2012-12-9 04:19
麻油女郎
Letting Up Despite Great Faults - Untogether (2012) [Indie Rock]
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Letting Up Despite Great Faults - Untogether
Label.........................: Rallye
Genre.........................: Indie
StoreDate.....................: Oct-09-2012
Source........................: CDDA
Grabber.......................: Exact Audio Copy (Secure Mode)
Encoding Scheme...............: Lame 3.98.4 V0 VBR Joint-Stereo
Size..........................: 66.26 MB
Total Playing Time............: 34:37
Release Notes:
Letting Up Despite Great Faults is really the perfect moniker for this
L.A.-via-Austin dream-pop outfit, one that draws attention to its modest
intents while demanding a certain ideological investment: Even the act
of uttering the band's full name in casual conversation requires a
commitment to proper diction. Despite their deceptively daydreamy
demeanor, they're a band that makes you work for it. While their second
album, Untogether, strongly suggests their definition of an existential
crisis amounts to not being able to decide whether their favorite New
Order song is "Age of Consent" or "Thieves Like Us", frontman Michael
Lee keeps his hushed, delicate voice at a considerable distance, forcing
you to wade through the songs' fuzz-covered jangle and bright synth
shimmer to get at their emotional core.
At a time when like-minded contemporaries such as M83 and the Pains of
Being Pure at Heart have revealed the commercial potential-- or at least
steady festival guarantees-- that can be mined from mid-80s British
underground sounds, Letting Up's commitment to their forebears'
downsized dimensions and twee-as-fuck temperament seems positively
defiant. The band gets considerable mileage out of simplicity:
Untogether comes fully stocked with the sort of minimal but richly
melodic Bernard Sumner-esque guitar patterns ("Scratch", "Take My Jacket
Pauline") and dry-iced, strobe-lit Hacienda flashbacks ("Postcard",
"Bulletproof Girl") that make for pure indie pop catnip. And despite
working within intimate, drum-machined parameters, the band evinces a
greatness of depth to its sound-- upon hearing the baritone guitar hook
underpinning the effervescent opener "Visions", it's natural to mentally
substitute in a cello line.
But while Letting Up are game to mix up their production palette-- the
stuttering breakbeat chorus of "The Best Part" practically verges on
drum'n'bass-- the impact of these 10 songs is dulled by Lee's uniformly
smeared, sighing vocals, which are too verbose to serve merely as
texture, but too sedate to convincingly communicate the interpersonal
narratives seemingly at play here. Whether the lyrics call for a tender
affirmation like "the best part is you," or a biting rebuke like "I
can't believe you said those things to me," the mood is one of constant,
hazy-headed serenity; even the secondary vocals of keyboardist Annah
Fisette prove to be more of a complement than a counterpoint, a
squandered opportunity to introduce some he-said/she-said tension.
Ultimately, listening to Untogether feels a lot like receiving a
particularly pressing phone call from a significant other in the middle
of student-disco dancefloor: You assume what's being said is important
and impassioned, but it's hard to fully connect with the message.
-- 6.0/10 Pitchfork
Tracklisting
01. Visions 3:18
02. Scratch 3:53
03. Take My Jacket, Pauline 3:38
04. Postcard 3:31
05. Bulletproof Girl 3:35
06. Details Of My World 4:08
07. Breaking 3:18
08. The Best Part 3:12
09. Numbered Days 3:44
10. On Your Mark 2:20
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