Noble Creatures

The Gourds - Noble Creatures

Noble Creatures
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Artist: The Gourds
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-07-10
Music Label: Yep Roc Records
Soundtracks:
  1. How Will You Shine?
  2. Kicks In the Sun
  3. Promenade
  4. A Few Extra Kilos
  5. Last Letter
  6. The Gyroscopic
  7. Moon Gone Down
  8. Red Letter Day
  9. Out On the Vine
  10. Cranky Mulatto
  11. Steeple Full Of Shadows
  12. All In the Pack
  13. Flavor On the Tongue
  14. Dr. Spivey

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Free Music Review: Why aren't the Gourds considered national treasures?
Hit: 5 Stars

I consider The Gourds to be one of the all-time greatest bands, right up there with The Beatles. Am I getting carried away? Hardly. Nine albums in, this Austin band continues to write impossibly memorable songs, and not just a few here and there, but whole albums worth. Multiple ridiculously talented song writers in one band who can't seem to burn out. The songs are hilarious, unbearably heart breaking, profound, and ludicrous. And the musicianship is astronomical. To see them live is transcendent, but in the funnest possible sense.
Noble Creatures is a beautiful record. The lyrics are potent, the music delicious, and the singing--as always--top notch. Buy it now. Then work backwards in their catalog until you own all nine, as I do. You're welcome.

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Three tracks into Noble Creatures, you hit the album's heart. The opening notes of "Promenade" faintly recall the Band's non-pareil classic, "The Weight," but it's Kevin Russell's high lonesome vocal quaver and Max Johnston's long-toned, austere fiddle lines that make "Promenade" possibly the most beautiful song of this century's first decade. The Gourds, perennially unpredictable, include several gorgeous, slower tunes here, from the plaintive "Steeple Full of Swallows" to the sashaying "Moon Gone Down," and the aching "Last Letters." But these Texans are old-school itinerants, invoking wide-prarie country and Cajun and sloppy bar-room cow punk in equal measures--witness the Tom Waits-tinged "Dr. Spivey" for one growly-blues, off-center example. Jimmy Smith's "A Few Extra Kilos" plays on the boozy, aging-body refrain of "spillage in the morning and again in the night," a mid-tempo paean to the torso expanding beyond its younger self. For the high-stepping, up-kicking Cajun touches, Smith steps back up to the mic for "All in the Pack" and Russell throws in the potentially politically incorrect "Cranky Mulatto," all of which is grand. Make no mistake, however: "Promenade" alone is worth the cost of admission. Treat yourself. --Andrew Bartlett

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