Sebadoh The Freed Man (Domino)
Notebook shreds in shed//Out July 24
(unpub. pitch 2007)
Hi. Have you heard Domino's Deluxe Edition of Sebadoh's The Freed Man?
Gaffney's reworked it again, with tracks prev not on vinyl or CD, and
some later, better versions, and the best sound yet, which really
brings out all the deft little touches, courtesy a couple of
frustrated/contrarian journeymen/pros, reverting to high-school-stoner
low-fi, but with surly skills now. Yeah, "I'm so sensitive I'm gonna
let it show for second then I'm gonna shove you outta this rubble and
start over," but they represent this familiar tood well enough, with
short tracks--too short sometimes, but even those tend to be bolstered
by for inst folded-in little TV cartoon clashes and wizardly
come-ons, and and pissed off senile-sounding elderly female, and
little brother wants to start a garage woodstock---if it's escape from
the battles with Mascis, it's some splintery shower curtains Barlow
Jr.'s wrapping himself in, old domestic battles and
firecracker-gunpowdery whiffs around the dirtweed and b.o. and peanut
butter jelly. (Yeah, it's really Gaffney doing a lot of the Radio
Shack tailgatoring, but a lot of continuity, momentum, despite
severaltracks I could live without). Back to the tiny touches revealed
by best sound yet: I especially like the almost subliminal folkie bite
rolling and tumbling in the hampster wheel of "Fire Of July": what
could be banal if allowed conventional length is damn lyrical
here,(wooden music for summer fire loitering in the park) and
"Resistence To Flo" gets a swift floordrop to micro-dubspace depth,
just long enough to demonstrate what such resistenance might entail.
Lots of possibilties in this set, and ones that got me the first time
I listened, which is a basic requirement for PTWorthniess, in my book
(since I figure most listeners are as jaded as I am, and unlikely to
get a track a second chance). A ForceField item, and Daniel G. says we
can use anything on here.
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