Bundle of Joy

Land of the Loops | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 22, 1997)
• Original Release Date: July 29, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Up.
• ASIN: B000003L1F
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #220,161 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm not sure why..., April 19, 2003

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Lee Rentless (Pugetropolis) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bundle of Joy (Audio CD)

but I can't go without listening to this for more than a month since I first heard it. A friend of mine got two slightly different copies of this in a bulk purchase from an excellent independent music store liquidating it's largely scorched inventory after a pretty devastating fire (only the good die young). In an act of uncharacteristic charity, I ended up with a slightly charred demo copy. I've treasured it ever since.

Having dispensed with the maudlin discovery story, beep-boop ditties like Day Late & A Dollar Short, I Dream Of Ghosts, Cruisin For Sentient Beings, and Help For Your Aching Back move right along with haunting hooks, catchy beats, and ghostly atmospherics. Suitable for rainy downtown nights, many of which I'm sure the creator spent in a garage-turned-evil-electronic-laboratory, programming this eccentric classic.

A one of a kind. After the third or fourth listen, you will crave it's damp comfort. I am held in a puzzled sense of wonder.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars close to my heart, December 9, 2003

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TAKE IT FROM ME!!! (Cleveland Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bundle of Joy (Audio CD)

My friends and I happened on a a copy of a tape years ago that turned out to be "bundle of joy". We had know way of knowing this at the time because the tape was blank. After listening to it about a thousand times, we heard a reference made to UP RECORDS and figured it out from there. This music was a sort of sound track of those times spent with a close friend. Since then my friend has passed away but his memory will never escape me due in large part to this memorable album!!!!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Noisy Fun, February 18, 2000

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Scott Wejmar (Turlock, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bundle of Joy (Audio CD)

The best way I can describe this album is that it is a hodgepodge of strange and beautiful noises. The creator, Alan Sutherland, has woven obscure samples and original vocals over great loopy beats. The record opens up with a plunky guitar and a baby making noises. It quickly escalates into a great echoing beat and a woman's voice spelling out the artist name. The track, "Multi-Family Garage Sale" is catchy and recognizable from a Miller commercial a few years back. The record continues in haphazard fashion, interweaving original, childlike vocals and catchy beats. Its almost like Sutherland wrote created this record as the perfect music companion for those into "mind expansion." This has been the best find of the last few years. A beautiful, ambient trip that will have your head swimming.