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December 13, 2004
Attack of the Hellidoctors
Slowreader - Politics, Music, and Drugs
This song lightly addresses the issue of social anxiety disorder. Slowreader, which is/was the two main songwriters from the Impossibles (Gabe Hascall and Rory Phillips), has created an inviting atmosphere out of acoustic guitars, hand claps, tight harmonies, and soaring choral vocals. 'Politics, Music, and Drugs' captures that post-party letdown particularly well- or more accurately, the unraveling and splintering of participants (both with respect to location and emotions) following the climax of a party.
Gabe sings, 'I don't have many ways/to tame the boring but/if you'd like to stay/I'll tell you all I know/about politics, music, and drugs/and then it's time to go', as a last-ditch effort to push his companion away from thinking about her warm, comfy bed and into thinking about where this party (which is down to just the two of them) is heading next.
This is from one of my favorite albums of last year (which I was introduced to by my brother), and despite that fact, or maybe because of it, I have a hard time writing about it- or at least writing about the reasons why I like it so much. I will say that it's good 'disappointed music', in that it justifies and nurtures any sort of malaise. Basically, you put this music on when you're in a bad mood and you want something that's sympathetic and pretty. It's very good for that. Purchase it for your next down-swing.
Posted by matt at December 13, 2004 08:00 AM
Comments
hellidoctors!!
Posted by: L at December 14, 2004 11:15 PM
Crazy guy, good job keeping Rory and Gabe alive!
Posted by: Steve at December 15, 2004 10:35 AM
Hellidoctors + Rory and Gabe = priceless. For those of you who don't know what the title of this post means, here's the joke:
Q:"what do you call something that flies around and helps people?"
A:"A hellidoctor"
Hopefully Gabe will get his ass in gear with his new band, Record Heat.
Posted by: Kevin at December 15, 2004 02:37 PM
First, I love your blog. It's my favorite. Second, I work at Insound. Third, I downloaded this slowreader track -- I had never heard of them -- and really liked it, so I passed it on to our buyer. He also liked it and brought in some copies of the record. Then he put it on the homepage, and it sold about 25 copies. I don't know if this makes you feel good or not, but to me, it's a nice synthesis of music appreciation, band appreciation, mp3 blogs and music discovery, and more exposure for good little lost records. Thanks for what you do.
Posted by: nicki at January 25, 2005 02:36 PM