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Necktie Troublespot

by The Shark Bubbles

noise indie rock psychedelic music spacerock

10 tracks

41:54

1	Casual Career	5:59
2	Dark Matter	4:05
3	Maquis de Battlestar	3:22
4	Heaven's Gate	4:08
5	Prometheus 2010	4:21
6	In a Conference	3:24
7	Summer	3:03
8	Jobs	3:14
9	Night Train	8:31
10	Casual Conference	1:47

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recorded 2008, released 2009.

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Reviews on Necktie Troublespot

Christian Bonner

Swoon...

15/10/09

How to describe this amazing band/album?? Maybe psychedelic indie-rock, with some tantalizing early 1990's shoegaze inflections... male and female vocals with surprisingly nimble harmonies... some unexpected raga-like guitar breaks here and there. Overall this band combines many disparate elements, but makes them all WORK through strong, sometimes heart-wrenching songs. No song on here is less than great, but my favorites would have to be "In A Conference" and "Night Train" (which has a coda that is beautiful beyond belief). Listening to this album will give you a much better idea of how masterful it is, rather than reading me trying to describe it. Overall, 2009 has seen many great releases - for me, "Necktie Troublespot" is probably at the very top. This band is amazing. I just can't say enough about it, so I'll stop now. Thank you Shark Bubbles! More, please...

HunterJE

I don't even know.

26/03/10

This is not my first try at writing this review; over the few weeks since I stumbled on this album I've thrown away half-written reviews at least a dozen times. It's not for a lack of elements to discuss -- I could talk a bout the fantastic harmonies and even more fantastic almost-harmonies in the vocals, about the wide stylistic range and the perfect transitions between and within styles, the unstuck-in-time feel (one moment it feels retro, the next moment it feels absolutely modern, the next like the future of some alternate past -- except not, because all three moments are happening simultaneously as often as not). I could talk about the emotionality or the technical skill or the deliciousness of the recursing jams or the psychedelic raga moments. I love all of the above and more, but they're really not what I love about the album; what I love about the album is some holistic, emergent property of their combination, and in and of itself it proves peskily difficult to nail down in words. So I guess I'll have to use numbers -- while I generally hesitate to give perfect ratings in anything, this 10 is earned in full.

:EDIT: Oh, and didn't even mention the awesome cover art -- nothing is missing here.