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Contrary to the hilt, Desaparecidos head honcho Conor Oberst seems to be running his career in reverse. Before Read Music/ Speak Spanish--and though he was only born in 1980--Oberst was the callow poster boy of the alt-country set, releasing four lyrically fraught, musically mature albums as
Contrary to the hilt, Desaparecidos head honcho Conor Oberst seems to be running his career in reverse. Before Read Music/ Speak Spanish--and though he was only born in 1980--Oberst was the callow poster boy of the alt-country set, releasing four lyrically fraught, musically mature albums as leader of Bright Eyes. With that band on hiatus, however, Desaparecidos' debut marks a kind of splenetic regression. While most people grow out of jagged, intermittently cacophonous indie-punk, Oberst seems to have grown into it. Much of Read Music/ Speak Spanish, then, howls and tilts like a rather grisly reincarnation of the Pixies, or like some emo bands--The Dismemberment Plan, say--at their most impassioned and uncompromising. Oberst's always had a feverish way with words and emotions, as Bright Eyes' superb Fevers And Mirrors attests. And that band's subdued, tuneful settings certainly place his histrionics in a more original context. Still, it's hard not to be impressed--or at the very least winded--by Desaparecidos, and by Oberst's screeching indignation at the soulless corporate takeover of everyday American life. Cathartic stuff for everyone involved--not least the listener.--John Mulvey (Review copyright Amazon.co.uk)
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Track listing1. What's New For Fall
2. Man And Wife The Former (Financial Planning)
3. Manana
4. Great Omaha
5. Man And Wife The Latter (Damaged Goods)
6. Mall Of America
7. Happiest Place On Earth
8. Survival Of The Fittest/It's A Jungle Out There
9. Dollars
10. Hole In One
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