BLITZEN TRAPPER: Field Rexx

Blitzen Trapper

Field Rexx

© 2004 Blitzen Trapper (751937261223)

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notes

five junk dealers and a black mountain street freak.
the work of an expert taxidermist.
or broken tape recorder.

two toothless wrecks. the impossible yellow superforce.

love loves to love love.

falling through the webs of AM static clinging to the eardrums of the
ranchers and disheartened farmhands, static in a hundred Japanese
hatchbacks, a thousand cabs of pickup trucks.

Great humpback whales of sound, bellowing in the subterranean Indian
summer wind, surfacing for a moment, breaching.

born in a brown dream. Gleaning in fields sown with
cancer and woe, winding yarn from eiderdown and cupie dolls.

the last glass band brings another tall ball of crell and pattie-cake, superimposed upon the silver brill cream dreams of the founding fathers.

recorded for $22 on a dank and androgynous 4-track this meagre offering reminds the wearer that a thimble full of soul sticks to the teeth like laughter and that first kiss in summer.

so strap on yer stilletos and giddy-up.

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  • I need more
    author: Landon

    This album always finds its way back into my CD player. It has everything I need in an album... keep 'em coming and keep 'em coming to Lexington, KY.

  • author: alfie

    Blitzen Trapper sound like they're trying to paint the Sistine Chapel with a box of crayons. awesome.

  • With a punk-rock sort of defiance to rules, Blitzen Trapper have stumbled upon a
    author: Neumu

    Blitzen Trapper have more than talent alone. They have this quirky knack for merging traditionally non-mergeable sounds and making it work. And well! They cross country twang with spacey electronics, classic indie rock vocals (think Stephen Malkmus meets Isaac Brock) with R&B grooves. With a punk-rock sort of defiance to rules, Blitzen Trapper have stumbled upon an inventive way to make indie rock interesting again.

  • author: Jason Crock, Pitchfork

    Blitzen Trapper have earned a handful of fans in their native Portland, Ore., for their playful, ADD-like songs, but their sophomore effort shouldn't be dismissed as fluff-- Field Rexx is an earnest crack at bluegrass, country, and folk that's young and brazen enough to incorporate elements from multiple genres. [...] Quirkiness isn't the main selling point of Field Rexx, however-- it simply has a healthy sense of variation. There's a lot of disparate, whimsical sonic elements in the disc's earlier songs, and they're tastefully incorporated, but most of the memorable twists and turns are provided the old-fashioned way, like the subtle guitar lead in "Summer Twin". On Field Rexx, Blitzen Trapper may not take the same chances as other genre-bending artists, but nor do they strive to. It simply (and successfully) aims a back-porch country/folk album for left-of-the-dial tastes.

  • author: lou jacklich plays

    Better than digital chess, or a chest of broken beehives, or concrete chewing gum. I lost my wedding ring in this album!

  • J'ai les yeux et les oreilles tournés vers Portland, Oregon.
    author: SDEP.com

    C'est plus fort que moi. Je me suis même abonné à la mailing-list PDX-pop qui m'informe en temps réel de tous les concerts de la ville. Bon, vous vous en doutez, ça ne m'avance pas à grand chose. Mais c'est symptomatique de ma fixette actuelle. Fixette provoquée par une surcharge d'enthousiasme relatif aux DANDY WARHOLS, puis rapidement entretenue par la découverte de GARMONBOZIA (précédente identité de BLITZEN TRAPPER), THE OUT CROWD, INVISIBLE, KIESKAGATO... et j'en passe. Je ne verrais certainement jamais Portland, ou alors dans très longtemps, et c'est peut-être encore mieux comme ça. Je garderai d'autant plus longtemps une image fantasmée de cette ville, sorte de Twin Peaks rock revisité par Gus Van Sant. J'attendais avec une impatience non-dissimulée la venue de ce second album signé BLITZEN TRAPPER, ou le premier si on considère que le premier, éponyme, était une seconde livraison de l'ultime album de GARMONBOZIA "Duble Pepy Majic Plus". D'ailleurs, le groupe concède lui-aussi, que "Field Rexx" est un petit peu leur premier album. Un album qui satisfait beaucoup plus ses membres que le précédent, parait-il. Avec "Field Rexx", l'identité et l'écriture de BLITZEN TRAPPER s'affirment et se renforcent. Sur quelques titres, on pourra presque leur reprocher de faire du BLITZEN TRAPPER ("Love, I Explain!"). Leur répertoire délaisse quelques influences trop évidentes - notamment Beatlesiennes ou country - pour mieux se recentrer sur la vraie signature du groupe : son mélange americana tordue, rock psyché, country (un tout petit petit peu). Le son BLITZEN TRAPPER est là, il est indéniable, l'écriture aussi. La force de l'album se trouve dans l'étonnante facilité de pénétration de ses mélodies, véritables têtes chercheuses à synapses. A la fois planant et entraînant, entêtant et rafraîchissant, "Field Rexx" brille par des qualités aux antipodes les unes des autres. Des atouts confortablement posés sur une base imputrescible d'harmonies tortueuses, de chœurs impeccables (et c'est balaise, les chœurs, sans tomber dans le mimétisme BEACH BOYS ou BEATLES). BLITZEN TRAPPER signe un disque jouissif chaleureux que l'on aime s'approprier. Un peu comme le groupe lui-même et son étonnante histoire.

  • the has...
    author: Ruffer Byrd

    A full, frontal, chakra shockrotomy given by a rabid pack a smokes... Really!!!

  • Great band, Great album....
    author: Fatty

    Another great album! Keep'em coming! or else...

  • Four Tracks?
    author: Angelo De Ieso II

    This album has been so anticipated since BT's self-titled release a year and a half ago or so. Field Rexx features crowd favorites now available on CD...cuts such as Cold Gold Diamond, 40 Stripes, and Leopard's Will...I love how the Earley family tree is represented with some clips from 1982 which blend nicely with BT's modern countrified rock sound. And it seems ludacris that this sick album was done on a 4-track for 22$. Just proof that Trapper is Portland's most innovative and perhaps most talented group.

  • a good rewive owf the field rexx ... im thinkin you wll understand
    author: kylle

    this field irexx cd deservesa ll the hotness of the mexx to the mexx.... so many myusiunsic sterive to achiev thie kind of of thiss.. and i just wanna tell everone that if you can imagine it... blitezne has done it here l,... awakre from the sleep and taking on a new foem with each soneg... you can;t ecpenct anything .. eits totally inepexted... like tiking a a walke in the park bot a while.. kust hearin ght e treess talk and having the universe upen op like a cmoin book and tell you a sotryues.. summer tiwn and foty strpes and dreamersguants with make you cray if you let... peace be tithw youl

  • author: Imogene Tesfaye

    A noradrenaline-induced serotonin liberation of Raphe neurons is suggested as possible underlying mechanism. Like a dove landing in your cereal. And in this, as in so much, this is the album that serves you well when you're tired of leaning across the room to get your hand back.

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