, sometimes mysterious and exploratory. Through it all is woven the mordant wit of one of the most distinctive and charismatic singers in modern music, Pere Ubu founder David Thomas, the trademark soundscaping of electronic trumpeter Andy Diagram and guitar/synthesist Keith Moliné, and injects it with a furious rock urgency. Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsWell.....it's David Thomas, what more can I say? B. Kemper | Madison, WI United States | 01/17/2005 (4 out of 5 stars) "Let's face it: It is rather silly to review a David Thomas & TPB CD because the faithful--myself included--like him and everyone else is going to hear it as a ridiculous excuse for music, led by a singer who has been sucking too much helium between takes. So here's the deal: If you like Pere Ubu, or just fancy yourself to have an open mind to music that is "outside the box", give this a listen; if not, then buy another Dave Matthews Band album and have fun humming along. To the fans, know that this CD doesn't break any new ground for this band. It is what we have come to expect and love and I for one will get hours of listening enjoyment from it." Looking to go pale. Brett Lemke | www.maximumink.com | 07/06/2005 (4 out of 5 stars) "David Thomas' creative brainchild borders on the very strange; looping drum lines and beats over his disconnected and demonic vocals. Thomas sends effects swirling around the room, not sparing any vibrato, and makes eloquent use of the effects on Melodeon and Musette. Keith Moline's guitar lines are wonderfully interconnected with the cacophony, giving the listener an ominous feeling of impending doom. Not forgetting the horn player, Andy Diagram's trumpets provide an ambient tone reminding one of "Bitches Brew" by Miles Davis. "New Orleans Fuzz" follows a 12-bar with loops, and even captures a bit of the Cajun city's Creole rhythms on record. "Nebraska Alcohol Abuse" leaves no questions in the listeners mind, but the absence of a band throughout the record intrigues as to what the Two Pale Boys would be like live. [...]"
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