Track Listings (10) - Disc #1| All Artists: J Mascis & Fog Title: Free So Free Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: Pony Canyon Japan Release Date: 12/11/2006 Album Type: Import Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock Styles: Indie & Lo-Fi, American Alternative Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 |
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Fronted by the prolific songwriting partnership of Gustaf Noren and Bjorn Dixgard, Sweden's Mando Diao ooze self belief. It's little surprise that this band have exploded in so many countries around the globe. In Japan, de... more » |
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Album Description Fronted by the prolific songwriting partnership of Gustaf Noren and Bjorn Dixgard, Sweden's Mando Diao ooze self belief. It's little surprise that this band have exploded in so many countries around the globe. In Japan, debut album Bring 'Em In went gold, and in the US the media went weak at the knees, while across Europe and of course Scandinavia, which has hardly been shy in offering fine music over the last few years, they play to sold out houses full of far from retiring fans. With "Hurricane Bar", they arrive fully formed, unstoppable, urgent and more ambitious than ever. For this album they hired Richard Rainey, best known for his work with U2. Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsCelebrating open potential 10/24/2003 (5 out of 5 stars) "Here is something completely different: a wonderful, joyous album celebrating those who define life on their own terms. This is music for people who do not have to enslave themselves to a group mentality in order to have a sense of identity. If you are one of those few who remain, then I recommend "Free so free." oh, and those people who gave this a bad review are stuffy, jaded critics who don't enjoy anything." Sleeper W. Crabtree | 07/17/2006 (4 out of 5 stars) "just had to write a review of this album. i nearly didn't buy it based on some pretty harsh reviews i'd read about it on amazon. but i'd been on a j/dinosaur kick lately, so i picked it up. man! do not underestimate j's solo work! i think i actually prefer this album and more light to any of his dinosaur jr output. the songs are much more focused and distinctive. sure, there are tons of people out there who disagree, but i just figure if his later stuff speaks this much to me, chances are it'll do it for others too. and that guy who complained about the excessive use of the word "free" missed the point. this album is a meditation on freedom, a subject vast enough to warrant an album's worth of thought and investigation." Free So So Sacco | here there and everywhere | 08/15/2006 (3 out of 5 stars) "'Free So Free' isn't a great album. Its not exactly bad either, just kind of middling. J Mascis hasn't really created a great set of songs since 'Green Mind' or maybe 'Where You Been?' both with his band Dinosaur Jr. This set of song isn't really all the different from where he left off with that band of his last album as J Mascis & the Fog. Imagine Neil Young only more of a slacker and virtually none of the anger. Only that probably unfair to J as his own distinct personality is for better or worse stamped all over 'Free So Free'. He spins of some incredible solos left and right, not so much spectacular virtuosity as quirky bits of twisted flights of fancy (not that J isn't a brilliant guitarist, he is).
The best song and the only really great one is 'Everybody Let's Me Down' a song J should have (some might meanly say already did) write years ago during the grunge explosion when it probably would have been a massive hit. Elsewhere this is tired album, full of songs about relationships that are breaking of have broken down and about breaking out of the ruts in life whether it be depression or just old habits. If you're not a big Dinosaur Jr. fan then I probably wouldn't recommend it, and even if you are only get it if you're a completist or you prefer the later albums than band put out." |
