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- Date Released: April 28, 2009
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Indie Rock
- Label: Hidden Agenda / Parasol Records
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We Say...
Storied Seattle band serves up another offering of lonesome jangle-pop topped with the wry lyrics and dour vocals of Jim Kelly. There isn't a lot of light in the PJs universe, but that's what makes them so engaging -- after a solid 25 years, Kelly and company are still finding ways to sing us sweetly into that great sleep.
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They Say...
Seattle's Green Pajamas have been building a formidable catalog of shape-shifting neo-psychedelic-power pop since their inception in the mid-'80s. Unlike other veteran acts, the band has managed to navigate through the minefield of music scenes over the ensuing decades with its integrity intact, gleaning bits of grunge, dream pop, alternative folk, and indie rock where it sees fit while holding true to its paisley underground roots. On Poison in the Russian Room, the group's seventh release for Hidden Agenda, the band has crafted its most cohesive and blisteringly esoteric collection yet by combining the best attributes of the Pacific Northwest (the grungy guitars of the city center and the rainy acid folk of the islands). A self-described "conceptual piece," Poison in the Russian Room lurches out of the tool shed with the heavy-handed "Lonesome End of the Lake," a brutal midtempo jam that blends the attitude and decibels of Urge Overkill with the druggy haze of late-period Current 93. That trajectory is followed loosely throughout the album's first half before spiraling into a Comus/Horslips rabbit hole of late-'60s/early-'70s acid folk -- singer Jeff Kelly's yo-yo vocal delivery is eerily reminiscent of Incredible String Band mastermind Robin Williamson -- called "In Search of the Elusive Fairy Queen and Some Pleasure Unknown." Atmospheric instrumental vignettes and spooky vocal breakdowns that feel like "cutscenes" in a horror video game are peppered throughout the record, adding to its surreal, cinematic nature, but it's the proper songs that carry the most weight, especially Eric Lichter's "Suicide Subways," an oddly beautiful yet ultimately unsettling account of people who leap to their death in the Tokyo underground.
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| 01. |  |
The Lonesome End of the Lake |
3:26 |
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| 02. | |
Poison In the Russian Room |
2:21 |
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| 03. | |
Any Way the Wind Blows |
4:00 |
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| 04. | |
Cristina Dancing |
3:08 |
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| 05. | |
This Angel's On Fire |
4:52 |
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| 06. | |
Mr. Ivan |
2:59 |
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| 07. | |
Queen of Broken Hearts |
3:17 |
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| 08. | |
Suicide Subways |
4:41 |
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| 09. | |
Song |
0:50 |
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| 10. | |
The Fairy Queen I |
4:13 |
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| 11. | |
Who's That Calling |
7:41 |
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| 12. | |
The Sinner In My Soul |
3:13 |
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| 13. | |
Some Pleasure Unknown |
5:14 |
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| 14. |
Open Your Eyes |
0:37 |
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| 15. | |
The Fairy Queen II |
3:40 |
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| 16. | |
Poison In the Russian Room [reprise] |
1:48 |
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16 Total Tracks, 56:00 Total Length
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Credits
- Craig Flory - Saxophone // Jeff Kelly - Producer // Janet Wesley Kelly - Vocals // Susanne Kelly - Vocals // Kevin Devine - Guitar // Eric Lichter - Producer
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