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October 13, 2008
Ripping Vinyl, part 5
photos by Devon Banks
After many years of musical obsession completely removed from a record player, my pile of vinyl now grows incrementally, aided by the quality LP sellers of New York City. Baubles from the treasure chest will be posted here whenever it seems appropriate...
Adding to the undiscovered mountain of vinyl ephemera that Stereolab has unloaded in their eighteen-year pleasure cruise, are the two tracks of their latest tour-only 7", which I put four dollars towards. In posting them here, I'll note that matters of font and design have left me slightly puzzled in regard to their exact designations. Despite being sung in lilting English, there are no illuminating lyrical cues to isolate to confirm my assumptions about bubble-lettered cursive. My college French has not lingered long enough to identify what are sure some irregular verb tenses. I stand ready to blush, retract, and move on if necessary.
The A-side is a MalletKAT-driven confection, which, at its beginning, sounds like the laser-beam society having their winter party. Laetitia is too grave and dignified for it to sound continually celebratory, however. Though individual words stick to my eardrum occasionally, her voice has such sustained and familiar melodic tone to it, it sounds almost like a specifically cultivated keyboard setting to me at this point. It's a pleasant light breeze--more color than meaning.
Stereolab - "Lexotisme Interieur"
Nervous doesn't seem like the proper descriptor, so let's say that the drum pattern that starts side B is certainly more active, at the very least. The synth bits here almost have a campy 70s "Love Will Keep Us Together" aura, but Sadler has perpetually provided as even coat of class to any backdrop Tim Gane has ever provided. If it doesn't immediately bowl you over with a tight structure, there are myriad pretty textures, vocal and instrumental, to idly notice as the time glides by.
Previously:
- the Raincoats, live @ the BBC
- Linear Movement play "the Game"
- A hole where the Romeo should be
- Pete Shelley, also a homosapien
Posted by Jeff Klingman at October 13, 2008 01:30 PM
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