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│ album info │
└─-── ───────-─-─---───────────── ─-----─── -─ -─-── -─-─── --─-─── ───────┘
artist: John Vanderslice
album: Mass Suicide Occult Figurines
year: 2003
label: Barsuk
genre: Indie
released: Jul/11/2000
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│ release info │
└──-──────-- -─────--───- ───-─-───-─── -────-───- ────────── ───--─── -───┘
bitrate: --alt-preset standard -Z
tracks: 11
size: 45,4 MB
ripper: nickman
released: Jul/03/2004
┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ trk time title track list │
└──── ────--── ──-─-─-───── ─────-──── ───-─── ─ ─ ──-──-──── ─-── ─- ─ ─-─┘
01 03:43 Confusion Boats
02 03:29 Speed Lab
03 03:43 Bill Gates Must Die
04 03:26 Ambition
05 02:21 Josie Anderson
06 02:26 Interlude
07 04:16 Big Band Stars
08 02:11 Gruesome Details
09 01:57 And What Did You Do Today
10 03:52 Foothills Of My Mind
11 02:27 Mass Suicide Occult Figurines
| 33:51 min
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│ release notes │
└──-─── ─-──-─ ──-─ ─- ─-─ ─-─-──── ───-─ -─ ─-──-─ ──────-─── ───-─ ──- ─-┘
Having caused a minor media sensation when he claimed he was being
sued and generally bullied by Microsoft for the track "Bill Gates Must
Die," only to later reveal that the whole story was only a prank, John
Vanderslice's solo debut is a surprisingly accessible and coherent
album. For someone who apparently derives pleasure from pulling Andy
Kauffman-esque tricks on the media, he is a dead serious songwriting
talent. Coming off a critically acclaimed run with former band mates
MK Ultra, he retains some of their more hard-edged rock elements, as
on the muscularly dreamy "Speed Lab" and the punchy "And What Did You
Do Today." Similarly, the big bruising guitars of "Bill Gates Must
Die" drive lyrics that are surprisingly free of attack on the
multi-billionaire, instead telling the story of a man whose life is
ruined by his obsessive internet use. In the end, however, it's
Vanderslice's imaginative melodic sense that makes Mass Suicide Occult
Figurines a rare type of album. The gliding atmospherics and
beautifully disjointed pop arrangement of "Ambition" balanced with the
simple piano and acoustic guitar-based "Josie Anderson" deliver more
than a few well-produced and well-textured pop moments, though never
becoming overly or awkwardly grandiose. Having once claimed that Brian
Wilson sold him a 16-track recorder, Vanderslice masterfully employs
multi-layered harmonies and touches of tasteful strings in "Gruesome
Details" and "Foothills of My Mind" in ways not dissimilar from that
of the troubled pop genius. While his lyricism may be somewhat
strange, it certainly isn't indecipherable, just as his pop dynamics
are consistently adventurous but never unfocused. While John
Vanderslice's shrewd media hoax may be largely responsible for putting
him in the news, his rare musical gifts are what will keep him there.
ù Matt Fink
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│ urneegrux │
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: this is for all my grux out there. |
│ www.urneegrux.net
│ efnet: #gruX :
│ en out. │
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│ peace. │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘