Wattle & Daub

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You've heard Guided by Voices' lo-fi retro rock. You've heard Pavement's smarter-than-thou indie-rock. You've heard Tortoise's postmodern art rock. But have you heard the psychedelic carnival/marching band/glam/skiffle/prog rock of Strapping Fieldhands? If not, Wattle & Daub, the Philadelphia five-piece's first CD (after four years of LPs, EPs, and 7-inches) will be just the fix for your quirk-rock jones. The group has all the prerequisites to make it your new favorite-band-that-your-friends-never-heard-of: like GBV, the Fieldhands are Anglophiles, mostly over age 35, who prefer the tape hiss of home recording and make songs with strange titles ("Scuttled Kayak Odyssey," "Ben Franklin Airbath") and even stranger reference points (Lonnie Donegan, Syd Barrett). Best of all, with a sound that approximates Pavement imitating Herman's Hermits doing a cover of Bob Dylan's "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35," the Fieldhands manage to create seriously art-damaged music while still remaining loads of fun. --Roni Sarig

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Average customer rating: Weird and wonderful!!

Wattle & Daub Strapping Fieldhands Manufacturer: Shangri-La ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Lo-Fi | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Indie & Lo Fi | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00000218Y Release Date: 1996-06-10

Tracks:

1. The Author In Her Ear
2. Song Of Mourning Dove
3. Ben Franklin Airbath
4. The Oath
5. Chronicle Of A Tortoise
6. Tickled With Olive Branch
7. Lunar Diversions
8. Blue Kangaroo
9. Soundshapes
10. Scuttled Kayak Odyssey
11. Rose Seed
12. Abandoned By Demeter

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You've heard Guided by Voices' lo-fi retro rock. You've heard Pavement's smarter-than-thou indie-rock. You've heard Tortoise's postmodern art rock. But have you heard the psychedelic carnival/marching band/glam/skiffle/prog rock of Strapping Fieldhands? If not, Wattle & Daub, the Philadelphia five-piece's first CD (after four years of LPs, EPs, and 7-inches) will be just the fix for your quirk-rock jones. The group has all the prerequisites to make it your new favorite-band-that-your-friends-never-heard-of: like GBV, the Fieldhands are Anglophiles, mostly over age 35, who prefer the tape hiss of home recording and make songs with strange titles ("Scuttled Kayak Odyssey," "Ben Franklin Airbath") and even stranger reference points (Lonnie Donegan, Syd Barrett). Best of all, with a sound that approximates Pavement imitating Herman's Hermits doing a cover of Bob Dylan's "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35," the Fieldhands manage to create seriously art-damaged music while still remaining loads of fun. --Roni Sarig

Customer Reviews:

Weird and wonderful!!.......2000-12-22

Middle aged, drunken pirates singing surreal pop songs just for you! Welcome to the world of the Strapping Fieldhands. If you like your music eccentric, literate and catchy, I highly recommend this. These guys must have huge record collections which obviously include the Clean, Beatles, early Pink Floyd, T Rex, the Fugs and other psychedelic/folk/garage classics. The songs on this record are all memorable, if not remarkable. Apparently recorded at home and in the studio, most tracks have distinguishing flourishes of strings, tin whistles, and whacked-out guitars. The singer sounds world weary and slightly intoxicated as he croons his bizarre fables and observations of some mythic, parallel universe. Despite these and other intentional avant-garde-isms, most of the songs are very catchy and quite humorous.

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The Flowering of English Song Manufacturer: Centaur ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Holst | Holst, Gustav | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Vaughan Williams, Ralph | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000057TR Release Date: 1993-11-04

Tracks:

1. Restless River
2. Ushas (Dawn)
3. Varuna I (Sky)
4. Maruts (Stormclouds)
5. Earth's Call: A Sylvan Rhapsody
6. Blind
7. The Cost
8. The Last Invocation
9. The Love Song Of The Birds
10. The New Ghost
11. The Water Mill
12. Under the Greenwood Tree
13. Eilidh My Fawn
14. Closing Doors
15. Thy Dark Eyes To Mine
16. A Celtic Lullaby
17. At The Last
18. The Graceful Swaying Wattle
19. Adoration
20. Love Is Meant To Make Us Glad
21. The Second Minuet
22. Trust Her Not!

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6. American Evergreens & Sousa Favorites
7. A New Life
8. A Proper Fucking Punk Album
9. Baby Gimme Love
10. Before the Night's Around Me [Import]

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