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The Trials of Van Occupanther
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Track Listing
- Roscoe
- Bandits
- Head Home
- Van Occupanther
- Young Bride
- Branches
- In This Camp
- We Gathered In Spring
- It Covers The Hillsides
- Chasing After Deer
- You Never Arrived
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1746 in Music
- Released on: 2006-06-05
- Number of discs: 1
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.co.uk Review
Midlake are a relatively small indie band, so the level of ambition they display on The Trials of Van Occupanther is to be commended. From the opening track, "Roscoe", with it's laconic lyrics and slowly building chorus, they manage to recreate perfectly the sound of 1980s Fleetwood Mac, a band not known for thinking small. And though the rest of the album doesn't quite reach the heady heights of this opener, it's not for a lack of trying (particularly on "Head Home"). The remainder of The Trials of Van Occupanther is considerably more downbeat, with distant flutes complementing the vocal harmonies of songs like "Bandits" and "Branches". Where Midlake particularly excel, though, is when, like Grandaddy before them, they draw their inspiration from the classic rock that they seem to love so much, adapting and modernising it. So in addition to the anthemic "Roscoe", they evoke the Gram Parsons-era Byrds or even The Band on "Van Occupanther" and the road-ready "It Covers the Hillsides". The Trials of Van Occupanther is an album that's steeped in musical history, yet possessing an identity all it's own. --Ted Kord
Customer Reviews
Mellow magic.......
Bought from my local independent shop two weeks ago and I must admit I really didn't like it.....nothing stood out, seemed boring.....but after 10 plays it becomes a pastoral, yearning, summer days epic..... Bit Flaming Lips, bit Grandaddy, bit Wilco, bit Fleetwood Mac.....
Tremendous......but dont play it to your friends expecting them to like it...
Genius
It's been a while since I've encountered an album that I can't stop playing. This is one of them. It is a work of brilliant musicianship and at the same time a concept album that harks back to 1891 pastoral America, days of rabbits feet and leaky roofs before HTML replaced harvesting. Astonishing!
Just like boring old Travis
Yeah this is just like the boring old Travis, and only gets one star as we're in the 21st century, and Ive heard all this in the last century. They seem like nice fellas, but so did Teddy Ruxpin.
