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Soul Coughing, Irresistible Bliss
Audio CD
Disk ID: 1462176
Disk length: 42m 26s (12 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 1996
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. Super Bon Bon | 3:31 |
| 2. Soft Serve | 3:12 |
| 3. White Girl | 2:37 |
| 4. Soundtrack To Mary | 3:06 |
| 5. Lazybones | 4:48 |
| 6. 4 Out Of 5 | 3:11 |
| 7. Paint | 2:55 |
| 8. Disseminated | 2:41 |
| 9. Collapse | 3:06 |
| 10. Sleepless | 4:50 |
| 11. The Idiot Kings | 3:57 |
| 12. How Many Cans? | 4:24 |
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Review
For a group that exudes so much intelligence and sophistication, Soul Coughing make incredibly intuitive music. The New York foursome gets pinned for its downtown neo-beat poetry shtick, but even M. Doughty, the group's acid-tongued lyricist, will tell you it's really all about the vibe, not the verse: the true leaders are the guys bringing up the rear. Sebastian Steinberg's loping upright bass and Yuval Gabay's precision drums, which form a live hip-hop/jazz-rock base, make Soul Coughing's second album, Irresistible Bliss, even sharper and more rhythmically confident than their 1994 debut, Ruby Vroom. Inverting George Clinton's maxim, Soul Coughing's operating principle seems to be "Free your ass and your mind will follow." As on Ruby Vroom, Doughty's vocals (increasingly dynamic) and Mark De Gli Antoni's keyboard sampler (increasingly focused) form the icing on Irresistible Bliss's groove-filled cake. But like the bass and drums, the voice and sampler work on a subconscious level. Neither conveys concrete meaning so much as it regurgitates data. Like a television set that plays down the hall while you drift off to sleep, Soul Coughing transmit repeated and recontextualized cliches as if they were information-age mantras, and collide those with door squeaks, elephant sounds, and Raymond Scott cartoon music to form a blanket of pop-cultural white noise. If Irresistible Bliss is less referentially hip-hop and (therefore) more song-oriented than the previous album, it's just as enthusiastically geometric--not to mention funky. Or, to transpose Clinton again: Who says a rock band can't play funk?--Roni Sarig
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Tracks: 12, Disk length: 42m 26s
Tracks: 12, Disk length: 42m 26s
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