Thigmotactic

Negativland | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 15, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Seeland Records
• ASIN: B001914U3M
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #376,174 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Negativland's Mark Hosler, with assistance from bandmates and friends, crafts a pop record with a decidedly surreal bent: eccentric, toe-tapping, electronic, folk-pop, noise songs strung together to form a cohesive listen, with themes emerging around meat, feet, pants, milk, cows, trucks, Herb Alpert, Richard Nixon, and even love.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Negativland sings!, July 28, 2008

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George T. Parsons (Nevada City, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Thigmotactic (Audio CD)

By far the most song-oriented release in Negativland's long a varied career. Very catchy too! There are many oddball hit songs from a better more chipper parallel dimension. Very groovy with a high quality of material throughout, and still utizing scads of well chosen samples and snips of found sounds as well. Plundering pop culture the reflect back an insightful funhouse-mirror caricature. Instantly one of Negativland's most essential and accomplished recordings.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very song-oriented Negativland work, March 8, 2009

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Michael A. Duvernois (Minneapolis, MN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Thigmotactic (Audio CD)

It's most similar to Escape From Noise if we're looking at the back catalog. The found sounds and sample pieces are present, but there's a lot more singing, much more of a traditional song-oriented album here. The sound quality is first rate. The songs themselves reflect a bubbly saccharine-drenched parody of popular culture. While less "experimental" in sound, the essential core of Negativland is still here, sampling and parodying the dominant culture. Listen to the samples to see if the actual music strikes you as interesting in addition to the ideas being interesting.