Blonde Redhead - Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
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Artist: Blonde RedheadEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-06-06
Music Label: Touch & Go Records
Soundtracks:
- Equally Damaged
- In Particular
- Melody Of Certain Three
- Hated Because Of Great Qualities
- Loved Despite Of Great Faults
- Ballad Of Lemons
- This Is Not
- A Cure
- For The Damaged
- Mother
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Free Music Review: Blonde Redhead flaunt their melodic side
Hit: 5 Stars
The first thing you will notice about the latest offering from Blonde Redhead is the way the album is set up--it looks suspiciously like a concept album. Just put together the song titles from tracks seven through ten, and you have the complete (if somewhat cryptic) sentence, "This is not a cure for the damaged mother." You will also notice how several song titles involve word plays on the album title (or is it vice-versa?). But if it is a concept album, what is the concept? Though several of the songs are wistful or lamenting commentaries on relationships (minus the cliches you'd expect to find on albums by less-talented writers), there is still enough uncertainty of lyrical meaning (think Tori Amos without the fairy-princess aspect, and a more limited grasp of the English language) to come to a distict conclusion. Perhaps the concept was simply to write an album full of beautiful, haunting melodies, which brings us to the second thing you'll notice. Every album Blonde Redhead has put out up to this point combined their penchant for complex melodies--derived from retro French pop and romantic composers along the lines of Chopin--with a noisier, more sinister side. (This had led to numerous Sonic Youth comparisons, mostly by people who are obviously not terribly familiar with either of these two groups' material). These albums were beautiful in their lack of restraint, the wild, moaning guitars searching for and finding beautiful melodies in the oddest of places. On this new album, Blonde Redhead all but eliminate the noise aspect of their music, creating dark and beautiful soundscapes dominated more by forboding synthesizers and pianos than feedback and shrieking vocals (the two exceptions are the cheery, synth pop "This is Not," and the histrionic "Mother"). That's not to say that the melodies are any less complicated--if anything, they are *more* complicated. Every note, every electronic bleep is planned out, sounding almost as if there were a musical score and a conductor present at the recording session. And the relative lack of noise (relative being the operative term when considering songs such as "Melody of Certain Three" and "A Cure"), does not make the album sound more generic in it's pop-iness. Instead, it opens up the music so that the listener can really appreciate what a quirky and geniously innovative band they are listening to.
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New York City's Blonde Redhead developed a reputation as Sonic Youth imitators, because their sound originally depended on the same discordant guitar points and sexless machinelike rhythms. But over the course of five albums, they've grown out of that heady shadow. Incorporating sinister keyboards, conventional melodic guitar lines, and a stronger grasp of songwriting ("Melody of Certain Three," among others, is hummable), Blonde Redhead is emerging from the underground rock world with a sound that mixes dissonant alt-rock ("For the Damaged") with space-age pop grace ("Ballad of Lemons") and orchestral ambitions ("Loved Despite Great Faults"). Mixed louder than the usual indie release, the atmospheric lead vocals of Kazu Makino bring the imagistic lyrics to the fore. "Hated Because of Great Qualities" builds into a teetering seesaw of notes while Makino admits, "It never meant a thing. So be it," with Godardian detachment. Definitely one of the more noteworthy bands that have slowly been growing into a diverse and formidable act. --Rob O'ConnorAlternative Rock Music CDs
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