04/26/12: Reaching Quiet - In The Shadow of The Living Room (2002)

04/26/12: Reaching Quiet - In The Shadow of The Living Room (2002)

1. Mother You're Long Gone
2. She Ain't Gonna Call You Back (Part 1)
3. Pier 39
4. Your Fish
5. Cabin Pressure
6. Self Portrait Hand Puppet
7. The Fly
8. The Moth
9. On Gummy Worms on Dental Floss
10. Madame Rennevfski
11. Salad Days
12. Split Screen
13. Housewife
14. Her Little Office Watch
15. Indecent Proposal
16. The Vowels
17. The Crush
18. Slow Polaroid
19. She Ain't Gonna Call You Back (Part 2)
20. Me and the Pea Coat
21. Out of Live Wires and Twisties
22. Broken Crow
23. Dead Man's Robin
24. Jesse James' Thesaurusical Advice
25. Lisa Carmichael (Alan Keyes)
26. My Prayer Rug
27. I Beer
28. You Choke
29. The Comfy Chair
30. General Disturbance

     This album is a random buy from quite awhile back that I only purchased because Why? was listed as a contributor. I wish I would have read up on it much sooner. Its actually a collaboration between Why? and Odd Nosdam; my favorite two people from the Anticon label. It is a precursor to Anticon and to their experimental hip-hop group Clouddead. It is a really strange and experimental album itself but it still demonstrates snippets of why I love these guys in a fragmented patchwork fashion. If anything, I may prefer it to Clouddead in a lot of ways just because of the absence of DoseOne. They are mostly incredibly short tracks but it has a sound collage feel that really shows why I like Odd Nosdams production so much. There are a lot of instrumental tracks, but when Why? comes in and sing/raps it leads to some of the coolest moments on this album. He raps well, and suddenly sings like a Beach Boy and continues to be one of my favorites, even from this obscure album from years before I even knew he existed. This album is atmospheric, and poppy, and droning, and at times goofy as hell, but it is a super interesting and entertaining listen that shows some of my favorites at their earliest. (117)