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$16.00
$16.00
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1-2 Weeks
ARTIST
DRAKE, BOB
TITLE
The Skull Mailbox
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
RECOMMENDED
CATALOG #
RER CTA9
RER CTA9
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
2/11/2002
"Bob Drake was one half of Indie rock group Hail, and still plays bass with ruthless avant rockers The 5UUS. As a producer, he's worked with everyone from Ice T to Englebert Humperdink. Another card in Drake's hand is the bizarre series of solo albums he's produced in the last few years, with no one else there to curb his wild imagination.
Little Black Train
introduced us to his version of Death-Country, and
Medallion Animal Carpet
followed up with what sounded like a collaboration between Bonnie Prince Billy and Captain Beefheart. And now there's
Skull Mailbox
. With this CD Drake has lost it altogether. Strange little picked guitar pieces are the basis for grotesque songs; a seance goes horribly wrong, headless ghosts fly about, and everyone ends up dead, or locked in the cellar, or both. Interjections by massed choir and orchestra suggest a 19th Century comic opera, and influences are as diverse as the Beatles and Henry Cow. Occasionally drums pop out of the far left of the speaker, vocals far right, grunging noises appear without warning, and everything has a rotting compost quality which makes it sound like it was recorded in a decaying barn -- which indeed it was!"
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