"Start Breaking My Heart" by Manitoba
[2001 Leaf (bay16cd)]
This album has it all: warm synthy melodies & clicky rhythms as well as little choral snippets and what sound like real drum samples. Gosh! Horns and bells and jazzy goodness, wild drumming, sounds like the way a real drummer would play. Does Manitoba play the drums?
Has a break in the middle with "Children Play Well Together," a little semi-soundscape with ambient leanings, and "Lemon Yoghourt," which seems like an exercise in how much variation he can get from the same four sounds. And then, on "James' Second Haircut," I swear he uses a cowbell! How cool is that!?
OK, so this is kind of a shitty, lo-quality review, but the album is really good. I wouldn't say it's one of those revolutionary "pushing the envelope" type things, but not that things really are anyway, and you don't always have to be "expanding boundaries." Sometimes you just want good music, and this delivers with a lot of variety. Pick it up! Leaf does it again!
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