BARR
"Summary" CD
5 Rue Christine
Genre: beatnik poetry indie shit
February 2007 |
like a more talkative and less sing-y travis
morrison, barr aka brendan fowler is an analytical,
verbose guy who talks his way through summary's nine songs. fun
but probably a bit of an awkward guy at parties, brendan
immediately makes this 5rc debut his own with his unique beatnik poet
/ background instrumentation formula. i heard him awhile back on a
split with lil pocketknife on deathbomb arc but here he's
really taken things to a new level. i'm not sure how much i dig it all
but this clever sort of self-analytical stuff is considered charmingly
eccentric these days, and there's gotta be something to that. come to
think of it, the more i listen to this, the more it starts to grow on
me. barr's awkward sort of wit places this more as a comedy
record than a truly musical affair, but the melodies carry you through
some of the blander bits so it's all good in the end. and on a track
like "half of two times two" things even get a little catchy. yet i'm
still partial to "untitled," a confessional little track about
addiction and friendship. lovely.
mp3s (from ):
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Fun Fact:
coxwell balaban
[Vitals: 9 tracks,
31:09,
distributed by
the label,
released 2007] |