Artist: Tickley Feather
Title: Hors D'Oeuvres
Label: Carpark Records
Genre: Indie
Bitrate: 154kbit av.
Time: 00:29:41
Size: 35.25 mb
Rip Date: 2009-10-13
Str Date: 2009-10-20
01. Muscles 2:43
02. Sure Relaxing 1:53
03. Don't Call, Marylin 1:58
04. Buzzy 2:14
05. Trash Boys 4:56
06. Not A Drum 2:59
07. Roses Of Romance 1:44
08. Fly Like An Eagle 3:16
09. Club Rhythm 96 And Cell Phone 3:28
10. Tickley Plays Guitar 4:30
Release Notes:
Having recently relocated to her home state of Virginia from
Philadelphia, Annie Sachs (a.k.a. Tickley Feather) has recorded her
newest album Hors DÆoeuvres. Recorded in an old dilapidated farmhouse
in the Shenandoah woods, Hors DÆoeuvres brilliantly captures AnnieÆs
Southern Gothic meets Existential Hillbilly vibe. Focused around a
sense of joy, the new material is a marked change from her previous
work and its sense of moodiness and oppression. Imbued with a
purposeful anthemic quality, these songs reach out to the listener
embracing a hauntingly beautiful tension, enhanced by a patina of 4
track scuzz.
The creative force behind Tickley Feather, Annie Sachs, entered into
music as inauspiciously as most; making friends with other neophytes
who were looking for a creative way to spend their time. What
differentiated Annie from her initial partners was an idiosyncratic and
preternaturally bizarre voice and vocal style. AnnieÆs abilities
quickly made her a sought after member of many bands though she was
essentially un-malleable to most of the conventional songwriting
presented to her. Annie chose to forge her own path and selected the
Tickley Feather nom de guerre in 2004 to attempt to define her own
sound and use it to express her truly singular and unique perspective.
Her initial recordings on a ôgently usedö four track were able to
transcend the lo-fi ghetto by eschewing preciousness in favor of
bizarreness.
Around this time Annie was invited to participate in a film by director
Danny Perez was preparing on behalf of Animal Collective. The group
became interested in her music and invited her to release an album on
their Paw Tracks imprint. The self titled album was released by Paw
Tracks in the spring of 2008. It was preceded by a critically heralded
split 7 inch with Serpents of Wisdom and another split 7 inch with
Bermuda Triangles from Richmond, Virginia released on the CNP label.
After many years in Philadelphia, Annie decided she should consolidate
her energies in her former home of Virginia. In a search for isolation
Annie retreated to rural Virginia earlier this year and moved into a
dilapidated farmhouse which had been annexed by a school for the deaf
and the blind. She wished to remake the mold that she had cast with
her previous work and was able to create what was to become her new
album Hors dÆoeuvres in an environment sympathetic to her aesthetic.
Liberated by solitude and firmly entrenched with her young boy Aiden,
Annie is now able to gain a new perspective and find a new direction.
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