NEBLUNG PRICE Discography of CDs

NEBLUNG PRICE albums THE BROOKLYN RAIL Review by Dann Baker Jim Price of Neblung Price has been a dj at WFMU 91. 1 FM for many years...and a damned good one. He began there in 1976 and was an early champion of R. Stevie Moore, with whom he has collaborated with since 1978. Price played an electic, free form stew of fiercely original stuff, from cheesy psychedelia to noisecore; in both cases, this electicism had a positive impact on his own music. Strictly a studio band, Neblung Price (Jim and his partner, Rick Neblung) build their recordings painstakingly track by track. The result is an inspired chameleonism. It's not so much genre-hopping (like Shonen Knife) or mimicry (like Todd Rundgren or Ween); it's more like someone poured a whole lotta good stuff together and then filtered it through their own offbeat, wry sensibility. It helps that the lyrics aren't jokey or imitative; they're Imagist concrete: "I see a wall of pictures/penny eyed and free/a hundred thousand shovels/can't bring her back to me."And unlike so many hipster bands, Neblung Price ain't afraid to belt or lean into a well-crafted harmony, bless 'em. One of Darker's songs is pure motorik; another sounds like Bobbie Gentry as done by the Zombies; another could be Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis duetting in someone's rec room. On the whole, though, Darker is less aggressively eclectic than their '98 debut, The Savage Songs of Neblung Price; there's folky sensibility here that's partial to pretty melodies played on acoustic guitars...or maybe it's a smokey sensibility, by way of Lee Hazelwood and Jimmy Webb. At any rate, it rawks, so get off yer duffs & buy dis platter. CHRONOGRAM MAGAZINE Review of Neblung Price "Darker" by Todd Paw The ...

NEBLUNG PRICE music CDs THE BROOKLYN RAIL Review by Dann Baker This is the multi-instrumentalist duo's third album, titled, simply, Third. As with their previous releases, Third has that two-guys-in-a-home-studio-who-have-listened-to-too-much-music sound, but only in the best way. (Jim Price was a longtime WFMU DJ and played drums for legendary home-taping giant R. ...