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Amazon.com's Best of 1998
With its loping, chunky, buzzed-out-bliss guitar line and distorted-vocal-loop tracking nestled in organ groove, plus chim-chim-cherie chimey vibes and tight snare, "Greetings from the Sugar Lick" is one of 1998's most alluring repeat-play songs. A hyper-rich offering in a less than frugal year, the Spinanes' Arches and Aisles marries the smart-assy punk sass of Manos with the brittle delicacy and spaciousness of length of Strand to make Rebecca Gates's finest yet. --Paige La Grone
Imagine an old, gauzy picture of an ex-lover, or a fuzzy childhood memory of a secret hideaway, or maybe the la
Amazon.com's Best of 1998
With its loping, chunky, buzzed-out-bliss guitar line and distorted-vocal-loop tracking nestled in organ groove, plus chim-chim-cherie chimey vibes and tight snare, "Greetings from the Sugar Lick" is one of 1998's most alluring repeat-play songs. A hyper-rich offering in a less than frugal year, the Spinanes' Arches and Aisles marries the smart-assy punk sass of Manos with the brittle delicacy and spaciousness of length of Strand to make Rebecca Gates's finest yet. --Paige La Grone
Imagine an old, gauzy picture of an ex-lover, or a fuzzy childhood memory of a secret hideaway, or maybe the last cigarette you smoked before quitting (the first time). Arches and Aisles, a continuation of the musical territory the Spinanes charted on their last release, "Strand," inspires those kind of personal, evocative recollections in its simmering but subdued tonal structures, and the Suzanne Vega-like vocal restraint of lead singer-songwriter Rebecca Gates. There's a passion on this album that somehow comes out of that restraint, and a recognizable, yet intensely individual, slant on seeking love and understanding that transcends those well-worn lyrical preoccupations. In moments of release, the music can be breathtakingly forward ("Greetings From the Sugar Lick") or teasingly modest ("Love, the Lazee"), but most of the time, the album feels like a delicate balance; a high-wire act with a net made of velvet. --Matthew Cooke
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Manufacturer: Sub Pop
Release date: 23 June 1998
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0098787041729 UPC: 098787041729
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