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░ ▓████▓▌ ░ Artist.......: Doveman ▐▓▀▀
▓ ▐█████▓█ Album........: The Acrobat ▀ ░
▀█▄▓████▓▓▄█▀ Genre........: Indie ░▓ ▌
▄▀██▓██▓▓▀ Language.....: English ░▓░▐▓
▓▓▄▀█▓▓▓▀ Label........: Swim Slowly ░▓░ █▓▌
▐█▓▓ ▀▓ Catnr........: n/a ░▓▓▓ ▐█▓▓
▓█▓▌ URL..........: http://www.dovemanmusic.com/ ▓░ ███▓▓[z0o]░
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░ ░ █▓▌▄▄▄ ▄▓ ░▓▓▓░ source......: CDDA ░▓▓▓▓▓▓░ ▀▓█████▓▓▓
░▓▓░ ▐█▓▓ ░ ░▓▓░ playtime....: 53:25 min ░▓▓ ▐███████▓▓▌ ░
░░ ███▓▓ ▓▓░▓░ rip.date....: 13-08-2005 ░▓▓░ ▓███▀ ▀▓█▓▓ ░
▄▄▄▄▄▓▄▄▓████▓▓▄▄▄▄░▄▄ str.date....: 00-00-0000 ▓ ▐█▓▀ ░ ░▀█▓▌
▀▓█████████████▓▓▓▀ ripper......: JustFunCrew ░▓░ █▀ ░░▓▓▓ ▀▓
░ ▀▓██████▓██▓▓▀ ▓░ grabber.....: EAC V0.95 prebeta 4 ▓▓ ▀░ ░ ░ ░▓░ ░▀
▀▓█████▓▓▓ ░░▓ encoder.....: LAME version 3.90.3 ░▓▓░▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓░
░ ▐███████▓▓▌░▓▓▓░ size........: 66,9 MB ░▓▓▓▓▓ ▓░▓▓░░ ░
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▄▓██░██████▓▓█▀ [ T R A C K . L I S T I N G ] ▀▀▀▓██▓▌
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▓████▓▌ 01. Honey 05:09 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 02. Chasing Clouds 05:36 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 03. Cities 05:06 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 04. Teacup 05:10 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 05. Boy + Angel 08:15 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 06. House 04:38 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 07. Walk on 04:31 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 08. Clouds 06:01 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 09. Drinking 03:37 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 10. Dancing 05:22 ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ [ A B O U T . T H i S . R E L E A S E ] ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Your enjoyment of Doveman will greatly depend on ▓▌
▓████▓▌ whether you can withstand a passionate and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ sustained conversation with a man talking directly ▓▌
▓████▓▌ into your ear. The placement of a dry, quietly sung ▓▌
▓████▓▌ vocal up front in a record's mix is invariably a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ gamble, or rather a hedge of one: Depending on the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ listener's mood, it may be read as DIY ▓▌
▓████▓▌ egalitarianism (reverb is, after all, an intimation ▓▌
▓████▓▌ of distance) or self-admiration. The Angels of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Light records want you to feel the Booker's and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ bile on Michael Gira's breath; the French school ▓▌
▓████▓▌ currently embodied by, say, Keren Ann wants you to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ curl up in bed with every compressed sibilant and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ saliva snap. Doveman's Thomas Bartlett aims for ▓▌
▓████▓▌ neither grit nor seduction; he sings politely, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ quietly, in a halting high voice of a contrite ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ex-boyfriend mid-plea. A cynical first reaction ▓▌
▓████▓▌ would be "emo" or "twee" but, as Doveman's often ▓▌
▓████▓▌ fascinating debut progresses, Bartlett's complete ▓▌
▓████▓▌ lack of histrionics begins to register. He sounds ▓▌
▓████▓▌ hurt but never masochistic, dramatic but never ▓▌
▓████▓▌ vulgar; if this nice boy is this agitated, you ▓▌
▓████▓▌ begin thinking, something must really worry him. I ▓▌
▓████▓▌ better listen on. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ What you will hear: songs that glisten and sway ▓▌
▓████▓▌ like underwater plantlife, delivered by a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ pleasantly bonkers ensemble (the banjo is the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ featured instrument almost throughout, supported by ▓▌
▓████▓▌ violin and Thomas's own accomplished piano and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ organ). The keys handle most of the low end as ▓▌
▓████▓▌ well; the drums, of course, use every available ▓▌
▓████▓▌ technique to avoid sounding "rock"-- brushes, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ muffled toms, weirdly distant cymbals. Live, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Doveman's Dougie Bowne (a downtown legend who had ▓▌
▓████▓▌ drummed for Iggy Pop, among many others) plays a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ crash cymbal that had unpeeled into a long spiral. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ The track names-- "House", "Clouds", "Drinking", ▓▌
▓████▓▌ "Dancing"-- suggest that the songs may have spent ▓▌
▓████▓▌ some time untitled; the compositions themselves, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ however, are elegant, tasteful, top-notch. Aware ▓▌
▓████▓▌ that they are nearing the border between indie pop ▓▌
▓████▓▌ and cocktail jazz (a border it might, in fact, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ behoove the authorities to open), Doveman ▓▌
▓████▓▌ occasionally retreat into light skronk and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ dissonance. They can't help it: the skronk sounds ▓▌
▓████▓▌ decorative, dissonance pretty. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ After the first two slow, mood-programming tracks, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ "Cities" takes the album's by now patented ▓▌
▓████▓▌ instrumentation and vocals on a swinging walk; the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ track is still leisurely by all human standards, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ but in the album's honey-drip universe, it's ▓▌
▓████▓▌ practically a club banger. The piano solo-- a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ pile-up of clashing ragtime licks reminiscent to my ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Russian ears of Sergei Kuryokhin-- is at once the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ song's apex and a tragicomic respite. The ▓▌
▓████▓▌ organ-driven "Teacup", which chastens Bowne's drums ▓▌
▓████▓▌ to approximate a cheap machine's plod and clop, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ swims with mysterious accents and mini-events, and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ wouldn't be out of place on a late-period Yo La ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Tengo LP. The album's undisputable tentpole, as ▓▌
▓████▓▌ evident from its length and strategic placement (on ▓▌
▓████▓▌ vinyl it would have been the Majestic Side One ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Closer) , is "Boy + Angel", which goes enough ▓▌
▓████▓▌ places to justify its eight minutes and wisely ▓▌
▓████▓▌ builds upon an urgent tom-tom throb to which one ▓▌
▓████▓▌ could listen for hours. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ The songs' lyrics, which Bartlett appears to holds ▓▌
▓████▓▌ secondary to the meta-story of his own choked-up ▓▌
▓████▓▌ delivery, suddenly come into sharper relief toward ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the end of the album. "Drinking" cuts loose with a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ direct and rueful chorus about a self-destructive ▓▌
▓████▓▌ paramour; the closing track spins out a suddenly ▓▌
▓████▓▌ crisp "The edges hold together/ The center falls ▓▌
▓████▓▌ flat/ I can't blame it on the weather/ My heart's ▓▌
▓████▓▌ not an acrobat" as things plink and groan and click ▓▌
▓████▓▌ and sigh toward oblivion. One wants to build a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ seedy yet expensive wine lounge somewhere in East ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Village just to be able to play this album around ▓▌
▓████▓▌ last call. ▓▌
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