Tuesday, February 01, 2005
Dignity and Shame
Crooked Fingers' new album, due out in a couple of weeks, is currently being streamed at their site. It seems pretty excellent thus far. That first single seemed a bit too Clem Snide for me, but the rest of it resembles the dusty American balladry of 2003's Red Devil Dawn. Who could have imagined, ten years ago, that the guy who wrote "Audiowhore" would mature into a cross between Stephin Merritt and Bruce Springsteen?
UPDATE: Okay, it's not just Dignity and Shame they're streaming. Seems to be a random assortment of songs taken from their entire body of work. Which means I may not be visiting any other websites soon; I can get pretty obsessive about Crooked Fingers. If I listen to one of their records I wind up wanting to listen to all of them, back to back. It's sort of like with Guided by Voices, or Pringles; once I pop I just can't stop. I've actually started loading every single GBV song that I can find on to my work pc, so that I can just load up the folder and put it on shuffle/repeat. That'll save me from having to lug a couple dozen cds to work every time I get on a Pollard kick.
Crooked Fingers' new album, due out in a couple of weeks, is currently being streamed at their site. It seems pretty excellent thus far. That first single seemed a bit too Clem Snide for me, but the rest of it resembles the dusty American balladry of 2003's Red Devil Dawn. Who could have imagined, ten years ago, that the guy who wrote "Audiowhore" would mature into a cross between Stephin Merritt and Bruce Springsteen?
UPDATE: Okay, it's not just Dignity and Shame they're streaming. Seems to be a random assortment of songs taken from their entire body of work. Which means I may not be visiting any other websites soon; I can get pretty obsessive about Crooked Fingers. If I listen to one of their records I wind up wanting to listen to all of them, back to back. It's sort of like with Guided by Voices, or Pringles; once I pop I just can't stop. I've actually started loading every single GBV song that I can find on to my work pc, so that I can just load up the folder and put it on shuffle/repeat. That'll save me from having to lug a couple dozen cds to work every time I get on a Pollard kick.
