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artist : Morel
title : Lucky Strike
record label : Yoshitoshi Recordings
year : 2004
genre : Electronic / House
release-date : 10/13/2004
ripped by : Tronik
source : CDDA
format : 44.1 kHz VBR LAME version 3.90.3 MMX
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01 | Cheerful | 07:34
02 | Making Sense | 04:34
03 | If You Love Me | 04:45
04 | Waiting on You | 03:40
05 | I'll Do What I Can Not to Touch You (Part 1) | 04:03
06 | Tennessee Violet | 06:08
07 | Heaven 65 | 05:35
08 | American Flag | 04:47
09 | This Song is Broken | 04:34
10 | Lucky Strike | 02:17
11 | I'll Do What I Can Not to Touch You (Part 2) | 06:00
12 | Algebra | 05:12
13 | Under A Disco | 07:42
14 | Escape (Driving to Heaven) (Morel and 16B) | 06:24
14 tracks (73:15 min) 108,5 MB
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From msopr.com :
"Around Washington D.C., the acrid buzz of hardcore still hangs
heavy in the breeze and its grit caked between sidewalk cracks, but
since the noisy heyday of Minor Threat and Fugazi, D.C. has had to
make room for a few new sounds: R&B, soul, garage rock-- even
Richard Morel's eclectic vision of electro-rock as heard on his
second album for Yoshitoshi Records, LUCKY STRIKE.
"The scene's changing," says Richard Morel, longtime D.C. resident
and leader of the cities favorite electro-rock pioneers, MOREL.
"Punk isn't quite as dominating as it was in the past. We're at an
amazing window of time, and because our band is a hybrid, people
treat us well."
And why shouldn't they. As a high-profile fixture of the local
electronica underworld, Morel has collaborated with Deep Dish and
remixed Depeche Mode, New Order and The Pretenders. His work with
Deep Dish has included mixing and engineering credits to their
Grammy Award-winning remix of DidoÆs ôThank Youö, co-writing and
singing and performing on their debut critically acclaimed album
Junk Science as well as singing and co-writing three new songs for
their upcoming release due out later this year.
In addition to all this, Morel has also formed a duo with punk
rock pioneer Bob Mould called Blowoff. As Blowoff, they throw a
weekly underground DJ party at D.CÆs 9:30 Club (look also for their
debut CD early next year). While Morel's gilded fingers have
garnered a cupboardful of hardware and loads of street cred, it's
his rock n' roll heart that has helped him create a style that owes
as much to Keith Richard's licks as the dancefloor blips.
"Sometimes I think indie rock heads get us more than house heads,"
says Morel. "That's why I make my 12-inch mixes more club-oriented.
It's a bit of a sore spot, but I guess it's a blessing to have such
a problem."
On the band's new album Lucky Strike, Morel once again pushes the
limits of just what electro-pop can be. Taking the best elements of
both, he conjures up seductive lounge exhales and breakneck kick
drum chases that never isolate the headsÆ need to bang or the asses
longing to shake. Lucky Strike is at once a continuation of the 2002
debut Queen of the Highway (which spawned the three hit club singles
Cabaret,True, and Funny Car) as a dramatic leap forward for his
unique style of progressive house music. Morel it's his
band--guitarist John Allen, drummer Rob Black, bassist Pat Flood and
percussionist/vocalist Dwayne Tyree--and their road-worn style that
deserves a lot of the credit.
"There's definitely more of a band feel on these tracks," explains
Morel. "Playing shows together allowed us to work stuff out and push
this to an almost live-sounding album." That's because almost every
track on Lucky Strike is a constantly morphing chameleon.
A cut like "Cheerful," with its caroming bi-polar disorder, drags
the listener through string interludes and sly piano breakdowns
before shoving them through the final few minutes with a propulsive
snare. There's even two versions of the song "I'll Do What I Can Not
To Touch You"--one an almost dirge-like dirty soul song; the other a
percolating dance floor lament. And for those hard-core Morel fans,
the airy vocal and guitar part driven Escape (Driving To Heaven) his
dance-floor masterpiece with 16B that originally appeared on Deep
Dish's Global Underground #021: Moscow emerges again on Lucky Strike
and is also making waves in Mitsubishi's current TV ad campaign in
Europe.
More importantly--and more groundbreaking in the realm of dance
music--people are actually listening to the words ducking and diving
between the pounding beats. "People come up to me and say they love
my lyrics," he says with a laugh, "Then they proceed to quote
something that's not at all what I said, but I wish I'd had." Queen
of the Highway is brain massaging electronica with songs like "Ride"
and the ultra-seedy "All Of The Sweet Ones." On the title song Lucky
Strike, Morel's penchant for wringing every last drop of heart and
soul from each track has only sharpened.
"The themes are pretty simple," he says. "The classic pop thing:
relationships breaking down or working. This time maybe it's more
third person and in a story context than the last album, but still
pretty dark." Surprisingly, Morel, known for the outspoken nature of
his lyrics, decided to keep his fingers out of the well-tilled
political soil. "Those themes are too big for a four-minute pop
song," he says. "The Clash is one of my all-time favorite bands, but
now it seems I prefer when music isn't so literally political."
While he's chosen to allow the politicians to run themselves into
the ground, Morel is not afraid to picture himself as a
revolutionary of sorts. While rock and dance have been holding hands
for years, it's generally been a tentative flirtation. Morel's skill
at smashing the two together in a dramatic electro-rock sandwich is
a bold inspiring mix that now includes followers like
indie-electronica acts The Postal Service and The Notwist.
"Time is helping me out now--I'm not alone," he says. "The coolest
thing about house music in '95 was it was the only place you were
hearing new stuff; rock had petered out, hip-hop was repeating, but
you'd go to the club and you could hear tribal, underground house.
The one thing I always thought was that this, coupled with good
songwriting, would be the bomb."
Eight years later, Morel is the man lighting the fuse."
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