Smog - Doctor Came at Dawn
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Artist: SmogEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-09-10
Music Label: Drag City
Soundtracks:
- You Moved In
- Somewhere in the Night
- Lize
- Spread Your Bloody Wings
- Carmelite Light
- Everything You Touch Becomes a Crutch
- All Your Women Things
- Whistling Teapot (Rag)
- Four Hearts in a Can
- Hangman Blues
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Free Music Review: Smog's Sad Epic
Hit: 5 Stars
Back in the day when Smog gathered clutter and clash in JULIUS CAESAR, not only would I never suspect the beauty and sound of DOCTOR CAME AT DAWN, but even when first listening to it, did I ever suspect that this would wind up one of my favorites of all time. One of the saddest epics, if not THE, of the 90s, DOCTOR walks around thoroughly modern scenes of loss and desolation. Anyone who has ever experienced the mating ritual of the 90s, you get together and because you both can't make rent on a nice place alone, you shack up, and not long after, it all falls apart. You will find a friend in this album. Starting with this theme in the opening track, YOU MOVED IN, Smog looks at the world through different pairs of the saddest eyes but never wallows in the dirt. I don't think Smog has done anything close to this since. Others disagree and wave off this album as too depressing, more into the last couple of records (the mediocre RED APPLE FALLS and KNOCK KNOCK) but to me, those albums reminds me of many singer/songwriters coming out in the late 60s and 70s. Once you get into the mid-70s, these singers who had such great songs and simple productions on their early albums, start to try and do different things with each song on their later records and forget that they are making an album (ALBUM--like collection). That lap steel on the recent ventures, for instance, what is that? Cash in on the Palace/alterna-country thang? DOCTOR is simply perfect and one of the best that the 90s had to offer--saying alot as it was a great decade for music--as usual. Moments created in SPREAD YOUR BLOODY WINGS and CARMELITE LIGHT are so unique sound and lyric-wise. SPREAD YOUR BLOODY WINGS is like a surrealist poem! And I'm not saying that lightly! To sum it up, Smog captures the stupidity and sadness of 20-something youth in the 90s.
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Nothing in Smog's previous output suggests the austere beauty presented here. Previously, Bill Callahan (who for all intents and purposes is Smog) recorded half-finished vignettes that were held down by an excess of low-fi studio mud. Here, he slows everything down to a trickle (except "Somewhere in the Night" which positively rollicks along by comparison) and the leaky faucet of this doom seems to be unfixable. The deadpan basso-profundo delivery gets deeper over time as the nails of failure from each relationship are hammered in. The opener is "You Moved In" and rests as a bad omen. By the time of "All Your Women Things," Callahan is constructing a dolly from his ex-girlfriend's accouterments. Spooky. --Rob O'ConnorAlternative Rock Music CDs
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