Full-length CD
June 2002
KC016

Masterful chameleon rockers Cordelia's Dad are back with a stunning collection of 14 rock songs on What It Is. It's a voltage-enhanced thing that was exercised under Steve Albini's (Nirvana, The Jesus Lizard) tutelage in 1997 and Mark Alan Miller's (Dinosaur Jr., Pernice Brothers) engineering hand in 1999. There are collaborations with traditional fiddler Laura Risk (Greenfire), experimental trombonist Mike Heffley (Anthony Braxton) and even some overtone singing. From pure unaccompanied harmonies to hellish feedback, from the dreadfully bleak to the irrepressibly sunny, What it is demands that all who have up to now followed Cordelia's Dad's "folk" career scrub up a fresh ear. This is the most American of musics. Let it blast all your folkie pre-conceptions to rubble.

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Songs

Camille's Not Afraid Of The Barn
Upswing
Inhaler
Eyelovemusic   > mp3 (1.4MB)
Five Way Flashlight
Little Speckled Egg
Despair
Hammer
Rock Me (To Sleep)
Brother Judson   > mp3 (2.6MB)
Dark And Rolling Eye
Leave Your Light On
Song Of The Heads
Brethren Sing

How to order

>>> Order online at The Garment District.

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6 Sagamore Road
Ipswich MA 01938
USA

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