ARTiST: Bombadil
ALBUM: Tarpits And Canyonlands
BiTRATE: 197kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: Ramseur Records
GENRE: Indie
SiZE: 68.06 megs
PLAYTiME: 0h 45min 25sec total
RiP DATE: 2009-07-28
STORE DATE: 2009-07-09
Track List:
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01. I Am 1:32
02. Sad Birthday 3:09
03. Honeymoon 4:50
04. Reasons 2:24
05. Cold Runway 3:52
06. Oto The Bear 3:09
07. Prologue 0:50
08. So Many Ways To Die 4:44
09. Marriage 2:34
10. Laurita 2:42
11. Kuala Lumpur 3:30
12. Pyramid 2:12
13. 25 Daniels 3:20
14. Matthew 3:48
15. Kate And Kelsey 2:49
Release Notes:
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Unless itÆs being transmitted from space, isnÆt all music technically world
music? That misleading term loses even more meaning when so many young acts
(hey, Vampire Weekend!) plunder African or Balkan influences like theyÆre just
another rock-historical genre to revive. What sets North CarolinaÆs Bombadil
apart from its peers, besides a precocious breadth of influences, is how deeply
the quartet has integrated those traditions into their rollicking
Western
pop music. To its credit the band, which formed when Bryan Rahija and Daniel
Michalak spent a semester in Colombia, never sounds academic or overly
conceptual, but musically voracious and playful. Tarpits and Canyonlands, their
second full-length, often sounds like a college glee club covering The Village
Green Preservation Society: The melodies are chipper, the hooks prominent, the
performances energetic, the arrangements full to bursting with ideas. ôI Amö
opens with a simple vocal that builds into a complex roundelay en route to a
boisterous orchestral finale. ôReasonsö is a sad pop song, ôSad Birthdayö a
happy live show staple. At times Tarpits sounds too twee, but these heady songs
are all heart.