wish i was single again

Express Rising:

Keys To Be

Department of Eagles:

Forty Dollar Rug
Origin of Love
from The Whitey on the Moon UK LP (Plain, 2003)

Guilty realness in a second, but the Dept of Eagles album has pretty much been in constant rotation since i picked it up. It came out in 03 andi've known about it since then, but being the lazy ass that i am only recently picked up a used copy. (goddamn i want some ice cream right now). I stuck the Express Rising track on here cause it fits the mood and i like pianos (find another explanation for me listening to so much coldplay...please).

Dept of Eagles aint lazy, but their stuff has that (for lack of better comparison) Madlibby/DOOM off handedness that gets translated to some kind of sincerity that is absent in basically everything right now. Yeah, "forty dollar rug" isnt exactly an heartfelt ode to nana, but it is fun and fun is powerful. example? the line: "i live in a flat with three blokes." that kind of stuff speaks to me. Why? Cause i live in a house with 2 blokes (up until two months ago it was three, but one quit). Regardless of my home's population, the track is legit. The 'rap' part sounds like a P.U.T.S. concoction, then they take it into the garage/basement/attik/cave and turn it out.
Origin of Love might suffer from cliche titleitis, but the beat is so sick that can be forgiven. Things in reverse are kinda played, but switching drums to double time and throwing in a random bass blast? 50 euros. Some of the singy-songs are a bit to folkemomallpunkO.C. in their delivery (example: 'family romance'...save for the sesame street->fantasy bridge) but they work in the album

Express Rising is Dante, right? His book on 45s will undoubtedly be not a little frightening in its detail and breadth. The Express Rising album kinda soured a lot of other down tempo releases for me cause it, more often than not, actually sounded organic...or at least good dusty. Sure, RJD2 knows his tonics and if shit is in key or not or if beyonce's 7ths are flat (honestly, who cares?): some of it sounds too on. "Keys to Be" is my ultimate pissed off piano song with perfect drum programming (by the way, i received 8 emails while writing this shit...goddamn editorial positions). It starts moody, then ends hopeless. kinda. When i was all on the low part of the bipolar swing (DMX, holla!) I would go walk around the theological union and listen to this and brood. I'd come back freezing my ass off and my roommate would laugh.