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Folk Implosion | One Part Lullaby

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Tekst: Joost Weeps

Publicatiedatum: 22 november 1999

What would you do if one your favorite artist, a critically acclaimed writer of heartbreakingly beautiful popsongs, started going all electronical on you? If he, the guy whose music supported you through highs and lows, started fiddling with samples, loops and beats? It would be every music-fan’s nightmare coming true, wouldn’t it? Too many artists have ‘done this’ to their fans in the past; switching to major-labels or adapting their music (which you loved so much just the way it was) to the modern electronic times. Surely, if you love an album by a band, you hope the next one’s going to be just like that, only better. But sometimes sudden musical changes work out very well indeed. I’m sure if I would tell a Sebadoh-fan 5 years ago Lou Barlow would make a record using samples and funky beats in 1999 this person would either think I’m ready to enter a mental hospital or jump from an apartment building immediately, screaming: No! Not Lou!!! But never fear, this new record by his other band Folk Implosion is as modern as music can get nowadays, combining old techniques like good melodies and guitars with new ones like drumloops and samples. And I can heartily say Lou Barlow and John Davis perfected the Folk Implosion-sound on ‘One Part Lullaby’. Sounding somewhere between a cross of Beck and Sebadoh they’ve made a very consistent record which tops their moodswinging 1997 release ‘Dare to be surprised’. In fact dare I even say this is Lou Barlow’s first consistent record ever, cutting back all the crap usually found on Sebadoh records. Leaving me no choice other than to finish this review by using the horrible (though apt) ending: This, ladies and gentlemen is popmusic for the new millenium.

http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/folk-implosion/one-part-lullaby/829/
Meer Folk Implosion op KindaMuzik: http://www.kindamuzik.net/artiest/folk-implosion