So, number 8 of my best of top 10 2007 countdown!
Band: Blonde Redhead Title: 23 Best Track: The Dress Best Line: “Your love waits you while you are cheating.”
Trivia: The seventh album of Blonde Redhead. “Silently” was the first single Saw them live in the 013 Mike Mills directed the vid of “Top Ranking”, starring Miranda July
They have been around for quite a while now, and Blonde Redhead is already a celebrated name in the New York scene. Their latest album, "23", is a great listen because it has an air of aerial, an air of mystique, which they juxtapose with tracks with guitar distortions and that are just that bit more rocky. Sometimes the lyrics are mystifying, at other times they are emotionally charged. In "The Dress" Kazu Makino in her typical voice puts herself in the role of someone who is being cheated on, and she sings "I love you less, now that I know you". The transition to the next track, "SW" is fantastic and typical of this album. From the aerial sadness of "The Dress" they get to a more rocky sound, sung by one of the Simone brothers. It is an accomplished seventh album by the New York formed trio.
"But its addition is a glimpse of the growth that separates has-beens from steady-goings. The band have come full circle and kept going."- Stylus
"Where one is tempted to put, for example, ‘Neon Bible’ aside and not listen to it again for the next ten years, lest the fairy tale-like magic fade, ‘23’ is a record that demands to be heard again and again, each repeated play unraveling the delicate tapestry of guitar and Makino’s haunting voice, slowly revealing it to be a near-classic of atmosphere and tension."- Gigwise.com
"23 is one of Blonde Redhead’s strongest efforts to date, containing far more in the way of memorable melodies and songwriting subtleties than the band has previously exhibited."- PopMatters
My Trusted MOGs
It's pretty good. Perhaps their 3rd best. I like it quite a bit.
My Trusted MOGs
I really like this record and was somewhat put off by it at first. However, I kept finding my way back to it. I am still re-arranging my list for 2007 but this one looks like it will be somewhere in my top ten. Good choice SA.
My Trusted MOGs
Schweet! Even enveloping...
My Trusted MOGs
Good to hear you all like this album as well! :)
I still have to take a good listen to their other albums, but you saying that this is their third best certainly is an incentive for me to do so. :P