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Stalled Parade
Eleventh Dream Day
Stalled Parade
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
 
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Eleventh Dream Day may possibly be the best band you've never heard, and their influence reaches far beyond their seven albums. Founding members also contribute to the musical canon through the postrock band Tortoise and t...  more »

     
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All Artists: Eleventh Dream Day
Title: Stalled Parade
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Thrill Jockey
Original Release Date: 9/5/2000
Release Date: 9/5/2000
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
Styles: Indie & Lo-Fi, Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 790377008524, 790377008517

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Eleventh Dream Day may possibly be the best band you've never heard, and their influence reaches far beyond their seven albums. Founding members also contribute to the musical canon through the postrock band Tortoise and the excellent country outfit Freakwater. But despite the breadth and success of those projects, it's a blessing when the wandering artists head back home to the Eleventh Dream Day hearth, and Stalled Parade is their best homecoming yet. Rather than change with each album, the band continues to explore the sonic territory between hush and bang with ever-increasing whimsy, innovation, and reverence. Evoking great drama in the confluence of opposites: silence and noise, entropy and melody, they sometimes manage to be everything at once. Even the interplay between Rick Rizzo's hushed, intimate whisper and Janet Beveridge Bean's resonant croon, which dips and soars with a cellist's proficiency, manages to be both dialogue and argument. In the hands of anyone else, "Valrico74" would be just a quiet little ditty, but Eleventh Dream Day create a jumbled collage built from scraps of Bean's haunting melody, a plunked random piano, a subtle surf of feedback, and just a bit of the guitar freak-out that Bean's husband, Rizzo, excels at (he sounds a bit like Neil Young channeling outer-space feedback). The result is beautiful but vaguely unsettling. "Ice Storm" is vintage Eleventh Dream Day, with a chilling guitar squall and thumping backbeat. "Way Too Early on Sunday Morning" may be the best thing they've ever recorded, a song that wavers with a hangover's intensity, gradually building toward an uncomfortable crisis then easing into a sunny denouement. The album's title may suggest the band members are taking a breather before marching off again, but as the musical journeys on Stalled Parade attest, you don't need to leave home to go far, far away. --Tod Nelson

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CD Reviews

Strange sounds from another era
Brian D. Rubendall | Oakton, VA | 09/29/2000
(4 out of 5 stars)

"I purchased "Stalled Parade" on the basis of some good buzz in the underground music place. Eleventh Dream Day, a "noise" band in the mode of Sonic Youth, has been around since the late 1980s and haven't generated a huge following outside their native Chicago. The music on this album sounds similar to the Youth at the turn of the 90s. Unfortunately, the band's sound is WAY out of vogue these days, and that's a shame because there's a lot to like here. At times, such as with the title song and "Way Too Early on a Sunday Morning," there's even a hook sprouting from the strange background sounds. Overall, this album transported me back to the pre-Brittney, pre-Eminem era when the term "alternative rock" actually meant something."
Oh yeah oh yeah
kadixjvr5408urransyxzq | Kent, OH United States | 01/03/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)

"No offense to Freakwater fans, but i am SO glad when Ms. Bean and all the other Dream Day people get back together to do another record. I first heard their disc "Beet" when i was in exactly the right mood for something kinda like old-timey rough and melodo-punky that was at the same time brand new, and then i got totally hypnotized by their record "Eighth", which i found by accident in a noncyber store where it was filed under "D" instead of "E". Anyway, this latest disc is extra-dreamy, and even the cover art kinda reminds me in a good way of what a glorious mess things still are (believe it or not) at the edge of mainstream glitter and hype. The sounds that come off this record are rich and full of all kinds of mysteries, and Eleventh Dream Day completely deserves to be very un-obscure."
Excellent music shines in obscurity
Jarrod | Montana | 12/04/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)

"My brother bought Stalled Parade for me last Christmas. It was the first time I ever heard of Eleventh Dream Day. What have I been missing? ONLY ONE OF THE BEST BANDS IN EXISTENCE! I love this CD. All nine songs are excellently written and performed. I really enjoy the variation of vocals. The music reminds me of Neil Young, REM, and Fleetwood Mac, but it has an awesome new sound in it that I can't place. If you enjoy good rock music that is a genuine alternative to what is currently popular, buy Eleventh Dream Day's Stalled Parade. Rock on!"