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Blood_On_The_Wall-Liferz-2008-RTB
Blood On The Wall - Liferz - 2008 - RTB
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ARTIST: Blood On The Wall
TITLE: Liferz
LABEL: Social Registry
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 183kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 28m total
RELEASE DATE: 2008-01-22
RIP DATE: 2008-02-16
Track List
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1. Hibernation 2:36
2. The Ditch 2:47
3. Liferz 3:04
4. Lightning Song 1:49
5. Junkeee Julieee 2:42
6. Gooooo 1:26
7. Rize 2:51
8. Sorry Sorry Sarah 2:44
9. The X 2:10
10. Turnaround+Shutup 1:23
11. Acid Fight 5:09
Release Notes:
Originally hailing from Kansas, Brooklyn's Blood on the Wall and their 2005
breakthrough album Awesomer are the stuff Horatio Alger dime novels are made on.
The band grew up on the hallowed early-90s American indie/alternative/college
rock boom, and a decade or two later, they pulled themselves up by the
bootstraps to throw the Pixies, Pavement, Sebadoh, Sonic Youth, and all the rest
into one messy blender. Fearing accusations of cheap mimicry, many bands with an
equal admiration for this period over-think their music, becoming paralyzed by a
tendency to tip-toe around the aesthetic. In contrast, Blood on the Wall don't
try to hide the fact that they're trying to write another "Gigantic", so they
often succeed.
They do forget, though, to wipe away the elbow grease: Awesomer, while
impressive, never sounded anything close to effortless. If Blood on the Wall are
considered some sort of indie revivalists, they're rebuilding the genre Jason
Bourne-style, mostly with fractured bits of nostalgia, and the frustration from
this less-than-total recall is apparent in every chorus where a scream takes the
place of a catchy hook. On Liferz, they use even less finesse. Here, the blender
setting's switched from "medium" to "high," making the constituents harder to
pick out. Whereas Awesomer made some effort to match up the puzzle pieces,
Liferz readily uses force to make the pieces fit.
The opening one-two punch of "Hibernation" and "The Ditch" brutally lays down
this law. In a tale of the tape, Liferz's brutish introductory salvo may not
measure up to Awesomer's craftier "Stoner Jam"/"Reunite on Ice" combo, but these
newer songs wield far greater muscle. Siblings Courtney and Brad Shanks continue
to rank as one of the best male/female vocal tag teams in the business,
unselfishly spreading the wealth and appropriating songs best suited to their
tics. While both can spew bile at the drop of a power chord, Courtney grows into
a more mature big sister role on the hazy ballad "Lightning Song", and even on
the grimy power pop number "Rize" she holds back her screams to do her
surprisingly expressive, coherent lyrics justice. Of course, brother Brad pokes
holes in any lingering sentimentality, using his indoor voice sparingly and
hamming it up like a class clown. Whether pining for the next heroine hit in
"Junkee... Julieee..." or playing the slapstick victim of blooper anthem "Acid
Fight" ("There's something in my face!"), Brad never shies away from sacrificing
tonality for character acting.
Though it lacks some of Awesomer's scintillating highlights, Liferz
unequivocally proves that Blood on the Wall may slice and dice the holy
scripture of 90s indie rock, but in a way that's more orthodox than heresy.
Instead of, say, adding a keyboardist or lavishing their music with effects
pedals or studio tricks, Blood on the Wall stick to their guns, laughing in the
faces of the indie gods by blasting another faux-Pixies song dangerously into
the red. Excuse them for being irreverent: They're just punking their
touchstones the same way those bands did to their own 20 years ago. |
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