FILM SCHOOL - PITFALLS REVIEW ON PITCHFORK
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Fri: 01-06-06
Film School: "Pitfalls"
genre: rock
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Maybe it was 1989 when British indie bands really figured out how "mood" worked. Suddenly the shoe-staring mopes were coasting along on splashy drums and repetitive bass grooves, filling the air with lazy guitar swells, whispering along, hesitant to break the spell with anything so active as an actual big chord change. Kind of the perfect trick, if you happen to like things that are pretty and grey and continual. Like, maybe: rain.
Which is what this San Francisco band (now on authentic arty English label!) channels here-- stylish open-air mumble and sigh, with the bass and drums doing the pulsing and gliding and the guitars just painting clouds around them. Yeah, it's all leading to some sloppy-slacker flare-ups (didn't Spiral Stairs used to play with these guys?), but the stick-in-your-head bit is just a drizzly four-note guitar fill. Too bad we can't get more out of Krayg Burton's voice, because this stuff is warm, stylish, and surprisingly good at insinuating itself-- not bad at all, for what's basically cut-rate Kitchens of Distinction, elegant mopes staring through bus windows at rain. [Nitsuh Abebe]
3 STARS
Fri: 01-06-06
Film School: "Pitfalls"
genre: rock
Download
Maybe it was 1989 when British indie bands really figured out how "mood" worked. Suddenly the shoe-staring mopes were coasting along on splashy drums and repetitive bass grooves, filling the air with lazy guitar swells, whispering along, hesitant to break the spell with anything so active as an actual big chord change. Kind of the perfect trick, if you happen to like things that are pretty and grey and continual. Like, maybe: rain.
Which is what this San Francisco band (now on authentic arty English label!) channels here-- stylish open-air mumble and sigh, with the bass and drums doing the pulsing and gliding and the guitars just painting clouds around them. Yeah, it's all leading to some sloppy-slacker flare-ups (didn't Spiral Stairs used to play with these guys?), but the stick-in-your-head bit is just a drizzly four-note guitar fill. Too bad we can't get more out of Krayg Burton's voice, because this stuff is warm, stylish, and surprisingly good at insinuating itself-- not bad at all, for what's basically cut-rate Kitchens of Distinction, elegant mopes staring through bus windows at rain. [Nitsuh Abebe]
3 STARS
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