Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
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Artist: Final FantasyEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-06-13
Music Label: Tomlab
Soundtracks:
- The Arctic Circle
- He Poos Clouds
- This Lamb Sells Condos
- If I Were a Carp
- I'm Afraid of Japan
- Song Song Song
- Many Lives 49 MP
- Do You Love?
- The Pooka Sings
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Music Review: Complex and Stylized, Yet Sloppy, Distant and Uneasy
Rating: 3 Stars
Owen Pallett's resumé is enough to make any spendthrift upper-middle class indie nut's mouth water, his schtick even more so if possible. The second album for the touring member of the Arcade Fire and Hidden Cameras is in fact ten tracks arranged for a classically trained chamber music ensemble. If you're waiting for a charmed chortle at the irony of this album's juvenile title and track names, see: the three hundred other e-zines that got their hands on it. Unfortunately, I can't be so hasty to declare this album unmistakably more cultivated than its title. He Poos Clouds is at best endearingly labyrinthine, a complex and meticulously pieced-together album that's ultimately too tortuous and too ambivalent to really intrigue.
Let me level with you. I really only pretend to view music listening as a principally cerebral affair; I deconstruct the elements of poignancy because for me that makes it feel more miraculous, not less. But the poignancy (or whatever) must exist first for me to feel impelled to explore, and to be sure, I've filed away many an album in the vein of He Poos Clouds simply because I couldn't summon the frosty emotional resilience to slog through it straight through. It's the talking points that the kids love these days more than the albums themselves, like yuppies dropping Ulysses allusions at cocktail parties. So you're probably asking, well Is it a genuinely good album or just a novelty item to chit chat about instead of listening to it? Answer: meh. It's an album of ups and downs if ever there were one, but it's not conventional enough for these characteristics to neatly divide between tracks. Tingling triumphs and twitch-invoking irritations are shaked `n' baked with little moderation within tracks. Again - exactly the right number of distractions and a pal with whom to converse, and this isn't the worst thing an album can be. But damn if Pallett's all-in balls to the wall approach isn't aggravating to any expectation of lucidity or cogency.
My earliest impression was of violin virtuoso Andrew Bird going quietly insane. Though Pallett's voice is plain and a tad precious, it's pushed through so many lunatic zigzags that he hardly ends up human at all, much less relatable. Case in point: hoarse, muffled howls appear sporadically throughout the album, and as regularly as any element in the title track and "Do You Love?" Correspondingly, the musical moods are less convincing when as clumsy a marionette as the omnipresent classical instrumentation is forced through such awkward choreography. Typically, Pallett breaks the number one indie rule of thumb: "thou shalt not let yon moodal ambitions be hindered by a narrow or monochromatic set of instruments or sounds." Bands like Franz Ferdinand don't need anything fancy like cellos or accordions because they aren't going for poignancy anyway. It's safe to say the uneasiest moments on He Poos Clouds are prime examples of stubbornness. To this end, the biggest revelations are consistently when it sounds least like a merely unusual classical piece (the dainty piano pop of "This Lamb Smells Condos" or the muted-plucks-gone-tribal opening "Many Lives 49 MP").
I admit hypocrisy, of course, because I have a nasty habit of getting adamant about shooting down pervasive good reputations, which obviously directly defies my supposed crusade against paltry context. The theoretical bar of He Poos Clouds is almost impossibly high: to create an entire forty minutes as varied in emotional texture as some of the most successful pieces of popular music (say, Wilco's illustrious "I am Trying to Break Your Heart" with its stunning versatility transcending its three chords). Even failing at this succeeds in being the rare noble pursuit, albeit one clouded (and restricted) by its own gimmick and lacking subtlety or refinement in songwriting - if it were a guitar-based album it would probably be pegged "B" prog. And it's only "failure" insofar as we demand the blips of success come together in a humanly blended fashion. I don't deny his ambition to tackle a broad spectrum, but he should do so in a universe guided by rules; ride, if you will, the thermals of commiserable human experience without highbrow flotsam.
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