Saturday, August 09, 2003


Firewater


The first three Firewater albums didn’t really do it for me. Oh sure, I loved the concept — Tod A. (ex-Cop Shoot Cop) leads a post-everything indie band (including ex-Soul Coughing drum god Yuval Gabay) that bends boundaries, roping in influences from everything from punk to klezmer to show tunes, but the idea always seemed to beat the execution. I’m happy to say that their fourth album, the Man on the Burning Tightrope, finally lives up to the initial interest I had when I first heard of the band. I haven’t looked at the lyrics enough to know whether or not it’s a concept album per se, but theres a sonic unity to it that suggests it might be.


:: Dave Walker 10:06 (EST/EDT) [+]

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