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Whirlaway best Tadpoles yet!, June 18, 2000
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Tadpoles Whirlaway (Camera Obscura) This Hoboken 4-piece do the guitar, bass, drums thing, but also add xylophone, ebow, organ and plenty of tastefully employed effects. This is their 4th full-length album, and it shows several of their winning aspects; from soaring space rock to the bucolic folk pop of their Dylan cover You Ain't Goin' Nowhere. They can hit like a flying anvil or float like they've got helium in their bones, but never without a sense of muscular momentum and interplay. Overall it's a fine intelligent branch of new century stoner rock's ever expanding family tree, the tundra crunching extraterrestial Smile if You've Crossed Over is a different version than the one presented on Urban Meadows (The Broken Face benefit album), so you're obviously gonna need both. The over 13 minute Horse and Buggy that closes this set is one of the more adventurous, indulgent, noisy and rewarding things here.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Tadpoles - 'Whirlway' (Camera Obscura) 4 1/2 stars, April 15, 2011
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Band's fourth and final actual official release. Tunes that more than did it for me were "Lyman Bostock", the stunning "Jimmy Colored Glasses", their Bob Dylan cover "You Ain't Going Nowhere", the eight-minute "Smile If You Crossed Over" and the fantastic thirteen-minute epic "Horse And Buggy". I noticed this CD does in fact sound a bit more mature (if you would) than a couple of the band's earlier efforts like 'Far Out' ('96) and 'Ghost Smoke' ('98). What I'd like to know is that since I've always been a huge fan of psychedelic - WHY haven't I ever heard of the Tadpoles before? Recommended.
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