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| Madmo |
| El Madmo |
| első megjelenés éve: 2008 |
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| (2008)
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| 3.566 Ft
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| 1. | Carlo!
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| 2. | Head in a Vise
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| 3. | Vampire Guy
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| 4. | GGW
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| 5. | Sweet Adrenaline
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| 6. | Attack of the Rock People
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| 7. | The Best Part
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| 8. | Fantasy Guy
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| 9. | I Like It Low
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| 10. | Scary Lady
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| 11. | Nonny Goat Mon
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| 12. | Rock Yer Balls Off
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Jazz
Born of social ineptitude and an ageless belief in trick-or-treatery, EL MADMO offers escape, justice, karmic postulation, and that feeling you get when you know something that no one else does. Starting out as a garage band trapped in the basements of various hockey arenas, theirs is a powerfully raw sound that could only be inspired by the smell of Zamboni fuel and sweaty skates.
The band consists of guitarist/singer, Maddie, bassist/singer, El, and majestically afroed drummer, Mo. Their self-titled debut album, produced by MISTAREE, is a solid piece of body rocking ear-munition revealing a musical labyrinth that challenges you to, "Choose your own adventure". From the Aeolian darkness of "Vampire Guy", to the sassy cha-cha of "Fantasy Guy", to a song that simply asks, "What good is a smile when your head's in a vise?", EL MADMO serves up a hot and tasty meal that'll fill you up and also "Rock Yer Balls Off".
* Greg Calbi - Mastering
* Matt Boynton - Engineer, Mixing
* Mike Shea - Illustrations, Layout Design
* Tom Schick - Engineer, Mixing
Say this for Norah Jones: she's determined to shake her reputation as a coffeehouse chanteuse. She only spent one album refining the jazz-folk of her unexpected blockbuster 2002 debut Come Away With Me before she started to stray off the reservation, singing country cabaret with the Little Willies in 2006, penning all the songs on her thick hazy 2007 album Not Too Late, following that with the alt-rock jape El Madmo in 2008. As the trio - Norah supported by Daru Oda and Andrew Borger of her backing group the Handsome Band - adopt stage names, sport shock wigs, smear their eyes with heavy makeup and sing songs called "Rock Yer Balls Off" they're easy to tag as "punk," but that label doesn't quite fit, even if their self-titled debut opens with a rash of songs littered with curses. There are no frantic rhythms, the guitars are always in clean, crisp tones and by the time El Madmo hits its mid-point, the trio already are dipping into a slow groove for "I Like It Low," a song smoky enough to be an eccentric tunes on a proper Norah Jones album. Here, it's a bit of an exception to the rule, but El Madmo are simply not punks. They're imps, telling silly jokes about the cool dude with the good pot, going for obvious rhymes, rolling their tongues and singing in rastaman accents, playing songs that are deliberately amateurish but sometimes accidentally turn into very good pop songs. Sometimes, all this joshing around veers towards the cutesy (how could it not?) but El Madmo manages to avoid the hipster trap of being self-satisfied, possibly because they're so goofy they refuse to be taken seriously, possibly they're skilled musicians that still can sound good when they're striving to be sloppy, possibly because Norah Jones remains a compelling vocalist even when she's singing nonsense. Any way you look at it, El Madmo isn't meant to be taken seriously, it's just a lark, but surprisingly it's almost as much fun for the listener as it is for the band.
---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide |
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