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Well mellow and moody hello, how are you today. I got Easter Someday, the last Dolomite record in the mail the other day and it’s not too bad. I’m not so much into the noisy slow alt. rock of the mid-late 90’s, but these guys use an organ and they’re kinda dissonant, so it’s interesting enough to keep my attention, and these guys are all over the place, I mean the song structures don’t really fit, but it’s so off it works, I don’t really know how to explain it other than it works. I read how these guys went “studio hopping” all over Chicago when they recorded this album, or rather, compiled this album, and you can hear how some of the background noises sound a little different from the sound qualities from the different studios. I love it.
Track listing:
01 Tell Me Mama
02 Mustang
03 State Line Road
04 New Indiana
05 Preservation Blues
06 Dear Ms. Chronic
07 San Carlos (In the
Wings)
08 With Dread
09 Don't Toss Away
10 Calamity Song
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Although I did have some trouble getting through some of the longer songs, and I was glad to get to the more up tempos stuff, but hey I can’t have everything the way I like it can I? Ambiguous, I think, is the word I want to describe this music. I can’t really put a finger on the sound. I know earlier I called it alt. rock, and some of it is, but a lot of it is jam band noise, with undefined direction, but it always ends up going somewhere, and then out of nowhere they throw in a weird reggae song with all kinds of tape effects or something and right after a horror country song. This is almost hilarious, but it’s great. I really love odd fucked-up sounding music. And these guys are some of the oddest that are still interesting and good. Can I be any more vague? I don’t think so. But I can be grammatically correct! No seriously, if for nothing else to hear a weird album, go check this band out, but all in all it’s a fun record from a band who had no fears about experimenting. And I think we need more experimenting.
-Brigham Vicious 03/02/04
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