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01. GREAT VALLEY - Dream Phone
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02. GREAT VALLEY - It's for You
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03. GREAT VALLEY - Phantom Flight
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04. GREAT VALLEY - Sandra's Rage
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05. GREAT VALLEY - Cranberry Lake
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06. GREAT VALLEY - Aliens in My House
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07. GREAT VALLEY - Sportsman's Lounge
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08. GREAT VALLEY - Bleacher Honey
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09. GREAT VALLEY - Yellow-Purple Moon
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10. GREAT VALLEY - Angry Eyes
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11. GREAT VALLEY - Doesn't Space Look Nice
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12. GREAT VALLEY - A Dog, A Star, A Dinner
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ARTIST
GREAT VALLEY
TITLE
Continental Lunch
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
FEEDING TUBE RECORDS
CATALOG #
FTR 112LP
FTR 112LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
7/23/2013
The third album by Brattleboro's
Great Valley
, who walk as equals amongst the woggly dream-pop giants from the charted region of the upper Connecticut River Valley. Like their brethren,
Happy Jawbone
(a member of whom surfaces hereon), Great Valley concoct a strange type of pop music, with certain similarities to musicians as disparate as California's
Van Dyke Parks
and Pennsylvania's
Strapping Fieldhands
, without yielding a single woof of their Brattleborian distinction.
Blanche Blanche Blanche
is also represented here by
Zach Phillips
, but Great Valley's take on the Southern Vermont ethos remains unique. Much of the sound on
Continental Lunch
has a pointedly ruralist base. Individual notes could be credited to
ZZ Top
or even members of the Capricorn Records cabal, yet when you engage with the entirety of their sound there is little chance of confusing them with anyone else. Their craft in creating a murky, muddled wall of sonic puh is strange, meaning it's far from usual. Instrumental passages have the crudeness of a carnival band, but these link with vocals bearing the lush potency on any mock-
Beach Boys
hybrid you could name (even the
Rip Chords
), albeit with a post-punk compositional modernity that buggers easy comparison. Every song on the album here shifts mood and mode as handily as
Tura Santana
shifted her hips in
Faster Pussycat
. There are odd blips of neo-electronic pop, which're immediately subverted by drunk sailor vocals. There are pieces of
Matt Valentine
/
Neil Young
vocalese that implode of their own volition in a shower of warm, swallowed sputum. There're blurts of patented 'Boro ganged chorus parts that refuse to stop acting drunk. If this is not one of the most low-keyed balloons of berserk psych blow-uppery, you should give me a list of other contenders. Because you are wrong. The more you listen, the wronger
Continental Lunch
is. What could be a higher compliment? Edition of 300.
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