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distorted at times on "Oliver
Twist," the song's most potent
moments come when he belts out
lines like, "It's hard to sit myself
down and just think about the
ocean" and "Shouldn't I be con-
tent with what I've got?" The fact
that these songs contain some
kind of tangible meaning outside
of the pure abstraction within
which Animal Collective nor-
mally operate signals a potential
change in at least one of AnCo's
members' entire approach toward
making music, which has been
previously hinted aton 2009'sFall
BeKind EP.
However, songs like the haunt-
ing "Ghost of Books" prove that
Avey Tare will probably never
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write songs exclusively about
real-world, material things. He
repeats, "So I ran away with my
ghost, yeah," over and over as the
bassline and bubbly beats of the
song fade out.
As the firstfull-length release by
a member of AnCo since the astro-
nomically adored Merriweather
Post Pavilion, the measuring stick
for an Animal Collective side proj-
ect is at an all-time high. Avey
Tare's tribal ruminations on Down
There are as accessible as Merri-
weather,but not as contagious. The
hypnotic nature of most of Down
There's tracks is less appealing to
the ear than the layered texturing
that made Merriweather so. suc-
cessful. In the end, the songs on
Down There lay the groundwork
for compelling and transcendent
tracks, but they never build to any-
thing greater, leaving the listener
teased but unsatisfied.
Liz Phair returns to show she shouldn't rap
'Funstyle' features
industry anger and
identity crisis
By CASSIE BALFOUR
For the Daily
It would be easy to dismiss Liz
Phair's latest album Funstyle as
catastrophic.
Phair has spent
her career strug-
gling with her .
musical identity,
from her indie- Funstyle
darling persona Self-released
(Exile in Guyville)
to the slick,
generic pop-industry product she
became during her soul-sucking
foray with a major label (Liz Phair,
Somebody's Miracle). It has all led
to the release of the experimental
and often wacky Funstyle, but one
has to sift through the admittedly
scattershot album in order to find
the tracks that signal Phair's bom-
bastic return to her indie roots.
Opening track "Smoke" starts
out with Phair trilling over a
poppy electronic beat and then
segues into a cartoony skit, reveal-
ing that Phair knows her album
won't be well received with lines
like "It's career suicide, kaboom."
"Smoke" and the truly bizarre
"Bollywood" are infused with
zany skits and some truly mis-
guided spoken-word verses. In the
faux-Indian-infused "Bollywood,"
Phair bitterly "raps" about selling
out in order to feed her kid, which,
though not exactly pleasant to lis-
ten to, provides some context as
to why Phair would release such
a weird album. It is essentially a
middle finger to the music indus-
try that stifled and took advantage
of her.
The closing track "U Hate It"
also mocks the record executives
and the music industry. It features
voiceovers from record execs dis-
cussing how much they hate the
album while Phair croons indig-
nantly and makes terrible puns
("you're being a penis ... colada,
that is").
"You Should Know Me" is jar-
ring in that it's so radically differ-
ent from the nearly unlistenable
"Smoke" and "Bollywood." The
track is the kind of stripped-down,
slightly off-key song that made
Phair into an indie hit back in
the '90s. Another standout is the
funky, horn-infused jam "My, My,"
which finds the middle ground
between her charmingly out-of-
tune warbles and weird caricature
of music that blights Funstyle. Its
sexy swagger waxes nostalgic on
early work like Exile in Guyville,
but with a synthy overtone. She
sings with a smirky lilt "Could
have been a good girl, but I'm not,"
as if almost defying the listener to
dismiss her latest album.
"Bang! Bang!" is surprisingly
atmospheric, with Phair's voice
dreamily ricocheting. But this
experimental track doesn't totally
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work. It starts to drag after a while,
despite having a richly textured
sound that with some tuning up
could be fantastic. In fact, that's an
inherent problem - it isn't polished
at all. It's messy and incoherent, yet
a refreshing departure from the
overly produced junk Phair was
releasing when she was still chas-
ing after mainstream success.
When Phair isn't getting caught
up in poor satire and distract-
ing listeners from the other more
promising tracks, she actually
COURTESY OF LIZ PHAIR
demonstrates impressive range.
From funky sounds to her earthier
girl-and-guitar vibe, Phair's tal-
ents occasionally manage to shine
beneath some of the muck. Fun-
style has Phair finally helming her
own ship, and she uses this new-
found creative freedom to explore
new sounds. Now that Phair has
had this little tantrum out of
her system and has shed her pop
sheen, she is free to reinvent her-
self as an independent songstress
- hopefully minus the rap.
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