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November 02, 2004
Bring my car I feel to ____ it
Painting Soldiers - Poison Apples
"I really can't stand the feel of a sweater coming up on to my wrist anymore." That's the way this song starts, a little before-music banter to get things rolling, which is always welcome. I love the genuine (or calculated, if you're cynical) spontaneity created by intra-band conversation caught on record (see also the very beginning of Radiohead's 2+2 = 5 for another small example of this). Then 'Poison Apples' gets going, and damn if it doesn't swagger and cut. The guitars sound so casually mean, and the drums keep a war beat going throughout- Andrea Hansen's Nico-ish voice barely climbs above everything to deliver the warning: 'don't poison me/don't poison the apple trees'. This track, I swear, sounds like it could have easily been an outtake from 'Beggars Banquet'-era Stones. It has that enviable slick + dashed-together dichotomy that a lot of Stones' earlier stuff possessed.
This comes from a vinyl-only mini-LP that the Social Registry released (I would literally marry this label if I could, all they do is put out..........good records! What a comedy-bit! I'm taking that joke on the road, people. Watch out for it at the CMJ Laughatronic showcase next fall) last April. You can still buy it and play it and love it, if you have a turntable. Another salient point: Painting Soldiers is a side-project for Andrea Hansen. She's mostly involved in the Icewater Scandal, who are (non-coincidentally) SR labelmates. Basically, what I'm trying to say is that you should write to Social Registry and send them a box full of money so they can mail you their entire discography. Hours and hours of fantastic music, for low, low prices. Plus they're really nice people, those Social Registrars. Noiseblastmusic. MMM.
P.S. I'd like to congratulate Anne Rosso on winning the Wolf Parade contest. For some reason, Typepad is not allowing me to change the motto like the truculent bitch that it is (I'll get you next time, Typepad!!). Since between 1 and 3 people entered the contest, I'd say it was pretty successful, overall. Next time I'll offer up 12 Spanish dubloons and let the chips fall where they may.
Posted by matt at November 2, 2004 08:00 AM