Another Essex Green Review!

[blaise]

Hi everyone, here's yet another review for the incredible Essex Green album. If you die-hard fans know of any errors, do let me know.

Urban Pollution Review of Cannibal Sea (http://www.urbanpollution.com/Music/The_Essex_Green/Cannibal_Sea/)

[el topo]

Great review. I think I caught one error (which is probably more of a slip)...



The low register of Ziter’s voice and his relatively stripped-down aesthetic felt foreign and tended to distract on the band’s previous releases, but here a song like “Rabbit” fits in perfectly, especially when his band mates coat the melodies with their higher-pitched vocals.


I think you meant "Baron" instead of "Ziter." Actually Chris Ziter can pitch his voice very high; Baron's is low, and he sings on Rabbit, as you probably know.

One of the better reviews I've read, thanks...

[blaise]

Thank you!

[CrazyHorse]

I saw another error.

Take the sundry opener “This Isn’t Farm Life,” complete with bouncing verses and versatile drumming courtesy of Tim Barnes, one of the most impressive and dead-on percussionists in the admittedly flourish-free world of folky pop.

Tim Barnes isn't drumming on the album. San Fadyl (Ladybug drummer) is credited in the liner notes so maybe he's drumming on that one.

[blaise]

Thanks for pointing that out. Merge just sent us a promo copy without liner notes, and I thought the drummer was still Barnes. Either way, the Ladybug Transistor guy is great, and it fits the album just fine.

I really liked Barnes' drumming, though, I saw The Essex Green live sometime in 2001 on like a Tuesday night, and I was so impressed with how skilled he was.