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pyt Presents:
Artist: Viva Voce
Title: The Heat Can Melt Your Brain
Record Label: Minty Fresh
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Ripped Date: 09/27/2004
Street Date: 09/00/2004
Genre: Indie
ripper: str
Source: CDDA
Grabber: EAC
Encoder: Lame 3.90.3 --alt-preset standard
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Release Information
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There's a repeating scene in my house in which one
member of the household will ask the other, "Anything
you want to do this weekend?" and the asked will respond
with something along the lines of, "I dunno. Was there
anything you wanted to do?" Ultimately, a weekend
itinerary is cobbled together off the cuff, bike rides
and drives to Evanston sandwiched around chores and
weekend work. It's not a perfect system, but it works
okay and leaves room for spontaneous frozen custard
runs. In the house of Anita & Kevin Robinson of
Portland, Oregon, I imagine the conversation goes more
like this:
Anita: "What do you want to do this weekend?"
Kevin: "I dunno. Cut a record?"
Anita: "Sure. Let's set up the living room."
The couple makes their music a part of their domestic
life, recording as a duo in their own abode-- their Big
Pink if you like. Their music doesn't really betray
their personal relationship to one another in any
specific terms, but it definitely has that home-cooked
feel that announces its humble origins, even as their
third album, The Heat Can Melt Your Brain, enters
moodier, more dramatic territory than its predecessors.
The Robinsons are nothing if not ambitious, and their
songs have blossomed into involved, thoughtfully
arranged opuses that easily fold bells, celeste, saw,
kazoo and surprisingly complex backing harmonies into
their varied sections.
The Heat Can Melt Your Brain opens with "Alive with
Pleasure", which sets a crunching burst of frazzled fuzz
bass and bowed saw against the airy sing-song melody
that Anita swings between weightless and propulsive
passages. This all leads up to a nasty guitar outburst--
one of many showcases Anita's supple playing receives
throughout the album, from the backward slashes that cut
the inky funk of "Business Casual" to the spacey
eagletoned interjections on "The Center of the
Universe". The latter is one of the album's finest
songs, as Kevin's verse vocal echoes over watery organ
and thumping drums, building to a strident, majestic
chorus. He also manages to squeeze in one of the album's
most openly sentimental verses: "The center of my heart
is a beautiful girl/ One tear from her face could
destroy the world."
Kevin gets the lead on "High Highs", as well, a smoothly
funky tune with a simmering, R&B-inflected chorus, and
one of the duo's most adventurous songs to date. That
it's wedged between Anita's floating guitar freakout
"The Lucky Ones" and the mellotron- and synth-drenched
indie rock thump of "Daylight" is a stark illustration
of the band's range, which extends even further on
closer "They Never Really Wake Up", a gauzy interstellar
lounge cut stuffed with wordless vocals and a bass part
that Air by all rights should have included on Moon
Safari. It's hard to say exactly where Viva Voce ought
to be filed, as they've more or less slid out of any one
category on The Heat Can Melt Your Brain. This, however,
is an asset in my book, and a sign that Viva Voce's
conflation of domestic and creative life is working
wonderfully. -pitchforkmedia.com
vivavoce.com
Enjoy!
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Track Listing:
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No. Time Track Title
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01. 04:32 Alive with Pleasure
02. 02:27 Lesson No. 1
03. 03:46 Business Casual
04. 03:01 The Lucky Ones
05. 02:56 High Highs
06. 04:12 Daylight
07. 04:16 The Center of the Universe
08. 03:12 Free Nude Celebs
09. 03:12 Mixtape = Love
10. 06:08 They Never Really Wake Up
Total time: 37:42 .. Total Size: 56,2MB
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