Forfeit / Fortune

Crooked Fingers, Crooked Fingers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 7, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: +1 Records
• ASIN: B001HUIUNG
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #147,811 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Eric Bachman is a genius!, May 21, 2009

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Oscar Stern "Dock Oscar" (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Forfeit / Fortune (Audio CD)

What is going on that Eric Bachman/Crooked Fingers is not at the top of the charts? After Archers of Loaf, Eric spread his wings and flew with Crooked Fingers (along with some solo albums). Mr. Bachman has his style with spare sad songs of mostly self-destructive people. Then with Crooked Fingers notched it up with Dignity and Shame (a concept album) and now we are here with Forfeit/Fortune.

Crooked Fingers dares to grow musically and this album has more of a "Pop" feel. More harmonies than previous releases. His voice sounds great against female vocalists, a nice contrast. More synths (Your Control) yet still nylon guitars (¡No Me Lo Des!) and cello. But wait, horns (What Never Comes) and Balkan influenced instrumentation (Let's Not Pretend (To Be New Men))

This guy is dedicated to his music, I saw a show where he was catching a nap in a van parked outside the club (NYC) after driving there. Show biz is so glamorous.

No flash in the pan, check out the entire Crooked Fingers discography. Eric is one of the best songwriters out there...period!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A hundred million people could be wrong, January 7, 2011

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J. Pearson "gosein" (Wilmington, DE United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Forfeit / Fortune (Audio CD)

Let us not forget that Mr. Bachmann is capable of writing a modern day rock anthem about something as mundane/existential as an unspecified problem with his (presumably breakfast) toast (see "Toast" by the Archers of Loaf). I was heartbroken when the Archers disbanded, as they recorded some of the most brilliant pop music ever put to disc or tape (I don't think there's ever been a more effective use of a vocoder than on "One Slight Wrong Move" from the Archers brilliant "White Trash Heroes").

This disc shows a natural progression, I think, of where the Archers were headed, much more so than the other Crooked Fingers releases. "Cannibals", for example, sounds like it could've been an outake from "White Trash Heroes" with it's lovely concertina riff and proud anthemic strumming. I'm not positive what it's about, but it sure sounds like a bitter lamentation on the trappings of fame. I'm still wiping the piles of bile from under my speakers. And I agree that the songs "Modern Dislocation" and "Your Control" are just brilliant. Sort of like Thin White Rope meets Jesus Lizard--and that could never be a bad thing.

But then again, a hundred million people could be wrong.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not the album I was looking for from the Crooked Fingers, March 8, 2009

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Uthor - See all my reviews

This review is from: Forfeit / Fortune (Audio CD)

My first Crooked Fingers album was Dignity and Shame, which I think is a brilliant mix of pop and country. Red Devil Dawn was much more country oriented, but still mostly good. Bring on the Snakes was even further down the country scale and I liked it much less.

This album follows the trend of dropping the country sound for pop music. A lot of these songs would be at home on a Top 40 station. The Crooked Fingers experiment with a lot of sounds on this album, but in the end, the pop music sound is not something I'm looking for. I don't see myself listening to this album that often.