ARTIST: The Old Soul
TITLE: The Old Soul
LABEL: Friendly Fire Recordings
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 207kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 45m total
RELEASE DATE: 2007-04-17
RIP DATE: 2007-04-18
Track List
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1. P Is For Protein 4:13
2. River Of Daughters 4:04
3. Boobie Trap 3:10
4. Robert Wyatt 3:18
5. Fuck It 1:46
6. Nectar Of The Nitwit 3:52
7. Vegetables 3:03
8. All My Godz 2:14
9. Better B Good 1:16
10. Take Care & Brush Your Hair 5:59
11. Wives & Losers 2:12
12. Shotgun Wedding 3:58
13. & A Mexican Divorce 2:44
14. I'd Love You In The Haystack 3:47
Release Notes:
NOTE: Nectar of the Nitwit and I'd Love You in the Haystack are not on the
previous release of this, however they are on another release, but they're
different. There's no countoff at the beginning of Haystack and both songs sound
cleaner and crisper and mixed slightly differently (for example the xylophone on
Nectar is more prominent than it was in the previous version).
If pop music is like chemistry, the Old Soul's maestro Luca Maoloni is the
archetypal mad scientist, emerging from his laboratory every few years with a
hulking creation at his back. A sprawling, multi-layered hodgepodge. A droplet
of this in a vial of that. A vast collection of pop, calypso, folk, rock,
country & western and gypsy exotica, like some sort of genre-ignoring modern
Frankenstein.
Since 2003, the good doctorÆs songs have been grounded in a simple principle:
pop music is best when it doesnÆt make sense, when it doesnÆt entirely play by
its own rules. So MaoloniÆs left turns all veer right, his up dives down, and
the rules of composition take a back seat to impulse. Deep-fried Grandaddy rock,
horn-led Elephant 6 pop and zydeco stomps all find a home in the warmth of the
Old SoulÆs three-minute ditties. This is rock music thatÆll afford accordions
and harpsichords the same voice it allows guitars. Maoloni, a pianist since the
age of 4, is an equal opportunity kind of guy: one whose songs exoticize the
past forty years of popular music. Whose quirks delight in themselves. Who has
the gall to cover Brian WilsonÆs ôVege-tables,ö and make it even stranger (maybe
even better) than the original.
Most of this magic takes place in the laboratory, where Maoloni pens and records
nearly all of the Old SoulÆs material by himself. But the band has recently
ballooned to include a host of talented touring musicians. Matt Mclaren, Jo-Ann
Goldsmith (formerly of Broken Social Scene), Nick Taylor, Jay Anderson, Andrew
Innanen, Juri Biondic and several others ensure that the Old Soul is the same
joyfully wild ride on stage that it is on record. Which isnÆt a problem û
whether in economic 5-piece format, or in large-scale 10-person arkestra mode,
The Old Soul delvers MalonoiÆs mapless music with the same kind of zeal, madness
and intensity he uses to create it.