The Felice Brothers - Yonder Is The Clock reviews
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| Avclub |
 It says a lot about these desperate times that a band that quotes Mark Twain and makes records in converted chicken coops feels very much of the moment. Such is the case with upstate New York folkies The Felice Brothers, who survey a nation trapped between poverty and prosperity (in both the past and the present) on the terrific Yonder Is The Clock. “Sometimes the things you do, they come back at you,” sighs turpentine-swilling singer Ian Felice on the war-torn ballad “All When We Were Young”—and isn’t that something we’ve all learned the hard way lately? The burden of survival is living to regret everything you’ve had to do in order to endure, and it weighs heavily on the people who populate Yonder Is The Clock, whether it’s the “Boy From Lawrence County” selling out his friend for a job, or the lovelorn loser singing to a woman he can’t provide for in “Katie Dear.” These are all-American songs of devastation and alienation; they’re also loads of fun and damn hilarious much of the time. Maybe reliving the Great Depression won’t be so bad after all....full text |
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| Boston |
| The new Felice Brothers record has two great songs with the word "chicken" in the title - one of several oddball delights on an album that finds the Catskill Mountains group sounding ever more in command of an unruly tangle of folk, country, and rock. The band does not so much make this record as keep it from flying apart. The intoxicating sound is matched with incisive word play, with the Felices using quirky laments and dark, urban poetry to bridge hillbilly and hipster. Ian Felice doesn't belt out songs; he sneaks them through a back door in your cranium, and the sparse yet jaunty drumming of Simone Felice, wheezy accordion groove from James Felice, propulsive bass lines by Christmas Clapton, and fiddle and washboard playing by Greg Farley provide the tools to pry open that door. The album ignites the imagination with tales of deceit, deception, and death, but the Felice Brothers leaven the grifter vibes with empathy for the underdog. Sure, the guy in "Penn Station" is as good as dead, but the Felices send him off in foot-stomping glory. (Out tomorrow) SCOTT McLENNAN...full text |
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| Nytimes |
“I’m king of the club/and I’m wearing the crown,” Flo Rida boasts on “Right Round,” which was the No. 1 song in the country for several weeks recently. Bionic and empty, it cribs liberally from Dead or Alive’s 1985 hit “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)” and sold a million digital copies faster than any other single to date. On “R.O.O.T.S.,” this Miami rapper’s second album, it’s introduced by a skit in which a record executive joylessly talks about “international setup” as if size were the only thing that mattered.
Hits are nice, but they’re not all created equal. Both Flo Rida and Mims are known their chart positions far more than for their skill sets. Over the last couple of years both of these rappers have essentially bypassed the hip-hop world on the way to pop success. But in different ways: Flo Rida remains a cipher, and Mims can’t escape himself....full text |
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