Howe Gelb, Hisser - 52m 6s

Tracks & Durations

1. Temptation of Egg	2:27
2. Door Maverick	5:01
3. This Purple Child	5:43
4. Shy of Bumfuck	2:10
5. Propulsion	2:49
6. Catapult	4:06
7. Creeper	3:49
8. Tanks Rolling into Town	1:45
9. Halifax in a Hurricane	2:02
10. Living in a Waterfall	1:35
11. Like a Store Front Display	3:51
12. Explore You	4:58
13. Nico's Lil Opera	1:58
14. Thereminender	2:24
15. Hisser	1:36
16. Intro Speak	0:10
17. Soldier of Forture	3:11
18. Lull	2:02
19. Short Way to End the Day	0:16

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Review

Ambient and lo-fi sounds, tape click and whir, gut-string scrapes, orchestrated loops of train moans, a voice just fallen from bed with terrible nicotine cravings, and the whole mix swallowed up in desert-cave reverb: Giant Sand leader Howe Gelb's solo project has a dark, elliptical charm, floating somewhere between Ennio Morricone and Beck's demo tapes. Gelb doesn't forget--usually--about melodic craft and even shiny lyrical hooks. "Shape of a woman / Temptation of egg," for instance, is inscrutable but memorable. The best material, however, makes the intentionally casual and slapdash moments seem like throwaways: Hisser would have profited from coherent editing and sequencing. Some songs come across as two-minute splices of cinéma vérité, remarkably vivid on "Four Door Maverick," a song about driving through storms and a kind of Southwest homage to Gelb's deceased friend Ranier Patchek. Gelb marries end-of-the-rope associations with brooding guitar and piano lines, and save a few excessively eccentric indulgences--the sophomoric, distorted vocal crisscrossing of the title track and other lapses into studio-effects goofery--the album is eerie and fascinating. --Roy Kasten

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