ARTIST: Tim Fite
TITLE: Fair Ain't Fair
LABEL: Anti-
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 155kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 46m total
RELEASE DATE: 2008-05-06
RIP DATE: 2008-04-29
Track List
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1. Roots of a Tree 1:54
2. Trouble 3:26
3. The Barber 3:24
4. Big Mistake 3:27
5. Inside Man 2:01
6. Rats and Rags 3:24
7. Yesterday's Garden 3:14
8. Thoght I Was a Gun 2:02
9. The Names of All The Animals 4:23
10. Motorcade 1:36
11. More Clothes 3:28
12. Harriet Tubman 1:36
13. My Hands 3:59
14. Heaven is War 1:45
15. Sing Along 3:29
16. Line By Line 3:26
Release Notes:
Fair Ain't Fair is a collection of the most seasoned, reflective and charming
work Tim Fite has ever produced. On it, he explores the idea of apocalypse - the
title itself is a reference to the sad reality of having to live with reaping
what we sow - but also the redemptive essence of an apology. A year in the
making, the sounds on the record are equally as big and ambitious as the topics
it contains. Drums tracked overnight at Fite's old high school drive many of the
songs. On top of the propulsive beats, Fite sprinkles his signature samples, but
with a more restrained hand, and these bits of musical flotsam become more a
part of the whole than a sum of disparate parts. "Big Mistake" is the perhaps
the most straightforwardly catchy song Fite has ever penned, in spite of a touch
of his pervasive self-effacement, and on "Trouble," Fite growls about greed and
avarice, topics manifest in last year's Over The Counter Culture, but told here
with more empathy, more human-ness - perhaps signs of a deeply engaged artist
growing up.