Pixel Revolt

John Vanderslice - Pixel Revolt

Pixel Revolt
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Artist: John Vanderslice
Edition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2005-08-23
Music Label: Barsuk
Soundtracks:
  1. Letter to the East Coast
  2. Plymouth Rock
  3. Exodus Damage
  4. Peacocks in the Video Rain
  5. Trance Manual
  6. New Zealand Pines
  7. Radiant with Terror
  8. Continuation
  9. Dear Sarah Shu
  10. Farewell Transmission
  11. Angela
  12. Dead Slate Pacific
  13. Golden Gate
  14. CRC 7173, Affectionately

Music reviews of Pixel Revolt

Music Review: Vanderslice, you heard him..I suggest you get some!
Rating: 5 Stars

And here I thought the storytelling/singer/songwriter was dead. Pixel Revolt really turned me on to Vanderslice. It made me want to explore his other work. It is evident from Pixel Revolt that Vanderslice can shape a story and make it beautiful in its telling. I am neglecting to explain how his songs are part internal conversations within one's self and part reminiscent of feelings which pass through us daily. In other words he has documented and articulated these emotions that are less like events but more so like a sepia tone photograph. The songs are like people watching in a well-written book.

Description of Pixel Revolt

Vanderslice's fifth solo album contains 14 tracks built on short stories efficient and evocative enough to be reminiscent of top-tier fiction writers, and sonically gorgeous enough that the casual fan can go several listens without noticing the lyrics. In addition to several delicate, dead-on autobiographical songs,"Pixel Revolt" is full of John's trademark fictional narrators: a soldier in "Plymouth Rock" who develops second thoughts about the liberation as he lies bleeding; the anti-government militant with shaken conviction and waning commitment in "Exodus Damage"; a sinister stalker or harmless admirer of a pop singer in "Peacocks In The Video Rain"; a western journalist on a conflicted visit to an Iraqi prostitute in "Trance Manual"; the possibly paranoid-schizophrenic, possibly razor-sharp cop of "Continuation", and others.
This is the fifth album in as many years from John Vanderslice. He continues to use the studio as a workshop and laboratory, allowing songs to flourish as the arrangements blossom. This time out kindred spirit John Darnielle assisted, as editor, co-writer and all around sympathetic aesthetic collaborator (Vanderslice also produced his last two Mountain Goats albums). Brilliantly arranged and played, the fourteen songs are filled with utterly mesmerizing moments, from the haunting chorus on "Plymouth Rock" to the strutting piano figure of "Peacocks in the Video Rain." Vanderslice knows the power of words, with his lyrics mixing narrative certainty with poetic mystery. His melodies can, by turns, underscore the emotional character of the words, and play off of them, expanding the magical possibilities exponentially. --David Greenberger

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