Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer
曲目リスト
1 | Suffer For Fashion |
2 | Sink The Seine |
3 | Cato As A Pun |
4 | Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse |
5 | Gronlandic Edit |
6 | Sentence Of Sorts In Kongsvinger, A |
7 | Past Is A Grotesque Animal, The |
8 | Bunny Ain't No Kind Of Rider |
9 | Faberge Falls For Shuggie |
10 | Labyrinthian Pomp |
11 | She's A Rejecter |
12 | We Were Born The Mutants Again With Leafling |
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Over the last three years, the Athens, GA band has become fan-adored for their dance party inducing live shows and critically lauded fro 2004's Satanic Panic in the Attic and 2005's the Sunland Twins. Now, Of Montreal have created a career- defining masterpieces with Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? It's an irresistible and remarkable album, sounding like a logical extension of the erratic indie-disco sounds of the Sunlandic Twins. After 200+ shows in sixteen months (including jaw-dropping performances at Lollapalooza and Bumbershoot) and Sunlandic Twins sales exceeding 50,000 the sky is the limit for Hissing Fauna.
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At first they were very twee. Then they were disco-punk, sort of. And now they are one. Kevin Barnes, this enigmatic band's prolific singer-songwriter, wrote and recorded much of this album alone, though he did enlist the help of a few friends (Alabee Blonde, the Late B.P. Helium and Heather McIntosh). Programmed handclaps, looped semi-funky bass and synth washes are the main ingredient on the Athens-based dude's Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?. Thankfully, he's still intent on mixing and matching disparate genres at whim, throwing Beach Boys' harmonies atop songs that sound more than a little like a Bowie-Eno collaboration. Lyrically, these might be the most personal songs Barnes has written. Sonically it's solid, but not as fully realized as the band's prior albums. As with any "growing pains" record, Destroyer might not make many new fans, but old ones will be pleased. The real breakthrough number, the song that hopefully hints at the band's next direction, is the twelve minute "Past Is a Grotesque Animal," a lovely and percolating New Wave motorik number that recalls the neon splendor of La Dusseldorf while referencing Georges Bataille. It's really good, and makes the listener fondly yearn for one's college days. --Mike McGonigal
Product Description
During the last three years of Montreal have been on a tear: releasing 2004's Satanic Panic in the Attic and 2005's The Sunlandic Twins and spreading their dance party-inducing live shows to the masses. Now, of Montreal have created their masterpiece with Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? It's an irresistible and remarkable album, sounding like a logical extension of the erratic indie-disco sounds of The Sunlandic Twins. However, Hissing Fauna is also the most personal of Montreal album to date, with Kevin Barnes, lead of Montreal songwriter, pouring tremendous amounts of emotion, heartbreak, frustration and elation into its twelve tracks. Written and recorded primarily during what he calls "an insane year," Hissing Fauna sees Barnes adopt a new writing style. It's an unabashedly autobiographical attempt from a songwriter whose early material tended towards characters and story-songs. Barnes continues down the whimsical pop funk path, while changing up its lyrical scope; and Hissing Fauna balances its poppy nature while showcasing brutal and unflinching honesty.
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- 製品サイズ : 14.71 x 14.3 x 0.79 cm; 75.98 g
- メーカー : Polyvinyl Records
- EAN : 0644110012425
- 商品モデル番号 : 2088510
- オリジナル盤発売日 : 2007
- SPARSコード : DDD
- レーベル : Polyvinyl Records
- ASIN : B000KWZ94U
- ディスク枚数 : 1
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レビューのフィルタリング中に問題が発生しました。後でもう一度試してください。
ダンス色の強い打ち込み中心のトラックと、どこか無邪気で人懐っこいメロディーが渾然一体となって、変わっているけどポップで不思議な音楽世界を響かせています。
日本盤には同時期にリリースされたEP「Icons, Abstract Thee」がボーナストラックとして収録されていています。
また歌詞対訳とバンドの中心人物ケヴィン・バーンズによるアルバム収録曲のライナーノーツの原文と訳も載っています。
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Nel complesso non male, ma occorrerebbe fare più attenzione nell'imballaggio.
What's more painful is the fact that this is a truly beautiful album design. The songs were pressed onto audiophile 180g vinyl, which maybe doesn't really make a difference in sound quality (there seems to be a lot of debate about this online), but it definitely adds a heft and (I don't doubt) a degree of durability not present in "normal" or "average" vinyl. The artwork is fascinating, and enhances the themes dealt with by the material to a large degree. The packaging is a great companion piece to the music - try thumbing through it and studying the designs while the music plays, and you'll see what I mean. It just matches that high-intensity feeling of anxiety present throughout the album, and maybe represents the tunnel vision of the protagonist. Though that is of course speculation on my part.
The used condition is a bummer to me, since I paid for a new record. Maybe a big fan ordered a new copy, arranged a return, and sent back the copy that had been in their collection for five years . . . I dunno. I'll have a new factory-sealed copy arrive on Wednesday, though, and this used vinyl will do just fine until then.
The music itself is some of the best I've ever heard. The way the artist blends his seeming hysteria and heartbreak into so many sounds create a sort of kaleidoscopic effect - you know you've felt this before, but you've never heard it expressed this way. Just listen to the highway-racing sounds of "The Past is a Grotesque Animal," a song that threatens to lose all control throughout a fever-pitched delirium of anxiety and shame. Or listen to the proud and celebratory noises on "A Sentence of Sorts in Kongsvinger;" instrumentation and melody seemingly set as contrast to the deep depression the lyrics expertly detail. This is a must-have for anyone who craves avant-garde or emotionally investigative music. Let your soul settle into this techno-spiked mind-spiral of a record, and enjoy the ride.
I'll update this review once I've received my replacement copy with any relevant information.
Notez bien que ce n'est pas un groupe canadien, mais de Athens en Géorgie, berceau des romantiques R.E.M. Tout comme ses collègues cités plus haut (jetez donc une oreille à Illinoise de Sufjan Stevens, c'est un excellent disque), Of Montreal partage cette pop alambiquée et musicalement riche, que ce soit en nombre d'instruments ou en arrangements, cherchant sans cesse à ajouter des couches partout, à rallonger les titres des chansons (exemple : le premier single s'appelle "Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse", mais son refrain qui enchaîne le même mot 'chemicals' est plus facile à retenir ; oui, cela parle de médicaments), à enchaîner les morceaux sans bouffée d'air possible.
Et pas seulement les titres, mais également les albums. Hissing Fauna, are you the destroyer ? est le huitième album de Of Montreal, et il date de 2007. Depuis, ils en ont sorti cinq autres ainsi qu'un recueil de premiers titres. Pour illustrer cette foisonnante activité, les pochettes et les présentations des disques suivent le mouvement : dessins baroques surchargés de détails, colorés, rappelant les hippies, le psychédélisme des années 60, le rococo. Bref, ça déborde à tous les niveaux.
Il faut donc un certain temps pour s'habituer à cet univers chamarré, mais Hissing Fauna fait un peu exception : l'album est plutôt sombre malgré ses refrains endiablés et son rythme trépidant que rien n'arrête (quasi impossible de couper le disque une fois lancé, tout s'enchaîne trop vite), arrivant dans une période de dépression de Kevin Barnes, sa pochette est surtout noire, et le titre pivot de onze minutes rappelle Kraftwerk, de l'electro martiale et répétitive. Malgré tout, la voix ne peut pas se transformer à ce point, et la chaleur et la détresse qui en suintent n'ont jamais la noirceur de la cold-wave. La suite ressemble par moments à du Prince. J'adorerai mettre certains passages pour faire danser les foules.
Comme toujours lorsque je me sens blasé de tout, un objet unique apparaît, et même s'il appartient à un monde nouveau et déjà fourni qui m'est totalement inconnu, il ouvre des perspectives, comble des creux, ose les influences passées sans honte. Le rock est vieux et je me dis presque quotidiennement qu'il est mort, mais il renaît trop souvent pour qu'il ne continue pas malgré tout. Peu importe sa simplicité, il peut se métisser à l'envi. Il mute, il évolue, comme toute forme de vie.
Getting back to the Indie-Rock thing, when friends first shared albums of that genre with me, my typical response was something like, "OK, this genre has potential, but..." I felt like most of the bands had a cool sound but it was being created by musicians of moderate proficiency and half-baked songwriting chops. Not so with this album. The players are all clearly fantastic on their instruments, and like another reviewer mentioned, the tunes are not only loaded with clever, catchy hooks, they are poetic and complex rhythmically, melodically, and harmonically. Lest I dork out anymore than I already have, I'll quit my praise here, but I'll most likely be ordering more of their albums and taking great pleasure in discovering what I've been missing.