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Album Review
Carissa’s Wierd – “You Should Be at Home Here ” – [Brown Records]
Improving on debut, ???Ugly But Honest???, producer Chris Walla
delivers a recording of immediate/emotional power within a
carefully balanced parameter of acoustic string instruments,
resonant lo-fi percussion and songs that are like secrets,
veiled in violin & whispered in sleeping beauteous emulsion.
CARISSA???S WEIRD founders Mat Brooke + Jean Ghetto
front this 5-piece, which also includes accordionist Jeff Hellis,
Sarah Standard on violin & drummer Ben Bridwell; having
emigrated from Tucson AZ to Seattle with dreams of wistful
contemplation (note somber tones + musical shades of grey)
and a not-to-be-outdone riffing that adds a nice low-end punch
to the material. Picks???.???Brooke Daniel???s Tiny Broken Fingers???
???I did not think those screams were for real???.??? Opening with a
woeful violin line, it arrives finally with a medical solution???.the
haunted ???The Color That Your Eyes Changed??? is a sad, blurred
waltz of elegant harmony & displacement???..???Blessed Arms That
Hold You Tight??? is Ghetto???s finest moment???.??????it???s all long good-
byes???..??? sung with such an ephemeral nondeliberation of beauty
that it becomes clear why the band scribbled out their lyrics in the
accompanying booklet???.no point in overstating the obvious.
MITCH July 2002
you heard it 48 times on kfjc! most recently:
- 405 days ago, Dusty Rhodes played The Part About The Vine That's Growing Through The Window
- 985 days ago, Ms. Tiza played You Should Be at Home Here
- 1503 days ago, Dusty Rhodes played The Part About The Vine That's Growing Through The Window
- 1504 days ago, Lurker played All Apologies and Smiles, Yours Truly, Ugly Valentine
- 2043 days ago, Herb Rockwell played The Color That Your Eyes Changed With The Color of Your Hair
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