The Fun Years Baby, It's Cold Inside
Title: The Fun Years - Baby, It's Cold Inside
Label: Barge Recordings
Cataloge No: BRG005
Type: Album
Reviewer: Rich
Date: 3, August, 2008
This one has totally got me, I really don't know how to write everything down that I want to about this stunning album. How do I describe the way this duo manage to put everything around you on hold with their absurdly wonderful blend of turntable static tape loops and lush baritone guitar manipulations? I don't think I can do this one justice at all and I seem to recall thinking the same for last years debut. But still, I guess I can try, but I may as well say now it won't be enough, words can't describe things like this.
The five tracks here somehow pick up where Life-sized Psychoses left off with opener My Lowville almost feeling like a real ending to that album with its huge sound that builds up and up and..... I really have no idea what the hell I am writing here. I can't write enough of what I want to write about this album, and I can't do it effectively enough. It's not that it's hard, it just wont work.
Really, Barge Recordings have put out a stunner here. It radiates beauty but in the most distant and lonely way, almost as if something is just waiting slowly for years and years for the one small moment of joy that is anticipated. Nothing moves too fast here, and yet nothing feels too long, I could (and probably should) say something about this being another ambient drone release, but I'm not going to, that couldn't do any justice. It isn't even ambient enough to say that, at times this is pure rousing punk rock, that is killing me to know what to write about. Even to the point where I received an email from the label asking about the review. That was a week or so ago now, and this is probably not the final draft anyway. Maybe it is. I don't know but one thing is for sure this album is not one to be pigeon-holed into some kind of genre that could include anything and still not be any closer to just what this record sounds like.
And, I'm still rambling aimlessly, but maybe somehow I have put this album across in the right light. This isn't something to listen to and ignore, sure you can ignore but it still manages to grab you by the balls and scream (quietly) down your ear. Whatever, there are better reviews out there that quite probably describe this better than I ever could, but Barge have done it again that is for sure, I'm baffled and stunned. Speechless even.
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