hayley
10-04-2006, 04:17 PM
I think it's a little silly to have separate threads for every little blurb on the album. If there's already been a thread for media reviews, sorry!
There's a great post on Stereogum about the album. I'll let him talk, since I still have pretty much nothing nice to say-
http://www.stereogum.com/archives/003593.html
Excerpt:
<i>But listening to Under The Skin (which we've done 20+ times in the last week) it's like he never left. Frenetic octave-hopping fingerpicking abounds, as does LB's penchant for eschewing any traditional percussion. This time, however, lame drum machines have been replaced by the more organic tones of Lindsey tapping on the furniture of hotel rooms in which the album was recorded. If this album came from a new artist -- maybe a Ray LaMontagne, as opposed to the mastermind of Rumours -- we think it might find love among the indie kids (Buckingham is to guitar what Joanna Newsom is to harp). But this won't be climbing up the elbo.ws charts, and neither we nor his label expect it to. Which is why there was no new media campaign for the CD. Or maybe they're just clueless how great this album is.</i>
There's a great post on Stereogum about the album. I'll let him talk, since I still have pretty much nothing nice to say-
http://www.stereogum.com/archives/003593.html
Excerpt:
<i>But listening to Under The Skin (which we've done 20+ times in the last week) it's like he never left. Frenetic octave-hopping fingerpicking abounds, as does LB's penchant for eschewing any traditional percussion. This time, however, lame drum machines have been replaced by the more organic tones of Lindsey tapping on the furniture of hotel rooms in which the album was recorded. If this album came from a new artist -- maybe a Ray LaMontagne, as opposed to the mastermind of Rumours -- we think it might find love among the indie kids (Buckingham is to guitar what Joanna Newsom is to harp). But this won't be climbing up the elbo.ws charts, and neither we nor his label expect it to. Which is why there was no new media campaign for the CD. Or maybe they're just clueless how great this album is.</i>