ARTIST: Blame Game
TITLE: Honey and Salt
LABEL: Stickfigure Records
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 208kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 50m total
RELEASE DATE: 2005-06-25
RIP DATE: 2005-11-22
Track List
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1. Lemon Drops 4:31
2. Slidin' Highway 5:10
3. On Waiting 4:48
4. Truly Wash Yourself 6:15
5. Rope's Whim 5:33
6. Children are Funny Characters 4:48
7. Honey and Salt 6:22
8. Basilar Membrane 5:23
9. Subtle Parts 7:40
Release Notes:
http://www.blamegameband.com/
http://www.stickfigurerecords.com/
Beautiful and nauseating, jazzy and fierce, tumultuous and contained, precise
and loose...one of these adjectives could be applied at any given point during
one of Blame Game's sets. Atlanta's Blame Game is a band of extremes that
somehow always makes sense. For those in the audience, the meticulous attention
to detail displayed by the band's compositions (while retaining a strong
attachment to playing loose when needed) is apparent from the get go. Anchored
by the rhythm section of Alex Lambert on drums/sax (also a member of free jazz
trio Lie and Swell) and Chris Ware on bass, the band defies nausea-inducing easy
labels by giving the listener a quick ride through their assorted influences. In
just one song, faint glimpses of Captain Beefheart, Ornette Coleman, and Don
Caballero will appear but that glimpse is quickly washed away as you realize
that you are seeing something more substantial than a band with great
influences. The mark of a great band is one that takes its influences and
refuses regurgitation. Blame Game molds those influences to create something
that is new and very refreshing. The churning and weaving of guitarists George
Asimakos (ex-Camaro Crotch) and Andrew Wiggins (ex-Left to Rust) leaves very
little to be desired. Odd time changes and dynamic shifts are just a few of the
tricks that Blame Game has in its hat to leave the audience cheering for more at
just about every stop they make.