On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Miles Egan wrote:
quoted 4 lines This is the best Atom Heart record in ages. Mono tm, Lisa Carbon and> This is the best Atom Heart record in ages. Mono tm, Lisa Carbon and
> Senor Coconut have finally imploded into the white hot spot of
> inescapably slippery electro-salsa gravity that we all knew Schimdt
> would eventually invent.
Just wanted to chime in with a different opinion.
I think my reaction to Senor Coconut was at a similar level of enthusiasm
as your reaction to Fonosandwich. Senor Coconut sounds more inspired to
me than anything he's put out in a year or more. It's the sound of the
joy and bewilderment of being immersed in a new culture. For long
stretches I'd stop thinking how it was done and just enjoy it -- I get the
same inner smile as when I first heard "The Race" or "Koladi Ola" by
Yello. And that's a point where his music hasn't taken me for some time.
Fonosandwich has some fine moments (c.u.e. mentioned track #4), but on the
whole it made me think of Machine Paisley -- half excellent, half noodly
hodgepodge seasoned with a bit of salsa. But there is a certain
pop-art/trash-art thing happening here that's starting to come through
more clearly -- enough to excuse and explain a vocal non-hook like "the
real color of vitamin C is probably brown".
Speaking of which, anyone else think track one ("...vitamin C...") sounds
like an adaptation of "The Future" by Prince, for the long-promised-but-
unreleased album of cover versions?
--Mark