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Artist | Wreckless Eric
Title | America
Genre | Alternative Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 35:58
Label | Fire Records Store | 2015
Catalog | FIRECD418 Rip | 2016
Bitrate | 239 kbps Size | 64.79 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. Several Shades Of Green 3:24
02. Sysco Trucks 2:36
03. White Bread 4:23
04. Transitory Thing 5:03
05. Days Of My Life 1:52
06. Boy Band 4:29
07. Property Shows 3:24
08. Up The Fuselage 2:18
09. Space Age 2:50
10. Life Eternal 2:45
11. Have A Great Day 2:54
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Wreckless Eric gained notoriety as part of Stiff Records' highly eccentric
roster of punk and new wave artists during the late 70s. With his whiny,
slurred cockney voice, Eric couldn't always carry a tune, but that didn't
prevent him from being an enjoyable, rough-hewn rock & roller with a clever
streak. With his early Stiff singles "Whole Wide World", "Semaphore
Signals" and "Take The Cash (K.A.S.H.)", Eric bashed out a series of
ragged, chaotic, three-chord punk-pop singles driven by his pent-up energy
and a knack for melodic pop hooks. Wreckless Eric never had a big pop hit,
but his engaging sense of humor and fondness for simple rock & roll helped
make him a cult figure who continued to have a following into the 90s and
beyond.
Eric is the sort of artist who is commonly described as quintessentially
British, even though he's been bouncing about Europe and the United States
for a few decades; both his voice and his lyrical outlook are echoes of
pubs and bedsits, even after he settled down in France. After relocating to
Hudson, New York, Eric decided to make a concept album about the United
States as seen through his eyes, and it's fitting that 2015's "America"
(or, as it's spelled on the cover, amERICa) sounds like nothing so much as
a Wreckless Eric record, built from the wobbly notes of a slightly
eccentric outsider who is at once fascinated and bemused by the big country
in which he's landed.
Eric rarely painted a rosy portrait of British life, so it's only fair he
doesn't seem to feel much different about his new home in the States; he
marvels at the fact every diner seems to have the same food, he bristles at
getting stuck in a small town where nothing seems to happen, he ponders the
curious notion that he's even more obscure in America than he was in the
UK, and he can't quite suss out the rote cheeriness of the strangers he
meets. Wreckless Eric has always seems like an outsider at heart wherever
he lands, and "America" gives him a bigger canvas than ever in which to
feel out of place, and while Eric's vague grumpiness is showing here, he
also offers clues that there are things in America he likes, at least when
it comes to music and the unfortunate career trajectories of US boy bands.
And while Eric has been making his records at home using rescued gear for
some time now, "America" shows he's getting better at it. While he's
inexplicably fond of a synthesized choral effect, for the most part this
album sounds clear but homebrewed at the same time, with charm making less
of a sacrifice on fidelity. "America" is a reminder that life in these
United States isn't going to change one of the great eccentrics of British
rock, and he might even walk away a better and more perceptive songwriter
if this music is any indicator.
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