Editorial Reviews
Don't Shave The Feeling
- Glenn Astarita, Allaboutjazz.com (chosen as an Editor's Pick)
Sonic mayhem....Bold, brash, loud and slightly twisted....Highly recommended."
Dave Wayne, jazzweekly.com
"Definitely the party album of the year. Highly recommended."
Album Description
The Spout plays hard rock and pop covers that are beyond twisted. Frankie Vali meets Albert Ayler on the way to Led Zeppelin's house. This is more than a mere cover album, more than improvisors playing "rock", more than stale "groove" bullshit. This is the real deal, so sit up straight and pay attention.
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Don't Shave The Feeling
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ASIN: B00005QAWK Release Date: 2001-07-01 |
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Album Description
The Spout plays hard rock and pop covers that are beyond twisted. Frankie Vali meets Albert Ayler on the way to Led Zeppelin's house. This is more than a mere cover album, more than improvisors playing "rock", more than stale "groove" bullshit. This is the real deal, so sit up straight and pay attention.Customer Reviews:
They stand on the shoulders of giants.......2006-03-09
Truly demented.......2002-04-18
Their wholesale deconstructionist method comes into full flower on that old chestnut, Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You. Starting out slightly north of bizarre, with smiley-faced organ, an unidentifable kazoo-like instrument (probably a guitar), and totally static electronic drums, things start to get way weird not three minutes into it as the band launches into drunken marching music. From there they proceed to total sonic meltdown, yet somehow still tethered to the lineaments of the song. It ends with a surreal dancing coda brilliantly executed on probably the world's cheesiest organ by the inimitable Jamie Saft. Surely one of the most abnormal readings of a pop song ever put onto disc.
Even when they hold their tendency toward musical anarchy somewhat in check, as on Walk On By, things are still out of whack. In fact, this approach may be even scarier than the sonic freak-out: It's more nuanced, more accessible, but there's still a lot of subtle strangeness just below the surface. I guess my favorite cut is A-Team. With its Mexican Radio-like unintelligible staticky spoken-word text, it's so faux-jubilant, so mock-anthemic, it's perfect. Another favorite moment is a quasi-quote of the theme from Chariots of Fire near the end of Politician, this amid near absolute sonic decay.
Everyone's to be commended, but this is the most assured I've ever heard Briggan Krauss. He has this amazing tone on his alto that sears into you brain, but he can also play simply beautifully, as on Don't Make Me Over, given an almost normal reading by the lads. Jaime Saft constantly scores with his sick organ treatments, and Curtis Hasselbring's guitar emits sounds seldom if ever heard before.
The weird thing is that no matter how mannered, how outre, how bizzare things get, this music is never less than compelling, and often starkly beautiful. Probably not for everyone, but if you ever dug Captain Beefheart, or maybe Anthony Braxton, or Sam Rivers, or Frank Zappa, you might want to try this. Not for the faint of heart.
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Special Tribute to Glenn Miller
Somewhere [CD-single] [Import]
Still in Love Song [CD-single] [Import]