Feeling Analog (in a digital world)

Editorial Reviews
EarBuzz.com, August, 2005
"Ellie sings, "Can you free your mind?" EarBuzz's answer - yes, thanks in part to your liberating music.' Great CD."

SEE Magazine, November 25, 2004
"Dual started out in Korea, where they had Hasselhoff-in-Germany-level success & tracks on a couple of Asian movie soundtracks..."

Album Description
"Spatial instrumentation - deep frequency worlds of pulsing keys and chemical industrial beats that weave and soothe - the basis for Dual's CD, "Feeling Analog". The paint on top of the foundation of groove is the melodic and intimate writing along with sumptuous vocals of lead singer, Ellie Chang and partner Cris Fehr. The music is a blend: Trance-like midnite bass and percussion mixed with a secret vocal timbre. Hypnotic. The CD opens with the dance-track, "Endless" - Chang's vocals whisper while the floor is full of closed-eyed moving bodies - wonderful. "Butterfly" employs the digital vocal mover - perpetual modest busy signal pumps with the beat as the words describe the catharsis of love, 'I feel alive.' Track 3, "What You Think You Need", is our favorite track - its industrial reverbed backbeat is a stark testosterone contrast to Ellie's vulnerable feminine yet strong vocal delivery. Artistic waves. The title track gives us a glimpse of some of the influences at work - the tune is a cross between Trent Reznor and INXS - updated within the world of electronica. The long track here, "Cafe Eden," takes us into the world of jazz trance groove - with vocal textures that remind us of late 60's female vocal whispering - Ellie asks the question, "Can you free your mind?" EarBuzz's answer is 'Yes, thanks in part to your liberating music.' Great CD."

Feeling Analog (in a digital world)

Tracks:

Moon Fruit
Last Call
New Laboratory Assistant
Organ donor
Shiva The Destroyer
Community theater
Watch You
Talk Show
Heart, Lungs, etc.
Manual of Style
Zuckermans Favorite Joke
That Light-Fingered Feeling

Album Description

Inspired by the art-punk bands of the late `70s/early `80s as well as more modern electronic experimentation, Seattle's Sushirobo creates retro futuristic, jet-fueled music for analog robots.

The band's sophomore full-length, The Light-Fingered Feeling of Sushirobo, takes listeners on a headphone joy ride shimmering with pixilated, beeping, sweeping and soaring stabs of sound the likes of which you've never heard come from a guitar (although that's exactly where they're coming from).

Working within the format of a traditional four-piece rock outfit, these Seattleites concoct otherworldly ditties glazed with the candy sheen of psychedelic post-punk pioneers Pere Ubu and Wire coupled with the juicy hooks of early-era Brainiac and modern-day heroes The Dismemberment Plan and Enon.

Customer Reviews:

Buy this album.......2003-11-29

If you are an indie rock fan, like myself, you will love Sushirobo's latest CD. This one does not have those annoying guitar solos and the boredom of other popular indie rock albums. This one is not self-absorbed and full of "feelings." Also it does not have all those experimental sounds that come from a 14-year-olds laptop. In addition, this is a great album for dancing. The sounds are very clear and focus on minimalism, which is nice after a long day.

Such a strange and wonderful experience..........2003-10-30

There really isn't much to be said about this album, only that it's sort of like Seattle's solution to Radiohead. It's a bit more poppy, but not in a bad way. "Light Fingered Feeling..." is excellent indie-noise-rock, that's completely new and different. The vocals aren't flawless, but work well with the intriguing lyrical content. The music itself is expansive and oddly fascinating. My only complaint is that it's not nearly long enough, clocking in a bit over 30 minutes. It's a pretty big let-down when you realize the CD just ended, but no worries. It's the type of thing you can repeat.