| Vanderslice, John / Dagger Beach |
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| Album: | Dagger Beach | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Vanderslice, John | Added: | Jul 2013 | |
| Label: | Self-Release | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2013-07-08 | Pull Date: | 2013-09-08 |
| Week Ending: | Sep 8 | Sep 1 | Aug 25 | Aug 18 | Aug 11 | Jul 28 | Jul 14 |
| Airplays: | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Nov 01, 2014: | Music Casserole Gaslight | 4. | Sep 04, 2013: | Meow After Midnight Gaslight | |
| 2. | Apr 23, 2014: | A Family Affair Sleep It Off | 5. | Sep 01, 2013: | Tragical History Tour Interlude #1 | |
| 3. | Sep 07, 2013: | Fried Egg Gaslight | 6. | Aug 31, 2013: | Music Casserole North Coast Rep |
| Album Review |
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| Eme O Reviewed 2013-07-08 | ||
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John Vanderslice - Dagger Beach - Indie/shoegaze - Vox, guitar, drums, Kickstarter-financed self-released ninth album from local musician, producer, recording engineer. Per wikipedia, the “owner and founder of Tiny Telephone, a San Francisco Mission District analog recording studio.” Slowish, gentle/dreamy/chill, upbeat in a way that’s not cheerful or sunny. No straight-ahead ‘guy with a guitar’-ness here; this fellow likes his post-production. No FCCs detected. ~eme o. 1. Raw Wood (3:17) Ruminating on the self that exists beneath the veneer (or varnish, if you will). Guitar, drums, piano punctuations 2. Harlequin Press (3:27) Starts of with a whirl of sound fronted by a washboard. Changes nature after the briefest of drum solos ~0:18. Somewhat tribal drum. Squeebly birdsong, gentle flute add brightness to the mix. 3. Song for Dana Lok (2:21) Bright guitar picking, almost folksy (or Shins-y). Pure-sounding, yet still with inorganic elements. 4. How the West Was Won (3:47) Starts out sounding almost like electronica. Locked drums, twinkly stars, toy xylophone? 5. Interlude #1 (2:11) Ambient soundscape. A bit like floatnig through a space with set obstacles and then the occasional comet zooming by. Metronome-like cymbal. * 6. Song for David Berman (4:54) Sensitive guitar. Restful tone. If not a love song, then an expression of deep appreciation. 7. Damage Control (4:21) Starts off rather Talking Heads-y. Simple Minds crashes the party ~1:08, then goes home ~1:28. Oh, wait, they just went around the corner and came back ~2:39. * 8. Songs for the Landlords of Tiny Telephone (1:32) Jazz-style noodling on guitar, bass. (The only song here John Vanderslice did not write.) * 9. Gaslight (2:45) Lurching rhythm between drum and guitar sections, vocals out of time also. Unsettling (perhaps unsurprisingly, considering the song title). Hint of South Africa in the electric guitar. Rhythm changes ~2:00, becoming more standard. 10. Sleep it off (2:43) Soundtrack for a relationship status change. “It’s complicated.” 11. Sonogram (2:24) Ticking clock, that vaguely South African guitar (which I now recognize as shades of Vampire Weekend), lots of background whooshes. 12. North Coast Rep (4:05) Electronic squiggles in background, vox at the forefront, harmonizing voice on chorus (maybe female, maybe male falsetto). 13. Interlude #2 (0:47) A brief ambient outro | ||
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