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Artist......: Cloud Cult
Album.......: Advice From The Happy Hippopotamus
Label.......: Earthology Records
Genre.......: Indie
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Source......: CD
Rip.date....: 2005-00-00
Str.date....: 2005-00-00
Quality.....: 722kbps/44.1kHz/2 channels
Url.........: http://cloudcult.com
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1. Intro 3:03
2. Living On The Outside Of Your Skin 3:06
3. Happy Hippo 2:40
4. What Comes At The End 3:57
5. You Got Your Bones To Make A Beat 3:01
6. - 0:26
7. Washed Your Car 1:59
8. Transistor Radio 4:08
9. What It Feels Like To Be Alive 0:51
10. Moving To Canada 3:06
11. Start New 1:43
12. Car Crash 2:55
13. Light At The End Of The Tunnel 2:45
14. Million Things 2:36
15. Can't Stop The Jouney Now 3:24
16. Clip-Clop 2:30
17. Training Wheels 4:04
18. We Made Up Your Mind For You 2:23
19. That Man Jumped Out The Window 3:46
20. - 0:31
21. Lucky Today 2:10
22. - 1:04
23. Rockwell 4:20
24. - 0:31
25. (Hidden Track) 3:02
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,: Underrated indie rockers craft an expansive, 25-track LP about :,
: mortality. :
:' ':
,: There's a state of mind in which infancy and mortality meet. :,
: Death, its inexorability, and our fear of it render us as :
:' helpless as when we were toddlers. Many of us fill the ':
,: resulting tremulous mental gap with religion ("our Father..."); :,
: others with work, love, or grown-up childishness like golf; and :
:' you and I, perhaps, with pop music. Cloud Cult bandleader Craig ':
,: Minowa is obsessed with this space-- with infancy, mortality, :,
: and, alas, infant mortality-- and his grandiose fourth album, :
:' Advice from the Happy Hippopotamus, occupies it with messy, ':
,: expansive, computer-ok indie rock. :,
: :
:' I'm often captivated by bands that find quirky beauty in modest ':
,: everyday moments. Cloud Cult do this, too, particularly on last :,
: year's Aurora Borealis, but here they more often aim for lofty :
:' apotheosis: for The Moon and Antarctica, Odelay, or the ':
,: Radiohead masterpiece of your choice. Advice from the Happy :,
: Hippopotamus is utterly over the top, starting with its title :
:' and ridiculous cover art (see also: the name "Cloud Cult"), and ':
,: those hard souls who don't like it will find it easy to mock. :,
: The rest of us will find our crusty, professionally cynical :
:' veneers crumbling. Over an intimidatingly vast 25 tracks ':
,: melding folk, electronics, Arcade Fire emo, and quasi-hippie :,
: hoobajoo, Cloud Cult gird their ambition with solid tunes. :
:' ':
,: It's tempting to call Minowa, an organic farmer from the :,
: Minnesota wilds, a kind of insane genius. His voice is equal :
:' parts Isaac Brock yelp and Conor Oberst quaver, his CDs made of ':
,: recycled materials, his home studio geothermally powered. He has :,
: the perverse confidence to open Advice with a wordless :
:' industrial freakout and bury the album's most accessible song, ':
,: plaintive acoustic ballad "Bobby's Spacesuit", as a hidden :,
: track. Title track "Happy Hippo" buzzes like the Chemical :
:' Brothers, twinkles like a fairytale and boinks like a video ':
,: game before recklessly pilfering from Neil Young's "Hey Hey, My :,
: My"-- also, it's about a hippopotamus. ("She lives under my :
:' matt-uh-russ.") ':
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