Artist: The For Carnations
Album: Promised Works
Label: Touch and Go Records
Year: 2007 (first released in 1995)
Reviewed by: Woodstock Slim
Sounds
like it could be real good Americana, but it's not. Not that it's bad
Americana, "Promised Works" should by all means have slided in between
an experimental Vetiver album and a Kim Fowley early 90's LSD trip. But
it did not. So I'm doing it for the record industry. The restless
guitar strumming is reminiscent of pre- PJ Harvey days when Rock became
Art. Acoustic sets on electric guitars under-toned with Amish bass
notes and almost Pagan drumming rising and falling. It was definitely
made before all those horrible unplugged sessions in New York or where
ever the fudge they were recorded, or maybe The For Carnations just
hate them as much as I do. Those recordings were a direct result of
Kurt Cobain's death I reckon. Hell, man!
With my first listen I
think, no... I believed that it might be for Mudhoney fans to chill out
to, Breeders fans, Boys Against Girls fans and a few Melvin's
listeners. You will not listen to this in your car. A cold beer, feet
up, shit day at your back, ears still warm with your boss's barking
kind of music. If you hate classical music, you will love this. If
you've never heard of U2, you will buy this album and their new 2006
release, how ever different and transposed. It was well worth releasing
again although the squeaky clean quality of the recording grates me a
little. Would have gone platinum if it were on Four Track.
