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- Date Released: April 1, 1995
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Indie Rock
- Label: Matador
Slow, grimy and as tender as a bad-news girlfriend
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We Say...
Mary Timony coos like she's trying to stare a hole through your head and plays guitar like she's trying to sand the whole building down to sawdust. Her trio's first full-length album, from 1995, is as tense and creepy as rock gets. The band's favorite trick is wrapping together the rough and the smooth — counterbalancing panther-clawed electric noise with airy chimes and synthesizers, punctuating sinuous melodies with gut-punches from their rhythm section, and reserving Timony's most seductive singing for "Honeycomb," a slow dance about a horrifyingly screwed-up relationship.
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They Say...
Helium's first full-length album expands on Timony's feminist lyrical bent and adds more colors to the band's musical palette. Full of what Timony calls "cartoon and monster movie music," The Dirt of Luck is a tight, focused album that is also diverse. The sludgy "Pat's Trick" mingles with the sweet-sounding and sweetly named "Honeycomb," which shares space with the nasty-sultry sounds of "Medusa" and the shimmery drone pop of "Baby's Going Underground." It's tied together by the album's spacious sound and Timony's singing, which is fuller and richer than on the group's debut.
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Pat's Trick |
3:20 |
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| 02. | |
Trixie's Star |
2:44 |
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| 03. | |
Silver Angel |
2:54 |
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| 04. | |
Baby's Going Underground |
6:24 |
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| 05. | |
Medusa |
3:10 |
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| 06. | |
Comet #9 |
2:09 |
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| 07. | |
Skeleton |
4:11 |
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| 08. | |
Superball |
2:35 |
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| 09. | |
All The X's Have Wings |
3:13 |
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| 10. | |
Oh The Wind And Rain |
5:29 |
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| 11. | |
Honeycomb |
4:22 |
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| 12. | |
Flower Of The Apocalypse |
3:46 |
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12 Total Tracks, 44:17 Total Length
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Credits
- Helium - Producer // Helium - Main Performer // Shawn Devlin - Percussion // Shawn Devlin - Drums // Adam Lasus - Producer // Mary Timony - Organ // Mary Timony - Bass // Mary Timony - Guitar // Mary Timony - Keyboards // Mary Timony - Vocals // Mary Timony - Xylophone // Ash Bowie - Bass // Ash Bowie - Guitar // Ash Bowie - Keyboards
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