DISCOGRAPHY
All these Slippery Things (2010)
The main inspirations behind "All these Slippery Things" are Paul Thomas Anderson's "Magnolia" and Neutral Milk Hotel's "In the Aeroplane over the Sea". The album was very much constructed as an album and, as such, has a clear beginning for Track 1 and a clear ending for Track 13, but after that it is confusing as to when each track begins and ends. There are repeated motifs (from melodies to lyrics), sky imagery (Lightning, Clouds, etc.), blues and reds and the phrase “All these Slippery Things” occurs in every song with lyrics. The songs without lyrics explore different variations of a single melody line that moves the album along according to the different emotional peaks that occur.
The album resembles a distorted love child of Modest Mouse, Beirut, Sufjan Stevens, Bright Eyes and the Arcade Fire, which in a way sounds a lot like an alternate universe Neutral Milk Hotel.
All these Slippery Things:
1. The First Waltz
2. All these Birds in my Hair
3. The Snapping Sound
4. The Slippery Waltz
5. On Feathers & Arrows (on Burnt Pine)
6. Burning Red (The Fa Fa Fa Song)
7. In the Lightning it is Written
8. The Rollicking Waltz
9. Chocolate Lemonade
10. The Last Waltz
11. I Stayed up all Week
12. The Sky Seemed So Red Today
13. We are All in the Clouds
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conversationmusic (2007)
Recorded with a base of acoustic guitar and harmonica, the debut self-recorded album of il gato, "conversationmusic", has an undercurrent of menace: the fuzz of walkie-talkies, the lonely blare of a trumpet, the drone of the harmonica, the ominous sound of a synth, the clicks and hums of a lo-fi record, the struggle to stay in tune. Sounds from the furthest corners of the room, the fuzz of a radio station hoping to detain and sabotage the song, only to always be one step behind. “Subversive folk” is what I call it.
Falling somewhere between the patience of Bruce Springsteen’s “Nebraska”, the stark emotion of Songs:Ohia, and the fragility of Bright Eyes more introspective moments, the album trods on country-blues, folk and Americana.
conversationmusic:
1. Molly n' Stew
2. Longing Love Lounge
3. Sometimes I Laugh to Cry
4. A Lover's Duel
5. Lower down than Before
6. Greens and Cornbread
7. I Stayed up all Week
8. Bright, Bright, Bright Yellow
9. The Spiral Song
10. The Taste
11. Wow (or Drunk in a bar at 6:30 on a Tuesday)
13. Chocolate Lemonade
MISCELLANEOUS
Blue Skies - DEMO