Home Of The Lame - Sing What You Know
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Label : Grand Hotel van Cleef
Style : Indie
Grabber: EAC
Encoder: LAME
Quality: VBR/44,1kHz
Reldate: 06.Mar.2008
Street : 01.Feb.2008
Songs : 11
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Release Notes:
Sing What You Know is the new album from Home Of The Lame.
Moving on from the singer/songwriter reflections of 2005's
Here Of All Places, Felix Gebhard, singer and...um,
songwriter for Home Of The Lame has instead formed a band.
Recruiting three of Hamburg's best, Christian Hake on drums,
Ingo Schr÷der on guitar and Alex B÷ll on bass, the band
played over 100 shows together last year, many of them on
multiple tours with friends Element Of Crime, Maritime and
Walking Concert. This shared experience fueled and inspired
this year's great leap forward Sing What You Know.
With the dry sense of humor one might expect from Morrissey,
the new album opens with "Old Songs". Gebhard sings "You
can't stand the old songs anymore, they used to mean so much
before". To sing what you know means to tell the truth and
sometimes the truth hurts. Paying homage to sixties classics
without aping them, "Old Songs" is a call to arms for anyone
who still loves a good pop song or wants to write one.
With the ironically radio friendly track "The Radio" Gebhard
points to his love of pop music with a back hand to the
industry charged with delivering it to the people. While he
sings "I see music as a form of art, you know" it's not from
the point of view of the artist but from that of the
listener. Like the great 19th century philosopher Arthur
Schopenhauer once said "Only he who takes what he writes
directly out of his own head is worth reading", Sing What
You Know spells out and illustrates the point.
While questioning the motivations behind music, love and art
is all fine and good, the album finds time to explore the
forest through the trees, real life moments that are as they
appear. "Maria" is an ode to love as natural and fleeting as
migratory birds, summer feelings that follow you for life.
With Bacharach inspired horns and the Hansa dance hall
rhythm of Hake and B÷ll, "Maria" is a like a rowboat ride
with your sweetheart on a perfect day.
Home Of The Lame have extensive touring plans for Sing What
You Know. This band, or "quartet" as Felix describes it, was
born on the road and like the E Street Band, are born to
run. For fans of Here Of All Places don't expect the lone
wolf and his acoustic guitar, or be overrun by an electric
powered pride, 2008 is a year to rock!
myspace.com/homeofthelame
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Track List:
01. Old Songs 04:02
02. The Radio 04:23
03. For The Most Part 03:58
04. After Traveling 03:18
05. Maria 05:39
06. Engine 03:40
07. Food For Song 03:58
08. What You Were About 03:29
09. Big Machines 03:30
10. A Narrow Path 05:49
11. Said And Sung 03:39
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Total
45:25 min