Track Listings (11) - Disc #1| All Artists: Elf Power Title: Creatures Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: Spin Art Release Date: 5/7/2002 Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock Style: Indie & Lo-Fi Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPCs: 750078010622, 011118010621, 5018766995787 |
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Creatures is Elf Power?s fifth full-length and most streamlined release. The Athens, Georgia, quartet has long boasted a depth that seems to elude many of their cohorts in the Elephant Six collective. Earlier releases serv... more » |
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Amazon.com Creatures is Elf Power?s fifth full-length and most streamlined release. The Athens, Georgia, quartet has long boasted a depth that seems to elude many of their cohorts in the Elephant Six collective. Earlier releases served notice of their ambitions: nothing less than head-on ?60s garage rock and psychedelia cross-bred with ?70s glam and power pop and brought into line with vocalist Andrew Rieger?s lyrical obsessions. On Creatures these ambitions finally congeal into a seamless mesh of pop craft and imaginative flight. Rieger?s Brothers Grimm-type serpents and castles typically serve as both psychedelically inspired dream images as well as archetypal caricatures representing the absurdities of modern life. And here, the lyrics are married to the band?s most visceral music to date. The cellos that underpin "The Unseen Hand" or the unfettered guitars propelling "Everlasting Scream," for example, subtly underscore the substance of the songs (whose themes of foreboding and release interplay more than ever) without ever sounding merely ornamental. --Michael Velez Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsThe true masters of rock. Shadowgraphs | 10/27/2002 (5 out of 5 stars) "This year, bands like Wilco, The Strokes, and The White Stripes have gained much critical recognition and acclaim for their raw, simplistic approach to rock music. While what those bands do is certainly original to some degree and worthy of acknowledgement, this CD blows everything they've tried to accomplish out of the water. The songs on Creatures are pure rock, untainted by breakbeats or music videos. Each one is a masterpiece, although this album is meant to be played in sequence. I just bought this CD today, but I've already listened to it twice and anticipate a third listen before the end of the day. Trust me, this is most likely the best rock album released since Lp2 by Sunny Day Real Estate. Buy, download, or otherwise obtain this as soon as possible. You will not regret it. And if you don't believe me, I suggest dowloading ANY song from this album, especially "Things That Should Not Be" and "Unseen Hand."It's criminal that almost no one knows about these guys." Try to Ignore the Oversized Boxing Gloves reymundo helms | Bromley Mountain, Vermont | 09/06/2002 (5 out of 5 stars) "Once again, the sweet yet enchantingly ominous sounds of "Elf Power" are upon us. This is a top notch band featuring violin, cello and accordian to compliment guitar, keyboards, and a variety of percussion instruments. Assuming you get past the tiny privates and oversized boxing gloves, the bands fifth album is arguably its best: More mainstream to be sure, undoubtedly attracting a new circle of appreciative admirers and friends. But there is honestly no compromising of artistic principles here (perhaps it was time for a new direction anyway). Besides, with songs like "Let the Serpent Sleep" and "Everlasting Scream", our little family is certain to be blasting "Creatures" for the Halloween trick or treaters if they dare to approach the creaky front door. Buyer Beware: "The Modern Mind" is the "sleeper" song on this album: It slithers its way into the subconscious with a thoroughly haunting melody that serves as background during my daily affirmations and self hypnosis." One of the best contemporary psychedelic-influenced indie ro C. Cross | 07/19/2005 (5 out of 5 stars) "Elf Power is one of the greatest underground bands I've ever heard! Mixing old psychedelia with contemporary indie rock, they not only create interesting music but VERY catchy and fun songs (trust me, you'll be humming or singing the choruses in your head even after the first listen). Andrew Rieger's vocals are very soothing, dreamy and fun to listen to (more so here than on "A Dream In Sound"). The lyrics aren pretty good (it's a concept album, though) and are relatively easy to remember which helps if you're trying to sing a long. Basically every song on this album is great so it's hard to list highlights. If you're into indie or psychedelic rock at all (or I suppose even just rock!) I can't possibly see how you won't like this album. Other great albums by this band are "A Dream In Sound" and "Walking With The Beggar Boys" (though that one is *slightly* worse). HIGHLY recommended!
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