Flight Of The Conchords New Album Out 23rd of October
Heals, 28-Sep-09 » 
We likes the freaky.
While Flight of the Conchords first hammered out their reputation from behind the relative safety of acoustic guitars, blithely billed as a “folk comedy” act, nowadays their musical style runs rampant, unchecked. Judging from the range displayed on their sophomore album I Told You I Was Freaky, Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement have yet to unearth a genre which can withstand their artistry.
Unflinching in their lyrical stance, sophisticated with their arrangements, crafting melodies which always lodge firmly in the frontal lobe: Flight of the Conchords have here created 13 best-selling ringtones, humbly masquerading as songs. Their rhymes are fearless, their thesauruses dog-eared. Only cool, confident specimens of manhood such as these could drop three-dollar vocabulary busters like “dungarees” and “pantaloons” while still mesmerizing the ladies with their undulating “Sugalumps.” Vivid imagery? Check: The ardent “Angels” should spur listeners to think twice the next time they consider catching a
snowflake on their tongues. Better still, the amorous odyssey of the album’s zenith, “We’re Both in Love with a Sexy Lady,” unfolds before the listener’s very ears in real time; Flight of the Conchords are making history, and you are there!
I Told You I Was Freaky is, among a great many other things, a genre-tripping tour de force and features from the second series of their popular and award-winning HBO / SBS TV show, of which three tracks haven't yet been released through iTunes and are exclusive to the album (“Rambling Through the Avenues of Time”, “Too Many Dicks (On the Dance Floor)” and “You Don’t Have to Be a Prostitute”).
The title track to the latest album
1. Hurt Feelings
2. Sugalumps (featuring Arj "Dave" Barker)
3. We’re Both in Love with a Sexy Lady
4. I Told You I Was Freaky
5. Demon Woman
6. Rambling Through the Avenues of Time
7. Fashion Is Danger
8. Petrov, Yelyena and Me (featuring Kristen "Mel" Schaal)
9. Too Many Dicks (On the Dance Floor) (featuring Arj "Dave" Barker)
10. You Don't Have To Be a Prostitute (featuring Sia)
11. Friends (featuring Rhys "Murray" Darby)
12. Carol Brown (featuring Sia)
13. Angels
I Told You I Was Freaky is out through Stomp / Sub Pop on the 23rd of October.
http://www.myspace.com/conchords
We likes the freaky.
While Flight of the Conchords first hammered out their reputation from behind the relative safety of acoustic guitars, blithely billed as a “folk comedy” act, nowadays their musical style runs rampant, unchecked. Judging from the range displayed on their sophomore album I Told You I Was Freaky, Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement have yet to unearth a genre which can withstand their artistry.
Unflinching in their lyrical stance, sophisticated with their arrangements, crafting melodies which always lodge firmly in the frontal lobe: Flight of the Conchords have here created 13 best-selling ringtones, humbly masquerading as songs. Their rhymes are fearless, their thesauruses dog-eared. Only cool, confident specimens of manhood such as these could drop three-dollar vocabulary busters like “dungarees” and “pantaloons” while still mesmerizing the ladies with their undulating “Sugalumps.” Vivid imagery? Check: The ardent “Angels” should spur listeners to think twice the next time they consider catching a
snowflake on their tongues. Better still, the amorous odyssey of the album’s zenith, “We’re Both in Love with a Sexy Lady,” unfolds before the listener’s very ears in real time; Flight of the Conchords are making history, and you are there!
I Told You I Was Freaky is, among a great many other things, a genre-tripping tour de force and features from the second series of their popular and award-winning HBO / SBS TV show, of which three tracks haven't yet been released through iTunes and are exclusive to the album (“Rambling Through the Avenues of Time”, “Too Many Dicks (On the Dance Floor)” and “You Don’t Have to Be a Prostitute”).
The title track to the latest album
1. Hurt Feelings
2. Sugalumps (featuring Arj "Dave" Barker)
3. We’re Both in Love with a Sexy Lady
4. I Told You I Was Freaky
5. Demon Woman
6. Rambling Through the Avenues of Time
7. Fashion Is Danger
8. Petrov, Yelyena and Me (featuring Kristen "Mel" Schaal)
9. Too Many Dicks (On the Dance Floor) (featuring Arj "Dave" Barker)
10. You Don't Have To Be a Prostitute (featuring Sia)
11. Friends (featuring Rhys "Murray" Darby)
12. Carol Brown (featuring Sia)
13. Angels
I Told You I Was Freaky is out through Stomp / Sub Pop on the 23rd of October.
http://www.myspace.com/conchords
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| Posted: | 28-Sep-09 5:10:51 pm |
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