Downtime

Peter Blegvad | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 10, 1996)
• Original Release Date: 1989
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: East Side Digital
• ASIN: B000000PM1
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #190,482 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Model of Kindness

2. Not Weak Enough

3. Card to Bernard

4. White

5. Strong, Simple Silences

6. When the World Was New

7. Animated Doll

8. I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby

9. Bared Bard

10. Lying Again

11. Crumb de la Crumb

12. Actual Frenzy

13. The Green Boy

14. Say No Now

15. The Wife of Usher's Well [*]

16. Live Crumb [*]

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars beautifully scruffy, August 19, 2003

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Andrew D. Rohn (Madison, WI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Downtime (Audio CD)

One of my favorites! This is the only Peter Blegvad album I know, but from what I've read of reviews of his other work, I would put this mid-way on the continuum between stripped-down acoustic and heavily produced experimental. In other words:perfect. Beautiful, moving songs, and often funny, too. The production and arrangements are scruffy and imaginative -- each song has it's own sound, and many sound like nothing else. Most are acoustic guitar-based, often with chorused or reverby electric guitar layered on. The drumming is of special note -- unpredictable, sometimes crazed, full of personality. Anyone who likes great lyrics and quirky production will probably love this. I like it in the same way I like atmospheric bossa nova guy Arto Lindsay, but Blegvad is funnier and warmer.