Effete Coquette

The Nabokov Project | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 15, 2001)
• Original Release Date: April 15, 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• ASIN: B00005UO32
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,833,702 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Intro

2. Japanese Pop

3. at the punk rock show

4. White Pill Taken

5. Sea Song

6. Dramatic music from the unmade movie

7. Violin Interlude

8. the Gift

9. Josh Land's Last Dream

10. Ted's Song

11. Lost and Found

12. Outro

13. the Gift (Acoustic)

14. Girl on a Bus

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Multi-Genre Lo-Fi, May 23, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Effete Coquette (Audio CD)

I first came across this artist on MP3.com. I've stayed closely posted to their every move ever since. While many may be turned off by lo-fi music (lo-fi, by the way, does not = bad), I was compelled by the Nabokov Project's range and depth on "Effete Coquette." There are no mainstream artists who can successfully manage to bridge this many musical genres and still deliver a solid product. This album stretches from experimental, folk, punk, rock, to hardcore-weird without missing a beat while managing to produce a debut that offers much hope for future releases. These songs are political and practical. They resonate with a musical and lyrical force that most bands fear in that they never stray away from the tough issues of our times: suicide (White Pill Taken), rape (the Gift), class exploitation (Josh Land's Last Dream), death/loss (Ted's Song) and first-world apathy (at the punk rock show). While these songs are far from perfect, I fear that the world would be a lesser place without these tunes in its cultural matrix. This is a project worth paying serious attention to. By the way, the instrumentals ?Japanese Pop? and ?Dramatic Music from the Unmade Movie? are to die for. Worth the listen/purchase to any lo-fi, alt/post-rock fan.