| Pinkmountain, Scott And The Golden Bolts Of Tone / Full Sun, The |
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| Album: | Full Sun, The | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Pinkmountain, Scott And The Golden Bolts Of Tone | Added: | Mar 2009 | |
| Label: | Howells Transmitter | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2009-06-21 | Pull Date: | 2009-08-23 |
| Week Ending: | Aug 9 | Aug 2 | Jul 26 | Jul 19 | Jul 5 | Jun 28 |
| Airplays: | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Sep 10, 2009: | The Songsmith Show Song Of Solomon | 4. | Aug 06, 2009: | in the groove Lucy | |
| 2. | Aug 08, 2009: | lost and found Song Of Solomon | 5. | Jul 30, 2009: | in the groove Lucy | |
| 3. | Aug 08, 2009: | Music Casserole To Love Is To Die | 6. | Jul 25, 2009: | Music Casserole Song Of Solomon |
| Album Review |
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| Frank Jackson Reviewed 2009-06-17 | ||
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Folksy, jazzy avant-garde, orchestral, this album has a lot going on including some really dark, depressing and devastating lyrics, revolving around a love gone wrong. Challenging to listen to at times, I found some interesting things here. Start with 1, 4, 6, 12. No FCC’s. 1. (3:47) Slow/Mid. Begins with minimal instrumentation of piano and voice leading to a full band with strings. A bit of Josh Ritter, folksy. 2. (5:35) Mid. Ominous with big band, brooding lyrics. Quieter passages with electric guitar solos and background band. 3. (1:36) Mid. Cecil Taylor on acid. Avant-garde jazz, with dreamy ending. Leads into… 4. (5:50) Mid/Fast. Dual drums open, electric guitar a la 70’s classic rock. The music and lyrics seems to try, unsuccessfully, to sound like Zappa. Tripped-out guitar solo half-way through, very psychedelic. Cool organ, leads into… 5. (3:36) Mid. Finishing thought of previous song to begin, then transcends into guitar drone and trippy, jazzy drumming. Really spacey shit. 6. (10:09) Slow/Mid. Return to ‘normalcy’, with sparse instrumentation and focus on lyrics, which are dark and foreboding. 7. (14:06) Mid. Avant-garde beginning with crazy horns, mellows out a bit, then in comes orchestral instruments. Lyrics of despair and darkness. Instrumental part in middle with electric guitar soloing. A roller coaster of emotional passages, very dramatic. Ends with a drum march and bleeds into… 8. (1:23) Slow. Percussion madness under a psychotic male/female humming. 9. (3:41) Mid. Drum-heavy, 60’s, 70’s retro sound, maybe a bit Beach Boys. Cool change half-way through. Nice standard instrumentation, bleeds into… 10. (0:50) Slow. Droney type stuff. 11. (6:51) Slow/Mid. Dark lyrics with similar dark instrumentation, including a gong and psychotic organ. Heavy shit, would not fit in well at a wedding. 12. (7:52) Slow/Mid. Strumming guitar and vocal, self-loathing lyrics. Cool organ and horn passage. Great background vocals. Big wall of sound ending, fades out, with 15 seconds of silence at end. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Song Of Solomon | 7. | Unforgiven | |||
| 2. | I Shall Not Be Released | 8. | Sundowing | |||
| 3. | Solar Flare | 9. | You Gave Me This | |||
| 4. | Lucy | 10. | Dusk | |||
| 5. | Supernova | 11. | Angel Of Death | |||
| 6. | Abyssinia | 12. | To Love Is To Die |