CRUELTY Presents:
Artist...: VA
Album....: Meet the Philly Elite
Label....: (K-RAA-K)│
Size.....: 14,8 MB
Source...: Vinyl
Playtime.: 11:19 min
Genre....: Indie
Release..: Oct-19-2009
Encoder..: LAME V3.97 -V2 --Vbr-New
Quality..: VBRkbps 44,1Hz Joint-Stereo
TrackList:
01 03:08 Kurt Vile - I Wanted Everything
02 03:24 Jack Rose - Mr. Rose Visits Washington D.C.
03 03:05 Meg Baird - Wave Crashed on Rocks
04 01:42 U.S. Girls - A Day at the Races
Release Notes:
Pretty killer 4 way match up on this super limited 7": Kurt Vile, Jack Rose, Meg Baird and
US Girls. But what do all 4 of these acts have in common? They all call Philadelphia home.
Released to commemorate a show the folks at Kraak set up earlier this year in Philly, each
of these 4 bands offers up a brief little blast of the glorious sounds they make. Blast
might be too strong a word to describe the tracks here, as evidenced by garage noise popper
Kurt Vile who starts things off on a surprisingly sweet and folky note with his "I Wanted
Everything", all minor key guitar and sweetly crooned vox, plenty of reverb, a dark woozy
almost traditional sounding ballad, which leads perfectly into Rose's "Mr. Rose Visits
Washington D.C.", yet another gorgeous tangle of buzzing steel string modern Appalachia,
replete with the usual bleary blur of frenetic melody and warm languid raga like buzz. On
the flipside, Meg Baird (of Espers) offers up a sweetly melancholy folky drift, a cover
of a track by obscure sixties Christian folkies Felt, delicate crystalline guitar, her
voice ethereal and angelic, the whole thing very dreamy and timeless, but definitely
looking back to the classic era of seventies British female folk. And finally US Girls
finish things off with the only real 'blast' here, a glorious noisy lo-fi looped chunk
of warm swirling garage pop, repetitive and buzzy and totally mesmerizing but WAY too
short. Left us dying for more for sure... Comes in a simple printed black and white
cover, adorned with a crazy high school binder drawing of wolves and buildings and
melty hands and floating heads and fat people and ghosts and teeth and all kinds
of super detailed weirdness. And this is most likely crazy limited, these things
most always are. and it's already sold out at the label