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"Who's Got Trouble"- Shivaree

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:15 / 16.04.05

The first time I heard of this band was on the Kill Bill 2 soundtrack- the song "Goodnight Moon" really got me; sounded like a band who'd be playing in a Lynch movie.
Then I bought the new album, "Who's Got Trouble"- took me a couple of listens, the first having seemed a little disappointing until I got to-
-and this is the really GOOD bit-
-their cover of Eno's "The Fat Lady Of Limbourg".
After that, they've grown on me like some beautiful kind of fungus... I've been listening to this album constantly the last couple of days (well, except when Dr Who was on, obviously) and I love it. It makes me cry each time- but at a different part each time.

Does anyone know anything about them? I've currently got their first album "I Ought To Give You A Shot In The Head For Making Me Live In This Place" on order from Amazon...

...but they TOTALLY still sound like they should be scoring a Lynch movie. Drowsy, late-night music. For whisky and cigarettes. Put 'em on a bill with Tom Waits and the Tindersticks, hope Nick Cave turns up for a guest appearance, and you've got my perfect gig, right there.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

12:26 / 27.04.05

No takers? Oh well.
Anyway, my copy of "I Oughtta Give You A Shot In The Head..." just turned up in the post, and it's ace. Like the later album musically and thematically, but with more weird electronics on it. Absolutely fucking beautiful.

Brigade du jour

00:20 / 29.04.05

I just read an article on this lot in ... oh, one of the weekend supplements. On the strengths of both that and what you just said, can I borrow it please?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

16:20 / 29.04.05

I'll burn you a copy, Mr Brigade.

Brigade du jour

16:55 / 29.04.05

You're a dear.

20:38 / 29.04.05

Ok I'll bite, have heard nothing about Shivaree but anything which holds Twin Peaks Sound Tracking Lynch and Dwarves in a descriptive sentence about them are at least intriguing.
Liking also the Nick Cave namecheck, what are the albums like lyrically as a whole, sparse but effective?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

19:41 / 24.10.05

Just got the album I didn't even know existed- Rough Dreams, the second one, which was apparently only released in the UK (which, paradoxically enough, meant I didn't find it while looking on their website).

Much poppier than either of the others... more electronica by far. Lovely, though a couple of tracks really didn't grab me AT ALL the first time ("After The Prince And The Showgirl", for example, I fucking HATED first time... now I can't get rid of it, internal music-wise)... some beautiful stuff on there. And Thundercats- totally unlike any of their other stuff (sounds a bit Garbage-y) but ace. Largely becasue it namechecks the Thundercats, but good anyway.

Haven't you got it yet? I'm gonna, like I did with Firewater, keep mentioning this band until people like them. That's the deal.

(They're not as good as Firewater though. Nearly... but not quite.)

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

19:43 / 24.10.05

Ooh... probably too late to answer ds's question, but lyrically... broken hearts, full ashtrays, empty bottles of whisky. Kung-fu films and hangovers. Wifebeaters shot dead.

The Return Of Rothkoid

02:54 / 25.10.05

I didn't mind the first album, but didn't seem particularly driven to seek out any others. Maybe I should. They can come across as very... "WE're TryINg TO be WEIRD!@" a bit, sometimes.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

03:02 / 25.10.05

The last album's much less like that- they seem to have settled into a style that works for them. It's less eclectic, sure, but it kind of... works.