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Like much of the Red House Painters' work, OCEAN BEACH is marked by an overriding sense of despair, but Mark Kozelek, the Painters' founder and guiding force, has a way of transforming his melancholia into seduction. The record begins on the lightest of notes with "Cabezon," a languid instrumental that would sound appropriate as the opening theme for a kids' TV show. The spare, tender "Summer Dress" follows, with Kozelek's resonant voice, accompanied only by guitar and violin, conveying an almost palpable sense of longing.
An electric guitar finally kicks in on "San Geronimo," a moody, minor key meditation on the love and loss of both a person and a place. Marrying a simple riff with a precise and crafty arrangement, this is perhaps the record's most powerful track. After the stark "Shadows," the pastoral vibe that begins the record returns on "Over My Head," a light acoustic workout that gradually breaks up in an improvised ending. Things get a bit murky toward the end, but Kozelek's voice, in all its velvety fragility, cuts through the fog. "Drop," the final song, is Kozelek at his most confessional, and definitely not a closing theme for a kids' TV show.
Recorded at Coast Recorders, Hyde Street Studios and David Wellhousen's Studio, San Francisco, California.
Recording information: Coast Recorders, San Francisco, CA; David Wellhousen's Studio, San Francisco, CA; Hyde Street Studios, San Francisco, CA; San Francisco Coast Recorders.
Photographer: Melodie McDaniel.
Unknown Contributor Roles: Gorden Mack; Dan Barbee; Anthony Koutsos; Jerry Vessel; Mark Kozelek; Carrie Bradley.
Red House Painters: Mark Kozelek (vocals, guitar, piano); Gorden Mack (guitar); Jerry Vessel (bass); Anthony Koutsos (drums).
Additional personnel: Dan Barbee, Carrie Bradley.
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Rolling Stone (5/18/95, p.90) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...With a lone piano, muted strings or abstract jazz guitar, these San Franciscans achieve a beauty rare, disturbing and resonant. Their landscape is one Tim Hardin, Nick Drake and Tim Buckley sketched--an emotional plane charged with ambivalent, hurt grace..."
Entertainment Weekly (3/31/95, pp.61-62) - "...A beautiful structural mess, the album includes...extended songs that sprawl all over the darkened living room of your brain..." - Rating: A
Q (5/95, p.12) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...Its brief, neat chords and phrases underpin relentlessly romantic, free-wandering melodies and warm lyrics of clear intensity, all with gorgeous guile."
Option (7-8/95, p.132) - "...Red House Painters can pack more degrees of emotion into a low-key ballad than most bands can put into an entire album....the nine songs on OCEAN BEACH become subtle masterpieces..." Ocean Beach Review
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