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Artist...: Larsen
Album....: Cool Cruel Mouth
Genre....: Avantgarde
Label....: important records
Source...: CDDA
Size.....: 106,40 MB
Playtime.: 59:16 min
Type.....: Album
` Release..: Jul-08-2012
Encoder..: LAME V3.98.4 -V0
` Quality..: avgkbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo
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| X | 01. It Was A Very Good Year 03:59 | X |
| X | 02. Existential Joe 07:04 | X |
| X | 03. Dyslexic Haiku 08:49 | X |
| X | 04. 12 Eyes 06:12 | X |
| X | 05. Annie's Rap 05:59 | X |
| X | 06. These Are the Things 06:37 | X |
| X | 07. Ohm Av. D 05:54 | X |
| X | 08. Unheard of Hope 04:19 | X |
| X | 09. Viggo 10:23 | X |
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`: Torino-based experimentalists and :'
`: kings of collaboration Larsen have :'
`: come up with one of the surprise :'
`: albums of the year, an oddly- :'
`: inspiring mix of post-rock and dark :'
`: electronica, recorded with veteran :'
`: underground singer Little Annie :'
`: ÆAnxietyÆ Bandez from New York. The :'
`: result is a sort of claustrophobic :'
`: lounge-jazz with menace. Imagine Lou :'
`: Reed singing in some downtown Berlin :'
`: bar backed by prog legends Can, :'
`: possibly with Low-phase Bowie and :'
`: Eno twiddling the knobs - Cool Cruel :'
`: Mouth is surely the chilling æanti- :'
`: heroÆ soundtrack of the summer, and :'
`: worth a listen for just sounding so :'
`: different from anything else around. :'
`: :'
`: Little Annie has been trampling on :'
`: peopleÆs delicate sensibilities for :'
`: several decades now, poking around :'
`: in The Big AppleÆs cultural :'
`: underbelly with her hysterical rants :'
`: against suburban sterililty and :'
`: conformity, like one of Henry :'
`: MillerÆs fact or fictional :'
`: characters in æTropic Of CancerÆ. :'
`: Short of inspiration, Frank Zappa :'
`: famously recounts watching Annie And :'
`: The Assexuals in the 80s struggling :'
`: through their set at the legendary :'
`: MaxÆs Kansas City Club, the perfect :'
`: tonic from all the stiffs in LA and :'
`: rich material for his next comic- :'
`: strip band on æJoeÆs GarageÆ :'
`: (Gorillaz take note please). Her :'
`: voice has now mellowed from :'
`: thorazine-induced shrieks to smoky :'
`: contralto chanteuse, but the :'
`: unsettling qualities are still :'
`: there, and the story-telling on Cool :'
`: Cruel Mouth is just that, very :'
`: telling! :'
`: :'
`: AnnieÆs talent is chameleon-like, :'
`: and over the years she has worked :'
`: with artists as diverse as Paul :'
`: Sherwood (dub), Paul Oakenfold (club :'
`: & house), as well as a great roster :'
`: of avant-gardists, like anarcho- :'
`: punks Crass, hard-electronica Coil :'
`: and more recently Nurse With Wound. :'
`: She recently settled with pianist :'
`: Paul Wallfisch, and the duo put out :'
`: a collection of songs last year, :'
`: Genderful, and are touring with Baby :'
`: Dee (who also appears here) and :'
`: rather bizarrely, 80s legend Mark :'
`: Almond. :'
`: :'
`: If you believe life puts us on the :'
`: same flight path for a reason, itÆs :'
`: easy to see how LarsenÆs Cool Cruel :'
`: Mouth might have come about, with :'
`: their 15 years of creative output :'
`: producing 13 albums so far, but very :'
`: hard to find two alike. The band are :'
`: happy to let mystery and fate :'
`: intertwine, and often work with :'
`: other musicians, their meandering :'
`: and menacing cinematic-scope :'
`: soundtracks lending themselves well :'
`: to anybody with a story to tell, :'
`: particularly an unsettling one. :'
`: :'
`: So æIt Was A Very Good YearÆ turns :'
`: the Frank Sinatra classic on its :'
`: head, the Larsen-Annie version more :'
`: a boozy trip down melancholia lane :'
`: than anything nostalgic, sobered up :'
`: ever-so-slightly by that æfuneralÆ :'
`: piano accompaniment. Memories come :'
`: flooding back from the bottom of the :'
`: whisky glass, but are quickly put to :'
`: bed for the last time, hopefully :'
`: along with Robbie WilliamÆs awful :'
`: cover with OlÆ Blue Eyes a few years :'
`: ago. Hardly a radical re- :'
`: interpretation, but the singerÆs :'
`: vulnerability set against the Larsen :'
`: soundtrack, dark, creepy and :'
`: atmospheric, sets the hairs-a- :'
`: running. That æHitchcockÆ effect, :'
`: that everythingÆs not as it should :'
`: be, provides a perfect touchstone :'
`: for the rest of the album. :'
`: :'
`: Cool Cruel Mouth keeps us in the :'
`: dark and stirs up as many ghosts as :'
`: it lays to rest, but like a nice :'
`: full-bodied red it deserves to be :'
`: savoured drop-by-drop. Larson have :'
`: staked out the territory in the two :'
`: opening songs, but donÆt imagine :'
`: that itÆs just more of the same, as :'
`: Larsen build their soundtrack up :'
`: layer by layer. æDyslexic HaikuÆ is :'
`: largely instrumental, the post-rock :'
`: guitar feedback and piano eventually :'
`: joined at the end by some distant :'
`: wailing noises. æEyesÆ has some :'
`: wonderful trippy electric piano and :'
`: odd grinding noises, and there are :'
`: further atmospherics with a hypnotic :'
`: drum sound on æThese Are The :'
`: ThingsÆ, evocative of NicoÆs final :'
`: art-rock flings on 1985's Camera :'
`: Obscura. The strange ambience on :'
`: æOhm Av. DÆ is again joined by some :'
`: voices-in-the-head chanting (the :'
`: ghost of æMe & Mrs JonesÆ), and :'
`: æUnheard Of HopeÆ is a last- :'
`: despairing gasp for love. æViggoÆ :'
`: plays us out instrumentally and :'
`: rather grandly, the epilogue is a :'
`: post-rock signature, with Baby Dee :'
`: on upright keyboard. :'
`: :'
`: Beautiful enough, but step aside for :'
`: the main feature, six-minute epic :'
`: æAnnieÆs RapÆ with the singer :'
`: regaling us of a doomed romantic :'
`: liaison in a downtown bar on New :'
`: York 34th street. ôI like that in a :'
`: manö, Annie raps continually, but :'
`: somebody spiked the drinks as the :'
`: story unravels, and the band play :'
`: on, something like æThe GiftÆ from :'
`: the Velvet UndergroundÆs classic :'
`: 1968 White Light/White Heat album, :'
`: just without the macabre elements of :'
`: Reed and CaleÆs story. And the :'
`: devilÆs in the detail, the painful :'
`: shoes that didnÆt fit, the Chinese :'
`: doll with the head to one side (or :'
`: was it Japanese?), the flashing :'
`: glances shot across the bar as she :'
`: æstealsÆ a man, then the inevitable :'
`: heartbreak à in AnnieÆs world, like :'
`: the ÆrapÆ from DH LawrenceÆs poem: :'
`: ôthat which is whole, torn asunderö. :'
`: :'
`: For æAnnieÆs RapÆ alone, I would :'
`: recommend Cool Cruel Mouth. I :'
`: havenÆt heard an album as darkly :'
`: compelling since Barry AdamsonÆs :'
`: Oedipus Schmoedipus in 1996. While :'
`: Adamson used a collection of :'
`: vocalists to sketch out a troubled :'
`: narrative of psycho-pathological :'
`: complexes, LarsenÆs approach has :'
`: been to take one person who writhes :'
`: around with many already inside her :'
`: own head. AnnieÆs æAnxietyÆ world is :'
`: the one we fear the most, where life :'
`: is breaking up in front of us, but :'
`: like a musical soundtrack looped in :'
`: the mind, we can either sink deeper :'
`: into the ælabyrinthÆ of mental :'
`: illness or reach for therapy à ôthat :'
`: which is in part, finding its whole :'
`: again throughout the universe.ö :'
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