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- Date Released: November 7, 2006
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Alternative Experimental
- Label: Bar/None Records
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We Say...
See those track lengths? Boston's The Slip are a band that takes their time. The songs on their fifth record, Eisenhower, boast tangled instrumental passages, big blurts of sound and sweet, soaring vocals. More than just a neo-jam band, though, The Slip has keen pop instincts. "Suffocation Keep" is a moody, meditative lullaby worthy of the Pernice Brothers and "Life in Disguise" has the kind of gently swaying chorus that could function as the center of a modern folk song.
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They Say...
Jam band the Slip chose their 2006 release Eisenhower to show that they're capable of stepping outside the boundaries of hippie-hash college music, and maybe they shouldn't have. The disc shows the band cunningly embracing alt pop conventions almost completely one moment, and becoming lost in a quagmire of their own wanderings the next. A few tracks, like "Even Rats," leave the Slip's roots behind altogether and embrace an indie rock sound almost completely -- and with great success. A handful of others plod headlong into the group's jamming past, like the eight-minute opus "Paper Birds," a rambling monument of improvisation with barely a discernible refrain. Most of the songs on the album are built on a musical idea of melding these two genres. The group does not always achieve this hybridization very gracefully, as on "Suffocation Keep," where a perfectly nice, spacy ballad gets stretched into mopey, sad-bastard music. The formula works on the majority of the songs, however, where the jamming style brings something distinctly nonlinear to the traditional pop song format, creating something delightfully unconventional and unique. The tone of these tracks avoids silliness or kitsch -- even when singer Brad Barr careens into flying falsetto -- but it never really feels serious or self-important, either. This brand of laid-back, often danceable rock holds steady at a level of emotion that never steps within ten feet of emo; the music's expressiveness, though far from cold, lies in an intimate and cerebral space rather than a cathartic one. This sound shares a stage with everybody from Phoenix and Under the Influence of Giants to Coldplay and My Bloody Valentine. The Slip's experiment in absorbing these poppy influences is basically a success, at best providing a pensive, emotive soundtrack to a quiet day and at worst, making you want to listen to Phoenix or Coldplay.
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Children of December |
4:49 |
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| 02. | |
Even Rats |
5:33 |
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| 03. | |
If One of Us Should Fall |
5:26 |
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| 04. | |
Airplane / Primitive |
6:55 |
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| 05. | |
Suffocation Keep |
5:21 |
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| 06. | |
First Panda in Space |
2:20 |
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| 07. | |
The Soft Machine |
4:21 |
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| 08. | |
Life in Disguise |
3:45 |
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| 09. | |
Mothwing Bite |
3:29 |
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| 10. | |
The Original Blue Air |
2:24 |
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| 11. | |
Paper Birds |
8:19 |
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11 Total Tracks, 52:42 Total Length
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Credits
- Isaac Taylor - Vocals // Perry Serpa - Publicity // Andy VanDette - Mastering // Matthew Ellard - Producer // Matthew Ellard - Engineer // Matthew Ellard - Mixing // Kristen Smith - Assistant // Marc Friedman - Group Member // The Slip - Producer // Brad Barr - Group Member // Andrew Barr - Group Member // Chris Seligman - French Horn // Matt Tahaney - Assistant // Drew Malamud - Engineer // Drew Malamud - Mixing // John Frattalone - Management // Gabri Athayde - Cello // Grayson Farmer - Flugelhorn // Nellie Fleischner - Vocals // Rosie Kirincic - Vocals // Mister Thecake - Design // Mister Thecake - Layout Design
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