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- Date Released: February 6, 2006
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Brit Pop, Indie Rock
- Label: Fortuna POP / IODA
This bedroom producer has the perfect soundtrack for your next rainy Sunday afternoon
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We Say...
Cannonball Jane is the nom de musique for one-woman lo-fi sampling wizard Sharon Hagopain. Recorded entirely in her bedroom, Street Vernacular has a ragged sonic texture that evokes a wide range of female influences — you're bound to notice nods to everyone from classic '60s girl groups to Luscious Jackson and Le Tigre. The opening track, "Slumber Party," wraps a Carole King piano line around somber horns and old skool rhythms, creating a dreamy shuffle — the perfect soundtrack for your next rainy Sunday afternoon. "Hey! Hey! Alright!" starts with a foundation of Casio and fuzz guitar to create an upbeat pop song that could be a hybrid of Kathleen Hanna and the Go-Gos. "Such Is the Score” also transcends boundaries, alternating a slinky big band backbeat with that familiar Funky Drummer shuffle that laid the foundation for hip-hop. Despite its heavy reliance on samples and looping, the album also incorporates the recklessness of garage rock. As a result, Cannonball Jane has created music that would be equally welcome in either a hip lounge or a rock dive.
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They Say...
Triangulated somewhere between the Go! Team, April March, and the more recent bands led by U.K. twee queen Amelia Fletcher (Marine Research, Tender Trap), the debut album by Connecticut's Cannonball Jane is every bit as adorable as that description implies. Cannonball Jane, by day an elementary school music teacher named Sharon Jane Hagopian, builds her D.I.Y. songs from rickety drum machine beats, weedy synthesizers, obscure samples, and her own helium-pitched voice. What makes Street Vernacular more than the average slice of cutesy indie electronica is Hagopian's extensive vocal and instrumental training, as well as the lessons of her day job: these songs don't confuse "simple and direct" with "underwritten." Each song is exquisitely arranged, working enjoyable changes on the same basic building blocks and adding perfect touches like the swooping oscillators and heavily reverbed and overdubbed "shoobie-doo-wah" harmonies of "Fine Reminder," turning the song into something akin to Stereolab exploring the Four Freshmen's back catalog, or the flute and handclaps that power "Automatic Knockout." Opening track and first single "Slumber Party" is a pure pop delight right up there with Feist's "1234," but it's only the beginning; many albums in this style get by on enthusiasm and attitude, but Cannonball Jane has the pop smarts to turn Street Vernacular into something truly great.
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Slumber Party |
3:34 |
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| 02. | |
Hey! Hey! Alright! |
2:46 |
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| 03. | |
Such Is The Score |
1:25 |
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| 04. | |
Breaker Breaker |
3:05 |
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| 05. | |
Taxi |
3:05 |
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| 06. | |
Add A Wrap |
2:55 |
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| 07. | |
Fine Remindrer |
3:17 |
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| 08. | |
Brave New Word |
2:47 |
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| 09. | |
Automatic Knockout |
2:41 |
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| 10. | |
Let's Go |
3:07 |
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| 11. | |
The Force Of Gravity |
2:58 |
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11 Total Tracks, 31:40 Total Length
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