BLITZEN TRAPPER: Blitzen Trapper

Blitzen Trapper

Blitzen Trapper

© 2003 Blitzen Trapper (634479129728)

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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."

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"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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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • I want to convert my basement into a pirate radio station
    author: Erick Mertz - Cosmik Debris

    Listening to Portland's Blitzen Trapper makes me want to convert my basement into a pirate radio station, a place for my own transmission and communication. The songs on their self-titled, self-released album are one part tweed wearing, heel tapping country, and another Pixies rock, and I imagine some of the callers to my show would find them eccentric. They'd wonder whose voice that is, breaking into falsetto over lyrics about fake fur coats and all girl teams; what anonymous vagabond strums that bass (and isn't that a stand-up?) with a fool's simplicity and a renegade's pomp. And I wouldn't answer, at least not with any literal affirmation. In part, I'd help retain their anonymity because of the personal nature with which I'd surely build my clandestine station. More though, I'd leave the names and identities clean from Blitzen Trapper because I think we all get too caught up in the "how" and "why" pertaining to bands of their ilk. Every freebie tabloid in town slathers at the thought of picking apart even the least wry and witty of our popular artists and what they'd do with these pale faced, knee slapping hombres might not be pretty. The "why" behind some of this might be better silenced. I'd avoid testimony too, because the album may be good enough to speak for itself. Once on a stony winter drive through the Willamette Valley, the bass player for this outfit (now see, I do know who they are) described the sound of his new project as Neil Young meets Pink Floyd. As much as I'd like to undermine his precocious description of this improbable marriage, I find it is an apt one. The wonderful "Trigga Finga" feels like a refugee from the joint session when Meddle and After The Gold Rush were born. If I'd had this album and the song "Texaco" at my disposal the last time cross country, I might have swung through Texas rather than Minnesota. One time all the way through, and the feelings of private ownership this album inspires become unshakeable. This is a credible rock and country stomp corporation, who deserve an increasing amount of esteem, for the sole purpose of their ability to write, yes, unusual hits.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • play this cd and life will feel better
    author: vacuum boots

    SCENE ONE: four young children twist and skip in strange patterns to celebrate the first burst of music from a brand new stereo. SCENE TWO: seven random men chat up one foreign girl who's walking laps around the shopping centre. SCENE THREE: electra in the backseat quietly sings christmas is coming soon while two of her brothers sleep through the journey down and around the hill. SCENE FOUR: a birthday barbecue high up above the city is taking place in the other room, but the foreign girl's standing behind the drum kit with a baby on her hip. AND THE MORAL OF THE STORY IS: if you move to LA, you start thinking in movies. no, that's not at all what this is about, forget i said that. AND THE MORAL OF THE STORY IS: if you buy this blitzen trapper cd all manner of good little scenes will creep their way into your life and, as if by magic, blitzenT will be the perfect soundtrack to all of them.

  • author: flower

    It is like the best peppermint pot brownie made in a pink stoved kitchen: mix together 1 bit of the dead, cup of the eels, dash of incredible string band and just a pinch of zappa. bake it in your cd player. serve with fairy dust. enjoy! Oh my god I can't stop eating it up!

  • blitzentrapper = justin + clay + rueben + a dash of kelly
    author: kieskagato

    Blitzentrapper is huge everywhere in France- how could they not be, given their masterful weaving of musical textures, melodies, elegantly penned lyrics... The debut lp hits America with what will surely amount to a mass of critical acclaim- as it's the best thing to hit the country from the old world since abba.

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