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Blitzen Trapper : Blitzen Trapper
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"the last glass band on earth; truly transparent. the music that makes you talk backward tales of a minimart aflame & you."
Genre: Rock: Americana
Release Date: 2003
Blitzen Trapper Record Label: LidKerCow Ltd.
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Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
The All-Girl Team 3:12 Album Only
Cunning Revolution 4:23 Album Only
Appletrees 4:12 Album Only
Reno 3:31 Album Only
Whiskey Kisser 3:23 Album Only
Triggafinga 4:48 Album Only
Ansel and Emily Desader 3:09 Album Only
Cracker Went Down 1:49 Album Only
Christmas is Coming Soon 3:03 Album Only
Donkie Boy 3:00 Album Only
Texaco 3:56 Album Only
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Album Notes

"This band has the hottest fans in Spanners County mouthing De-Lish!!!" --Connie, SE Portland
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"Stick it in your legwarmer, it'll get you there" -- The Trapper HimSelf
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it plays while the clowns march idly by in panda-hats and windbreakers.
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this is the music of your childhood, hi-school, & love affair beneath the Texaco XOXOXO.
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"You're only as cool as we make you feel & vice versa." --La Mano Que Lava
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hiccoughing your dreams and memories in wine red hick whisper:
don't wait to find this album all over you, okay.
with love kisses in beer-skin boots.
love,
Koolio, Kid, Jomibie, Bleek & Pookie of the Tan Clan
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"Ohmygosh! This record has more stripes than a Tallahassee meth lab, so get those spurs on and sprint!" --Yolanda
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"NuBeat. No drummachines or 'loops', just real beat musick. They have created NuBeat." -- Mumia Fasao

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Debut release by Portland's Blitzen Trapper group.
Mixed by Gregg Williams (Sheryl Crow, Dandy Warhols, Bella Fayes).
Mastered by Roger at SAE (Tortoise, Cat Power, Pavement).
Produced by Arthel & Gaither for LidKerCow Ltd.
Limited edition recycled package
with collectors dust sleeve, made in Portland.

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REVIEWS

Aujourd'hui repabtisé BLITZEN TRAPPER, le groupe compte bien rattraper ce retard
author: Pierre - Soit Dit En Passant
BLITZEN TRAPPER a gagné sa place dans le paysage musical du northwest et de Portland en particulier, PDX pour les intimes. Curieux environement que Portland, homebase de nombreux groupes farouchement enracinés dans une longue tradition de culture rock underground américaine. On y trouve en vrac les DANDY WARHOLS, Gus Van Sant, le décor des premiers ébats de Courtney Love et Kurt Cobain... L'observateur européen collera spontanément sur PDX toute une collection d'images extraites de Twin Peaks - Garmonbozia, est une référence directe à Twin Peaks, et une scène du film "Fire walk with Me", où le fameux nain habitant les rêves de l'agent Cooper s'écrie 'Give me my garmonbozia!'. Drôle de sauce, riche de fantasmes rock. Autant les scènes de Californie évoquent lumière, soleil et insouciance, surf et heavy-metal ; l'Oregon et Portland appellent de plus sombres influences, tordues et multiples. BLITZEN TRAPPER transpire tout cela, bizarrerie, noirceur fascinante et extrême inventité musicale. Leur musique pioche tout aussi généreusement dans le rock, la pop la plus Lennon-MacCartney, la country, se pimente de sonorités électroniques. Fort d'une demi-douzaine d'albums, tous non-distribués au-delà du strict réseau de ses apparitions scèniques, BLITZEN TRAPPER possède une très impressionante expérience musicale, tant dans l'écriture que dans la production (le groupe compte quelques perles de sampling dans sa discographie). GARMONBOZIA représente une période d'études préliminaires de plusieurs années, débouchant aujourd'hui sur un état jugé suffisament évolué pour faire l'objet d'une véritable publication. Cette nouvelle doit donc être célébrée à grands cris. Un groupe majeur de la scène américaine vient de quitter sa réserve pour se lancer à la conquête des oreilles du monde. Pour nous, une chose est sûre, le miracle de Noël est là, et nulle part ailleurs.
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the teen spleen team
author: lou jacklich plays
Crack wise till the stuffed zebra shies away from an Indian Chief; this is the music that weasels into my spleen for keeps.
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The Oblique Mystique
author: Tom Powers
Eponymous debut makes good on digipack cover's promise to confound genres and music labellers alike. The next time my indie rock friends bust out a custom-made label that sounds something like 'post-nu-proto zydeco', I'll pass them this album and they'll explode by track two. Big ups, Marty and co.! The Olympia show (7/9/5) was the best all summer.
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An early contender for weirdest album of the year
author: Jeremy Searle, Americana-UK.com
An early contender for weirdest album of the year, Blitzen Trapper’s debut comes, appropriately enough, in an intricate, strange and slightly disturbing cover. It’s very much a “chuck it all in the pot to see what it tastes like” concoction. Sometimes (“Cracker Went Down”) they sound like skunks caught in a combine harvester, much as you might expect from their name. Other times (“Apple Trees”) they sound like they were the house band at the Airplane’s Haight-Asbury parties. At all times, they sound strange. And that’s before you get to the lyrics. There’s an angular unsettlingness about this music and you’ve never quite sure what’s going to happen next. With so many bases and styles being touched, often within the same song, let alone on different songs, it’s an up-and-down kind of album. Inevitably at times it sounds a bit contrived, but mostly it works. And when it does work, as on the gloriously languid “Trigga Finga” or the rolling “Angel and Emily Desader”, it really works. Sometimes it’s hard to see the band for the stylings, but nonetheless it’s an intriguing, if slightly uncomfortable, album, and one that repays repeated listening. It’s refreshing to hear something where there is a conscious effort to push boundaries and challenge the listener. JS
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