Elf Power - Walking With the Beggar Boys
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Artist: Elf PowerEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-04-06
Music Label: Orange Twin
Soundtracks:
- Never Believe
- Walking With The Beggar Boys
- Drawing Flies
- The Stranger
- Hole In My Shoe
- The Cracks
- Evil Eye
- Don't Let It Be
- Invisible Men
- Empty Pictures
- Big Thing
Music reviews of Walking With the Beggar Boys
Music Review: In it for the Long Haul...
Rating: 5 Stars
"Beggar Boys" has been reviewed by others as a change in direction by Elf Power, but EP fans know that this record exemplifies a long evolution of a veteran band that bridges many genres of rock with albums that blend psych-pop, punk, power pop, and genuinely nice ballads. This album has many incredible pop songs including "Never Believe", "Hole in my Shoe", and "Don't let it be." Not to be missed is the title track, which includes a guest appearance by songwriter/legend Vic Chesnutt. The title and Chesnutt appearance make you think "ballad" but you get a fun, poppy, sleazy little number that makes you want to sing it. "Drawing Flies" is also a Sleazy/70s/glammy rock kind of T-Rex hit...a MUST listen. Many indie rock bands are born, live, and die, but the "Beggar Boys" album made me think of Elf Power as a sophisticated group that has gone beyond existing on imagination and weirdness alone. They continue to learn, experiment, and write excellent songs. They are not growing...but have grown..and they are in it for the long haul.
Description of Walking With the Beggar Boys
Elf Power's latest album, "Walking With the Beggar Boys," marks a definite change in sound and style for Athen, Georgia's underground cult favorites. New members Eric Harris (Olivia Tremor Control) and Craig McQuiston (The Glands) join longtime members Andrew Rieger, Laura Carter and Aaron Wegelin, reinventing the band both musically and lyrically.Musically, the band is all over the map this time, going from sleazy T Rex rockers to psychedelic electronica and blown-out Southern boogie romps ("Never Believe" even features a duet with folk/rock legend Vic Chesnutt). Lyrically, the band foregoes the abstract supernatural imagery of their past releases for a more straightforward lyrical approach, with songs about the effects of advertising in modern America, love songs and even strange, autobiographical stories about meeting up with a gang of beggar children in Warsaw. Elf Power's finest moment is here, so listen up!
With a decade under their belts, the sixth album by the Athens, Georgia-based band Elf Power marks a bit of a change and expansion in their sound. With new members on board (Eric Harris formerly with Olivia Tremor Control, and Craig McQuiston from the Glands), the quintet moves easily from straight ahead, if slightly-fractured rockers, to fine slices of cerebral sonics. The title track, with guest Vic Chesnutt on hand for duet vocals, sounds as rooted in southern Americana as R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion" (a band with whom they've toured, besides sharing a hometown). Elsewhere, "Evil Eye" chugs along like a more rural T. Rex, and "The Cracks" revels in mechanized rhythm tracks and eerily nostalgic synth runs. Throughout, they never lose track of their vital core interplay, celebrating the fine little engine that they are at all times. That the range of Elf Power is so broad comes as little surprise, given their past approaches, as well as their previous affiliations (muti-instrumentalist Laura Carter was a member of Neutral Milk Hotel). --David Greenberger
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