Field Rexx
© Copyright-Blitzen Trapper
(751937261223)
Record Label: LidKerCow Ltd.
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five junk dealers and a black mountain street freak.
the work of an expert taxidermist.
or broken tape recorder.
two toothless wrecks. the impossible yellow superforce.
love loves to love love.
falling through the webs of AM static clinging to the eardrums of the
ranchers and disheartened farmhands, static in a hundred Japanese
hatchbacks, a thousand cabs of pickup trucks.
Great humpback whales of sound, bellowing in the subterranean Indian
summer wind, surfacing for a moment, breaching.
born in a brown dream. Gleaning in fields sown with
cancer and woe, winding yarn from eiderdown and cupie dolls.
the last glass band brings another tall ball of crell and pattie-cake, superimposed upon the silver brill cream dreams of the founding fathers.
recorded for $22 on a dank and androgynous 4-track this meagre offering reminds the wearer that a thimble full of soul sticks to the teeth like laughter and that first kiss in summer.
so strap on yer stilletos and giddy-up.
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author: Landon
This album always finds its way back into my CD player. It has everything I need in an album... keep 'em coming and keep 'em coming to Lexington, KY.
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author: alfie
Blitzen Trapper sound like they're trying to paint the Sistine Chapel with a box of crayons. awesome.
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author: lou jacklich plays
Better than digital chess, or a chest of broken beehives, or concrete chewing gum. I lost my wedding ring in this album!
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author: Jason Crock, Pitchfork
Blitzen Trapper have earned a handful of fans in their native Portland, Ore., for their playful, ADD-like songs, but their sophomore effort shouldn't be dismissed as fluff-- Field Rexx is an earnest crack at bluegrass, country, and folk that's young and brazen enough to incorporate elements from multiple genres. [...] Quirkiness isn't the main selling point of Field Rexx, however-- it simply has a healthy sense of variation. There's a lot of disparate, whimsical sonic elements in the disc's earlier songs, and they're tastefully incorporated, but most of the memorable twists and turns are provided the old-fashioned way, like the subtle guitar lead in "Summer Twin". On Field Rexx, Blitzen Trapper may not take the same chances as other genre-bending artists, but nor do they strive to. It simply (and successfully) aims a back-porch country/folk album for left-of-the-dial tastes.
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