Total Folklore

Descripción

Product Description Total Folklore is an urban album, the jagged, overblown electronics mimicing the grit and chaos of Brooklyn. As a fan of the epic walk, Friel channeled the commuter while writing and recording these songs. Throughout, Friel includes short intermissions, improvisations and field recordings, as if the listener is waiting on the corner for the walk signal. From the screeching glissando of the synths of "Scavengers" to the frenetic pulse of "Thumper," Total Folklore captures the energy and irreverence of punk, while keeping a foot firmly planted on the streets of electronic pop. Review ...they are marches and rockers, with melodies running at speeds from processional to punk while whizzing, crashing, sliding, beeping, chirping sounds ricochet all over... It s a merry onslaught. --New York TimesOpening with the rosy tones of what might be a carillon ringing three counties away, Valedictorian; quickly launches into an overdriven surf-punk hoedown that sounds like Dan Deacon covering Madonna's Open Your Heart; all piledriving drum machine and dueling kazoos, piercing as an ice-cream headache. --Spin... ecstatic, noisy keyboard-based stuff that, as on Valedictorian, is full of technicolor chirp, sugar-rush whoosh, and a bucket of adrenaline. --StereogumOpening with the rosy tones of what might be a carillon ringing three counties away, Valedictorian; quickly launches into an overdriven surf-punk hoedown that sounds like Dan Deacon covering Madonna's Open Your Heart; all piledriving drum machine and dueling kazoos, piercing as an ice-cream headache. --Spin... ecstatic, noisy keyboard-based stuff that, as on Valedictorian, is full of technicolor chirp, sugar-rush whoosh, and a bucket of adrenaline. --Stereogum