| | I Am Kloot Gods And Monsters CD - Import I Am Kloot Discography of CDs
With 2005's GODS AND MONSTERS, I Am Kloot follows up its well received self-titled album. While the results aren't quite as adventurous as the former offering, the Manchester, England-based trio is clearly more focused here, streamlining its sound with more straightforward arrangements. Like fellow hometown heroes Doves, I Am Kloot specializes in driving, moody rock, using the typically spare trio format in service of surprisingly dense, sharply crafted tunes that seem to be the work of a larger ensemble. Singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Johnny Bramwell, with his Robyn Hitchcock-like vocals and dynamic guitar playing, is the group's primary creative force, but, on much of GODS AND MONSTERS, drummer Andy Hargreaves proves to be the band's MVP, with potent and intuitive percussion that energizes numerous songs, including the fierce opener, "No Direction Home," and the keys-heavy title track.
Audio Mixer: Joe Robinson .
Recording information: Moolah Rouge, Stockport, England.
Personnel: Robert Marsh (trumpet).
Additional personnel: Norman McLeod (pedal steel guitar); Robert Marsh (trumpet).
Spin (p.103) - "[S]pare, cracker-crisp Britrock not unlike Spoon's musings." - Grade: B+
Entertainment Weekly (No. 836, p.61) - "...[W]ith angular arrangements and a darkly romantic wit that's all his own." - Grade: B+ I Am Kloot Gods And Monsters Songs Gods And Monsters Review
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Okerere's urgent yelp most often recalls a fired-up incarnation of the Cure's Robert Smith, but the sounds the group creates echo everything from Gang of Four's staccato militarism ("Banquet") to the reverberating guitars of the Chameleons ("Price of Gas"). At times, Bloc Party also recalls the ecstatic soundwashes of early-1990s cult pioneers like Ride ("Plans") and Slowdive ("Compliments"). Lyrically, Okerere tilts toward ...
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This 25-song CD might properly have been called "The Best of the Rest" of Cher, comprised as it is of tracks from her first ten years in music that are usually left off of the "best-of" Cher compilations that are out there. The first 15 songs consist of material from her years on Liberty Records, including oddities such as her mid-'60s cover of Ray Davies' "I Go to Sleep," the ornate "Song Called Children," with its "Eleanor Rigby"-like arrangement, her ultra-cool, Phil Spector-ish version of Bob Dylan's "I Want You," and "Reason to Believe." Some of the material here, such as her recordings of Graham Gouldman's "Behind the Door" and Sonny Bono's "Magic in the Air" (which, one could suspect, was the model for Neil Young's "Broken Arrow"), has been compiled elsewhere, most notably on Bang Bang: The Early Years, although at the time this disc was devised that was not the case -- additionally, assembling all of these odder early Cher sides together makes for a much more interesting and diverting way of hearing them, and a keen appreciation of the sheer range of ...
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