Cordelia's Dad, What It Is - 50m 6s

Tracks & Durations

1. Camille's Not Afraid of the Barn	2:58
2. Upswing	3:32
3. Inhaler	4:09
4. Eyelovemusic	2:48
5. Five Way Flashlight	3:28
6. Little Speckled Egg	2:55
7. Despair	1:25
8. Hammer	3:48
9. Rock Me (To Sleep)	5:57
10. Brother Judson	5:17
11. Dark and Rolling Eye	3:48
12. Leave Your Light On	3:44
13. Song of the Heads	4:24
14. Brethren Sing	1:43

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Review

The story, as many know, goes something like this: in the late 1980s, in western Massachusetts, a couple of guys got together and set about turning the folk music world on its ear with rocked-out, punked-out versions of traditional songs. Lead singer and guitarist Tim Eriksen scoured the barn sales and thrift stores, digging up old songs to toss into Cordelia's Dad's peculiar crucible. Over time, the band's approach became more traditional, until, by the mid-1990s, they were a strictly acoustic group, with a more purist interpretation. Or were they? The truth is that Cordelia's Dad's rock leanings never disappeared, they just went into hibernation, emerging occasionally on an extra electric track on an album or a compilation appearance. On What It Is, the band's rock roots are wide awake for a tasty indie-punk-folk collection. And the beauty of it is, when listening to these songs--many of them original--you realize that this band, with its simultaneously heartfelt and ironic approach, is the same whether the instruments are plugged in or not. This album provides a new aural perspective on Cordelia's Dad while also providing enough familiar benchmarks to keep the listener from being cast adrift. --Genevieve WilliamsMasterful chameleon rockers Cordelia's Dad are back with a stunning collection of 14 rock songs on What It Is. It's a voltage-enhanced thing that was exercised under Steve Albini's (Nirvana, The Jesus Lizard) tutelage in 1997 and Mark Alan Miller's (Dinosaur Jr., Pernice Brothers) engineering hand in 1999. There are collaborations with traditional fiddler Laura Risk (Greenfire), experimental trombonist Mike Heffley (Anthony Braxton) and even some overtone singing. From pure unaccompanied harmonies to hellish feedback, from the dreadfully bleak to the irrepressibly sunny, What it is demands that all who have up to now followed Cordelia's Dad's "folk" career scrub up a fresh ear. This is the most American of musics. Let it blast all your folkie pre-conceptions to rubble.

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