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ARTIST: Hi Red Center TITLE: Assemble LABEL: Joyful Noise Recordings GENRE: Indie BITRATE: 197kbps avg PLAYTIME: 0h 34m total RELEASE DATE: 2009-02-10 RIP DATE: 2010-06-18 Track List ---------- 1. Toothless Beau 4:31 2. Littlest Giant 4:27 3. Symmetry Chameleon 4:30 4. Nowheresville 3:32 5. Lullaby 3:22 6. Chicken Gorlet 2:00 7. Tress In A Row 3:14 8. Los Olvidados 4:39 9. Pipe Dream 4:44 Release Notes: http://www.myspace.com/hiredcenter ItÆs not supposed to be this way. Indie pop should be easy to follow. Frequent time signature changes should equate to joylessness. And by god, if you insist on using hocket and polyphony in your vocal lines, please ensure that you are a respected early music ensemble (or a prog rock band pretending to be one, a la Gentle Giant). Shame on you, Hi Red Center, for brazenly defying each of the above musical standards. All of the rules broken and lines blurred by New YorkÆs Hi Red Center on their debut album, Architectural Failures (2006), remain broken and blurred on the follow-up, Assemble. This isnÆt an album about flouting conventions, though. If anything, Hi Red CenterÆs lovingly detailed, often plain, beautiful songs approach an awkward kind of, well, approachability. They just get there in the strangest ways. Melodies refract, arrangements self-destruct and congeal. AssembleÆs strangest concoctions successfully goad the proverbial square peg and round hole to commingle -- for example, the combination of skronky Beefheart un-blues with hazy melodicism in ôNowheresville,ö or the wisps of Tejano and Brazilian rhythms that interrupt the acid-pop reverie of ôLos Olvidados.ö A few listens through Assemble and its peculiarity recedes. The shards of glockenspiel, clarinet and bassoon that teeter-totter through ôSymmetry Chameleonö and ôPipe Dreamö register with the same lushness that marks Sufjan StevensÆs most ebullient tracks -- albeit smashed and glued-together. There is a whole lot of room for pretense in a record of such calculated construction, and perhaps the most wondrous thing about Assemble is that Hi Red Center sidestep it completely. Parts ping-pong and interlock gleefully, voices intone with a sense of discovery, even reverence -- thereÆs a little bit of the sacred inside the breathtaking ôLullaby.ö Music this complicated isnÆt usually so unassuming, so human. This NFO File was rendered by NFOmation.net
ARTIST: Hi Red Center TITLE: Assemble LABEL: Joyful Noise Recordings GENRE: Indie BITRATE: 197kbps avg PLAYTIME: 0h 34m total RELEASE DATE: 2009-02-10 RIP DATE: 2010-06-18 Track List ---------- 1. Toothless Beau 4:31 2. Littlest Giant 4:27 3. Symmetry Chameleon 4:30 4. Nowheresville 3:32 5. Lullaby 3:22 6. Chicken Gorlet 2:00 7. Tress In A Row 3:14 8. Los Olvidados 4:39 9. Pipe Dream 4:44 Release Notes: http://www.myspace.com/hiredcenter Its not supposed to be this way. Indie pop should be easy to follow. Frequent time signature changes should equate to joylessness. And by god, if you insist on using hocket and polyphony in your vocal lines, please ensure that you are a respected early music ensemble (or a prog rock band pretending to be one, a la Gentle Giant). Shame on you, Hi Red Center, for brazenly defying each of the above musical standards. All of the rules broken and lines blurred by New Yorks Hi Red Center on their debut album, Architectural Failures (2006), remain broken and blurred on the follow-up, Assemble. This isnt an album about flouting conventions, though. If anything, Hi Red Centers lovingly detailed, often plain, beautiful songs approach an awkward kind of, well, approachability. They just get there in the strangest ways. Melodies refract, arrangements self-destruct and congeal. Assembles strangest concoctions successfully goad the proverbial square peg and round hole to commingle -- for example, the combination of skronky Beefheart un-blues with hazy melodicism in Nowheresville, or the wisps of Tejano and Brazilian rhythms that interrupt the acid-pop reverie of Los Olvidados. A few listens through Assemble and its peculiarity recedes. The shards of glockenspiel, clarinet and bassoon that teeter-totter through Symmetry Chameleon and Pipe Dream register with the same lushness that marks Sufjan Stevenss most ebullient tracks -- albeit smashed and glued-together. There is a whole lot of room for pretense in a record of such calculated construction, and perhaps the most wondrous thing about Assemble is that Hi Red Center sidestep it completely. Parts ping-pong and interlock gleefully, voices intone with a sense of discovery, even reverence -- theres a little bit of the sacred inside the breathtaking Lullaby. Music this complicated isnt usually so unassuming, so human. This NFO File was rendered by NFOmation.net
