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Originally issued in 2004, and re-released in '07, the Blow's POOR AIM: LOVE SONGS presents an excellent assemblage of the performance-art/pop musings of Khaela Maricich and Jona Bechtolt. Pairing Maricich's sing-song vocals and stream-of-consciousness lyrics with Bechtolt's minimalist techno-pop arrangements, the Portland, Oregon-based duo, with its quirky, naïve charm, sometimes brings to mind an electro version of its regional predecessors, Beat Happening. Highlights of POOR AIM include the catchy, whimsical "Hey Boy" and the lovelorn "Come On Petunia," which gleefully lifts entire verses from the Police's "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic."
Like other entries in the States Rights Records/Slender Means Society's Pregnancy Series, the Blow's Poor Aim: Love Songs is a CD EP that's kind of a sampler of the act's sound, or an airing out of material that doesn't have a natural home on their longer releases. Here Blow consist of Khaela Maricich and Jona Bechtolt, laying down a sound that's more funk-oriented than Blow's early recordings, though it still has a minimal electro-pop feel. The seven-song, 17-minute disc sounds a little like the Raincoats had they gone in a more R&B-oriented direction, though not as fully produced as the Raincoats. While the songs are more forceful and thought-out than Maricich's early work, they're still basic, impulsive-sounding statements, and ones that might actually have a chance at popularity among more adventurous dance-pop-oriented listeners if the disc got the exposure. [The 2007 edition includes bonus remixes.] ~ Richie Unterberger
Recording information: 2004.
Personnel: Rachel Jenson (vocals); Jason Anderson (guitar); Zac Pennington (bells); Sting.
Additional personnel: Claire Evans.
Poor Aim: Love Songs Music Blow Poor Aim: Love Songs Songs | 1. | Hey Boy | |
| 2. | Sky Opened Wide Like the Tide, The | |
| 3. | Knowing the Things That I Know | |
| 4. | Let's Play Boys Chase Girls | |
| 5. | Love That I Crave, The | |
| 6. | Hock It | |
| 7. | Come on Petunia | $0.99 | |
| 8. | Begin Remix - (Remix, remix) | |
| 9. | Hock It - (Yacht Remix, Yacht Remix) | |
| 10. | Love That I Crave, The - (Strategy's Strata Club Remix, Strategy's Strata Club Remix) | |
| 11. | Sky Opened Wide Like the Tide, The - (Lucky Dragon's Newage Powermix) | |
| 12. | Hey Hey Hey Boy - (K. Maricich Remix, K Maricich Remix) | |
| 13. | Hey Boy - (DJ Alan Fortarte Remix, DJ Alan Fortarte Remix) | |
| 14. | We Are Over Here - (Lucky Dragons Remix, Lucky Dragons Remix) | |
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