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░ ▓████▓▌ ░ Artist.......: John Vanderslice ▐▓▀▀
▓ ▐█████▓█ Album........: Five Years ▀ ░
▀█▄▓████▓▓▄█▀ Genre........: Indie ░▓ ▌
▄▀██▓██▓▓▀ Language.....: English ░▓░▐▓
▓▓▄▀█▓▓▓▀ Label........: Barsuk ░▓░ █▓▌
▐█▓▓ ▀▓ Catnr........: n/a ░▓▓▓ ▐█▓▓
▓█▓▌ URL..........: http://www.johnvanderslice.com/ ▓░ ███▓▓[z0o]░
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░▓▓░ ▐█▓▓ ░ ░▓▓░ playtime....: 51:07 min ░▓▓ ▐███████▓▓▌ ░
░░ ███▓▓ ▓▓░▓░ rip.date....: 24-09-2005 ░▓▓░ ▓███▀ ▀▓█▓▓ ░
▄▄▄▄▄▓▄▄▓████▓▓▄▄▄▄░▄▄ str.date....: 17-10-2005 ▓ ▐█▓▀ ░ ░▀█▓▌
▀▓█████████████▓▓▓▀ ripper......: JustFunCrew ░▓░ █▀ ░░▓▓▓ ▀▓
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▀▓█████▓▓▓ ░░▓ encoder.....: LAME version 3.90.3 ░▓▓░▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓░
░ ▐███████▓▓▌░▓▓▓░ size........: 75,4 MB ░▓▓▓▓▓ ▓░▓▓░░ ░
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▓████▓▌ 01. Up Above The Sea 03:51 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 02. Speed Lab 03:32 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 03. Time Travel Is Lonely 03:42 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 04. Me And My 424 03:36 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 05. Trance Manual 04:49 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 06. The Mansion 04:03 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 07. My Old Flame 04:34 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 08. Pale Horse 02:42 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 09. Bill Gates Must Die 03:44 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 10. Promising Actress 04:33 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 11. Nikki O Nikki 03:33 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 12. Keep The Dream Alive 03:28 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 13. Exodus Damage 05:00 ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ [ A B O U T . T H i S . R E L E A S E ] ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Big things are clearly expected of Mr VandersliceÆs ▓▌
▓████▓▌ new record, Pixel Revolt. So to educate those late ▓▌
▓████▓▌ to the party this compilation provides a timely ▓▌
▓████▓▌ catch up. Presumably a best of, in all but name, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the collection uncovers Vanderslice's thick ▓▌
▓████▓▌ blankets of richly textured chamber pop. Probably ▓▌
▓████▓▌ best known for his work as meticulous producer on ▓▌
▓████▓▌ several Mountain Goats records, he has also lured ▓▌
▓████▓▌ members of Spoon, Beulah and Death Cab for Cutie to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ his Tiny Telephone studio in Northern California. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ All have, along with Lou BarlowÆs work with both ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Sebadoh and The Folk Implosion, influenced ▓▌
▓████▓▌ VandersliceÆs own sound. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Drawing from the five albums the prolific ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Vanderslice has released since 2000 the compilation ▓▌
▓████▓▌ offers several perspectives on his songwriting, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ which veers towards bitter narratives of loss, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ paranoia and obsession. Sometimes it bursts forth ▓▌
▓████▓▌ vocally in gleeful bile as on the rumbling, shuffle ▓▌
▓████▓▌ of Nikki O Nikki. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ æYou know that guy ▓▌
▓████▓▌ who stole your girlfriend ▓▌
▓████▓▌ in the summer of Æ92 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ HeÆs going to dieÆ ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ At other moments his lyrics bite with an unexpected ▓▌
▓████▓▌ darkness even when music lures you in. Take the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ gorgeous Trance Manual, with its lullaby glide of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ organs and plucked strings, contrast to the lyrical ▓▌
▓████▓▌ scene of æmujahidin barricadesÆ and æcoalition ▓▌
▓████▓▌ guardsÆ. In this strange world for a love song a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ woman dangerous yet alluring seems dressed ælike ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the flag of a dangerous nation.Æ ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Dark narratives are found also in the two tracks on ▓▌
▓████▓▌ offer taken from his first solo record Mass Suicide ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Occult Figurines. The hero of the crunchy Speed Lab ▓▌
▓████▓▌ survives a fire that tears through his drug ▓▌
▓████▓▌ factory. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ æI know God hates alchemical workÆ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ but what else can I doÆ ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ While the rousing Bill Gates Must Die is the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ confession of a paedophile blames the simplicity of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the Internet for letting his fall. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ æSomeone made this easy, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Someone made this inevitableà ▓▌
▓████▓▌ so for bringing me here ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Bill Gates must dieÆ ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ ItÆs unlikely material for a pop record but there ▓▌
▓████▓▌ is enough anthemic kick in ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the call for billionaireÆs death to see it slip ▓▌
▓████▓▌ into playlists as a sinister novelty. When the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ track was first released, in 2000, Vanderslice ▓▌
▓████▓▌ suckered many journalists by issuing a hoax legal ▓▌
▓████▓▌ warning from Microsoft. The publicity earned him a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ reputation as a prankster, yet he clearly has a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ greater range than attention grabbing lyrical ▓▌
▓████▓▌ material of his first album indicated. He has also ▓▌
▓████▓▌ clearly spent a fair time absorbing his fair share ▓▌
▓████▓▌ of poetry and film as well, several songs adapting ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ideas and lyrics from Robert Lowell, Shelly and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ David Lynch. Yet itÆs not nearly as serious minded ▓▌
▓████▓▌ as it may sound. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ The opening track, Up Above the Sea, brings Eager ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Allen Poe to suburbia in the tale of a man ▓▌
▓████▓▌ tormented by a bluebird on his lawn. While his ▓▌
▓████▓▌ adaptation of Lowell, My Old Flame, finds the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ nostalgic narrator bemoaning that his old house has ▓▌
▓████▓▌ become æIKEA-dÆ. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ However the most immediate and catchy of songs on ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the record clearly shows his true passion - his ▓▌
▓████▓▌ studio. Few musicians can pull off the trick of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ writing a love song about their favoured pieces of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ musical technology. There are exceptions; Magnetic ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Fields found space among their 69 Love Songs to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ sing the praises of the acoustic guitar, while ▓▌
▓████▓▌ George Harrison penned a rocking ode to his ▓▌
▓████▓▌ favoured Wah Wah pedal. Me and My 424 is ▓▌
▓████▓▌ VandersliceÆs bouncy ode to the wonder of the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 4-track. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ æYou can ask the 424 for guidance and for help.Æ ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ ItÆs a simple paean to the power of recording is a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ rare glimpse at directly personal writing from ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Vanderslice. Yet, scratch the surface a little and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the story of a man possessed by sound fetishism, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ surrounded by TDKs and replacement parts for ▓▌
▓████▓▌ discontinued recording equipment veers close in ▓▌
▓████▓▌ theme to his lyrics of solitary figures of more ▓▌
▓████▓▌ obvious criminal passion; underground druggists and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ child pornographers. These characters share ▓▌
▓████▓▌ obsessions that bring to mind dark rooms, singular ▓▌
▓████▓▌ focus and secret passion. Indeed our moral ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ extent of the love between Vanderslice and his ▓▌
▓████▓▌ analog studio. ▓▌
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