Artist : Chubby Wolf
Title : Turkey Decoy
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2011
Date : 10/2011
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 10
Label : Digitalis Recordings
Source : Vinyl
Encoder : Lame 3.98.4
Length : 45:46 min
Size : 71,4 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Cantankerous Baby 03:57
02.Birthday Suit 03:49
03.Short Dick 03:02
04.Sushi On A Hot Day 03:36
05.Ratting Mandibles 10:54
06.Prescient Inspiration 03:04
07.If There's An Elephant In The Room, 04:07
Introduce It
08.Cruel Sausage, Gentle Fingers 01:57
09.Scalloped Toes 06:16
10.Intrusively Coexisting 05:04
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45:46 min
Chubby Wolf was the moniker used by the
late Dani Baquet-Long of Celer for her
subdued world of sound. With the help of
Dani's husband and Celer's other half,
Will Long, the final Chubby Wolf
recordings are finally seeing the light
of day and the world is a better place
because of it. Turkey Decoy represents
some of her most accessible work.
As the album opens with ôCantankerous
Baby,ö you immediately drift away on
cybernetic clouds. Soothing as it may
seem, this song is transportive. It's
like endlessly floating though an
unknown haze built around processed
vocals and sample-ridden electric
guitar. As you continue dreaming through
the morose romanticism of pieces like
ôShort Dickö and ôPrescient
Inspiration,ö there's an understated
carnality that weaves its way into this
music. ôIf There's An Elephant in the
Roomö pulls back the curtain and reveals
a breathless aftermath punctuated by
distant piano chords and sprawling
drones. Each swell of Baquet-Long's
voice makes you want to avert your eyes,
unsure if this is something you're
supposed to see.
Turkey Decoy evolves delicately. Each
layer is an article of clothing, slowly
removed until there's nothing left to
hide. This is Dani Baquet-Long at her
most visceral. Every quirk and
imperfection is on display as if there
wasn't any other way to exist. It's
intense.
Closing out the album, ôScalloped Toesö
and ôIntrusively Coexistingö wrap things
up with an elegant sweetness as
everything comes full circle. The former
is swimming in warm, relaxing tones that
bleed into the barking and howling of
Dani's beloved wolves that begin the
last song on the album. ôIntrusively
Coexistingö is vaguely gloomy and leaves
lingering questions about all that came
before. It's the right way to end such a
raw album because the only thing left to
do is go back to the beginning and try
to figure it out all over again.
Art by Dani Baquet-Long. Cut & mastered
at D+M Berlin. Initial copies on clear
vinyl.s
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