Sebastopol

Jay Farrar - Sebastopol

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Artist: Jay Farrar
Edition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Limited Edition
CD Release Date: 2001-09-25
Music Label: Artemis Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Feel Free - Jay Farrar
  2. Clear Day Thunder - Jay Farrar
  3. Voodoo Candle - Jay Farrar
  4. Barstow - Jay Farrar
  5. Damn Shame - Jay Farrar
  6. Damaged Son - Jay Farrar
  7. Prelude (Make It Alright) - Jay Farrar
  8. Dead Promises - Jay Farrar
  9. Feed Kill Chain - Jay Farrar
  10. Make It Alright
  11. Fortissimo Wah
  12. Drain
  13. Different Eyes
  14. Outside The Door
  15. Equilibrium
  16. Direction
  17. Vitamins

Music reviews of Sebastopol

Music Review: Farrar Meets the Beatles?
Rating: 5 Stars

Nothing in the recorded output of Jay Farrar (Uncle Tupelo through the 3 Sun Volt albums) prepared me for Sebastopol. And reading these reviews, it looks like a lot of people were equally unprepared. One review here calls it an "acoustic" record, while another complains of "shrill electronic sounds"... one seems to only like "Damn Shame" which is very unlike anything else on the record, another thinks "Barstow" is hackwork. Everybody's got two cents and I'm no exception.
I'm writing this in 2005, after "Terroir Blues" and the live records... and at this juncture, I'd say that Sebastopol is one of my favorite records of all time. As far as Farrar's work goes, I think it is second to "Trace" but just barely. What is very cool to me is just how different it is from his other stuff... what interesting stuff Jay can do when he decides to use the studio. Most of his records go for a more raw, "live band" sound which I love. But on Sebastopol, he had the time and money and desire to really use the studio step away from the formula. What he delivers is something that immediately struck me as a record that might have resulted if the Beatles were making Revolver in the 21st century with Neil Young in the band. I've never noticed a trace of Beatles in Jay, but there are moments here that feel like Rubber Soul, Revolver and even things like "It's all too much" from the Yellow Submarine album. And he does it without completely losing touch with the "cosmic American" sensibility that has been his signature.

Almost every song on this disk holds up well. Many are more tuneful and interesting than his average output, and it makes me wish that some of the Terroir Blues cuts had gotten a similar treatment. If you only like the more country edge of Jay, then you might not hang with Sebastopol. If you only like his hardest edged stuff, it might, I suppose, sound too "Pop" ... but if this is Pop, it's what I wish Pop would become. There is nothing "slick" here, nothing silly, nothing gratuitous. I wish the synth-string backing of "damaged Son" was a little less ponderous but other than that, I love it start to finish. And if you get the ThirdshiftGrottoSlack EP and burn your own disk with that following the Sebastopol cuts... (minus the noise tracks which I really don't like) You have a really fine record (and you REALLY hear the Beatles influence on a couple of those). Very listenable, very interesting. Lyrically fine, and well recorded.
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Description of Sebastopol

17 tracks. Slight scuffs on disc will not affect play.

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