Artist..........: Lackthereof
Album...........: A Retrospective 1998-2008, Or, I Was A Christian Emo Twentysomething
Genre...........: Indie
Label...........: Film Guerrero
Catnr...........: FG29
Source..........: CDDA
Rip.Date........: 27-05-2010
Street.Date.....: 13-10-2009
Quality.........: VBR/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo
Url.............: http://www.myspace.com/lllackthereof
Size............: 87.98MB
Song.Title :
01. Forced The Issue 1:44
02. Tongues O' Fire 2:46
03. Miko 2:38
04. Safely In Jail 3:17
05. Mercykilling 4:39
06. Abstinent Dry Sex 4:03
07. Every Kind Word 1:42
08. Modern Christianity 5:27
09. The New Aspirin 4:23
10. Assistance Is Requested 4:33
11. Pimping Is Never An Easy Task! 2:35
12. Both Of Us 5:21
13. By The Heat of the Laundromat Vent 5:24
14. Know, Understand 1:19
15. A L'ure 4:29
16. Half Off Drugz 1:30
17. Let U Down As Good As I Did 3:46
18. Formula 3:12
19. Monolithic 4:45
20. The Columbia 3:37
Runtime: 71:10 min
Release.Info :
Danny Seim is best known for playing drums and singing in Menomena, but he's had
a sort of parallel career as Lackthereof, putting out nine albums and two EPs
since 1998. After self-releasing most of them in limited runs, he made the jump
to Barsuk in 2008 with Your Anchor, his best Lackthereof album yet. That makes
now an opportune time for him to look back on his long-running project and give
people who haven't followed it (i.e., almost everyone) a chance to sample the
best moments. It wisely doesn't draw at all from Your Anchor, focusing on
material from the lesser-heard records. Seim has doodled illustrations and
scribbled out complete lyrics for every track, and he's given it a title that
reflects the central inner conflict of his life during the time he made most of
this music.
Seim plays and sings everything on all these records, and while you'd expect him
to be a good drummer, he's good at writing bass and guitar parts that suit his
talents, and his vocals, while mildly raspy, suit the songs. He's willing to
push himself, too: His wordless self-harmony on 2003's "Safely in Jail" sounds
good over popping programmed drums. It's stylistically similar to solo Thom
Yorke, and when he brings the live drums and a small army of electronic noises
in, it brings the song vividly to life. The conflict between Seim's religious
upbringing and his own worldview is the subject of a few songs, but none
highlight it more clearly than "Abstinent Dry Sex", which rides a fantastic
bassline to the lines, "You're bulimic/ I'm in love with porn/ I'd rather love
you/ But that would be wrong."
The compilation is sequenced out of chronological order, but a quick check
through the booklet makes it clear how much Seim's craft has developed over the
years. The best of the four instrumentals is the most recent, 2008's "Both of
Us", which is beautifully contemplative and essentially free of gimmicks in the
production. The best track on the whole compilation, the closing "The Columbia",
also dates from last year and benefits from being streamlined and spooky. Most
Lackthereof albums before Your Anchor were uneven, so it's nice to have the bulk
of the strongest tracks all in one place, though the occasional indulgence does
slip through. "Pimping Is Never An Easy Task!" from 2002 is built up with
shuddering percussion to the point of being cluttered, while the Wendy Carlos
synthesizer solo that opens "Half Off Drugz" is amusing once.
Other places where Seim appears to be entertaining himself work better-- the
fuzzed-out Zeppelin crunch of "Let U Down as Good as I Did" or the odd
beatboxing on "Miko", for instance. Lackthereof is an interesting and prolific
project, and this compilation should make it easier to approach for people
working their way back toward it from Menomena. Seim's well of inspiration runs
deep, and people who've enjoyed his more high-profile work would be well served
to check out the project that got him started.
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