Gorillas Under the Trippy Willows
You've got to love a CD booklet that juxtaposes talking points from Futurist manifestos with those of the Unabomber. Well, you don't have to, but chances are that if that strikes you as cool, so will the rest of the package, and indeed Sleepytime Gorilla Museum's latest album does not fail to live up to the promise of its liner notes. "The Donkey-Headed Adversary Of Humanity Opens The Discussion" makes you want to move your Bottom, and "Phthisis" sees the Museum getting their Lacuna Coil on, while they manage to resurrect the old name for TB (no matter how much of a jab it would seem to be at a lisper's attempt to say "physicist").
And if all that crunching's got you down, you can relax with Michael Finnissy's setting of "Willow, Willow", which was the first traditional English tune that Percy Grainger ever set. "Terekkeme" from the same disc hints at his more typical syntax, and it's just the thing to put your gorillas to bed.
(Hint: He's not the guy doing the screaming.)Labels: jodru
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