SMC: VENEER ~ Jose Gonzalez

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  • psycosmic
    psycosmic Posts: 504
    i usually try not to read the reviews before i form an opionion on a SMC record...
    but now i've gotta say that everything i was about to say about this album has already been said...
    however, i'd like to stress again that it is a mood record... some times it would do nothing for me, other times it's just the kind of atmosphere i need... i'd group him with devendra banhart and sufjan stevens but he's definitely a lot less experimental and easier to swallow which doesn't have to be a bad thing... the songs are more immediate than those of the aforementioned artists...
    i also like his guitar playing a lot...
    did i already say it's a mood record? yes, i guess so...
    but there are mood records and mood records... i'm trying not to get off topic but while i think that björk's "medulla", for example, is an amazing mood record i'm almost never in the mood for that album... jose gonzales, however, soundtracks a mood i'm in a lot... it's not my new favourite record but i'll be coming back to this...
    ~~~
    Some days you wake up and sit on a park bench next to an eighty year old Russian architect, and some days you don't. I think this is my new life philosophy.

    http://epplehausradio.blogspot.com/

    pearl jam @ the astoria, london, 20/04/06
  • psycosmic
    psycosmic Posts: 504
    bump...

    i just received the actual cd as a birthday present, so i'm listening to this even more...
    and i have to say he's really growing on me...
    ~~~
    Some days you wake up and sit on a park bench next to an eighty year old Russian architect, and some days you don't. I think this is my new life philosophy.

    http://epplehausradio.blogspot.com/

    pearl jam @ the astoria, london, 20/04/06

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