Tractor
Kings - Gone To Heaven
Artist:
Tractor Kings
Title: Gone To Heaven
Catalog#: Mud-CD-051
Price: $10.00  |
Tracks
on this CD: |
| Gone
To Heaven |
| Side
By Side |
| Take
Me Back |
| Buried
In the Sky |
Beautiful
Night |
| My
Little Cousin |
| Little
Moses |
| Never
Lonely |
| Goodnight |
| My
Old Ways Are Gone |
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Jacob Fleischli returns with his sophomore effort, Gone To
Heaven. Recorded at Matt (Centaur/Hum) Talbott's Great Western
Record Recorders in Tolono, Illinois - the same town that the Fleishli
forefathers settled in upon immigrating to the US. This record
is a fitting homecoming pairing Jake's obsession with death and
the ghosts of his past, merging his Bob Dylan fixation with Talbott's
sonic expertise. This is indeed a special album. In addition to
Dylan's pervasive influence (manifested most clearly through a
cover of A.P. Carter's "Little Moses") listeners will
hear echoes of the darker side of Uncle Tupelo (moreso toward Farrar's
soul-searching than Tweedy's pop), a rootsy-psychedelia akin to
Green On Red meets Beachwood Sparks meets Jesus And Mary Chain's "Psychocandy," and
the catharsis/psychosis of The Gun Club's "Fire Of Love" if
it were diffused through a prism formed by Mercury
Rev's "Deserters Songs" or immersed in a vat of My Morning Jacket.
(Don't think out it as a run-on sentence, think of it as Faulkner-esque.) Gone
To
Heaven is a dark journey, wrought with peril, but well-worth the trip. The
band that Jake's assembled for this outing includes Matt Filippo (The Mezzanines)
on bass, Angie Heaton (Corndolly/Liquorette) on drums, R.M. Racky on pedal steel,
Matt Talbott (Centaur/Hum) on guitar, tambourine, and vocals, Steve Ucherek (The
Blackouts/Land Camera Sound) on guitar and vocals, and Lyle Hodges (Amphibian)
on synthesizer.
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