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:: Release Info:
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:: Artist......> Astronautalis
:: Title.......> You and Yer Good Ideas
:: Label.......> Fighting Records
:: Genre.......> Crossover
:: Rip.Date....> 09.06.2005
:: Street.Date.> 00.00.0000
:: Source......> CDDA
:: Quality.....> VBRkbps - Full Stereo
:: Play Time...> 39:37 min
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:: Track Listing:
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:: 01. Gaston Ave
:: 02. Tightrope
:: 03. Oceanwalk
:: 04. Hurricane Isabel
:: 05. Somethin' for the Kids
:: 06. I'm Never Right (Feat. Isaiah)
:: 07. People Often Tell Me I'm Good at What I Do
:: 08. Baggage Claim
:: 09. Fax Machine
:: 10. Fourth of July (Feat. Radicalface)
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:: Release Notes:
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:: Ostensibly a hip-hop album, You and Yer Good Ideas does not
:: participate in a genre so much as it altogether defies it.
:: It's a reminder of just how limited the genre's usefulness is
:: as a frame for discussing an album; in failing to fit into a
:: genre or a subgenre or a genre-bending genre, it asks us not
:: to view style as anything more than a starting point from
:: which an artist provides context for his or her voice. You
:: and Yer Good Ideas isn't a reinterpretation of an established
:: form, nor is it an appropriation of numerous forms that
:: serves to comment on the relationship between forms. It's
:: more of an open dialogue whose semantic and spiritual
:: qualities find antecedents in other styles and voices, but
:: ultimately beg to be known and explored purely on their own
:: terms. In other words, substance supercedes style.
::
:: Astronautalis's most obvious kinship is with Clouddead's Why.
:: Like Why, Astronautalis is a one man pop music-making
:: machine, cobbling together bits and pieces of what he loves
:: in both the mainstream and the underground, as well as the
:: old and the new. You and Your Good Ideas also plays out quite
:: a bit like Why's Sand Dollar EP -- both records branch out
:: from a hip-hop foundation to incorporate radio-friendly rock,
:: cuddly electronica and rap/sing/speak vocals that bridge all
:: of their influences. Astronautalis distinguishes himself
:: enough, though, that there will be no mistaking this
:: introverted, road-worn Texan for Anticon's newest and best OC
:: airplay hopeful.
::
:: There's one catch to all of Astronautalis's originality and
:: intelligence: none of his songs are really that great.
:: However, they don't fail for the reasons you might expect an
:: artist doing what he's doing to struggle. You and Yer Good
:: Ideas doesn't blend its ideas clumsily, or come off as petty
:: posturing; its problems lie more in its unwillingness to
:: speak loudly. Everything Astronautalis steps out and says --
:: every particularly funky beat he samples, every front porch
:: yarn he spins, every keyboard he fucks around with --
:: resonates, but he stifles his voice far too often, hiding in
:: the shadows of cookie-cutter laptop shimmer and barely
:: audible monotone vocals. There's very little to remember most
:: of the album by, but the scattered bright spots keep it from
:: being completely devoid of flavor. The work doesn't suffer
:: for lack of personality, but rather for lack of charisma.
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:: Why give so much credit, then, to such a timid recording? The
:: answer lies in the foundation that Astronautalis sets, which
:: is wise beyond the project's experience (this being his debut
:: album), especially given the audience he's playing to (namely
:: Warped Tour attendees and suburbanite backpackers). You and
:: Yer Good Ideas legitimately rejects all conceivable molds
:: rather than pretending to. Instead of clamoring for an
:: identity, Astronautalis explores and expresses his own
:: personality.
::
:: Http://www.fightingrecords.com
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:: Buy it if you like it.
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