Family Perfume, Vols. 1 & 2 [LP] by White Fence.
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Description
Tracks:
WF FP Intro
Swagger Vets & Double Moon
Long White Curtain
Balance Yr Heart
Do You Know Ida Know?
Down PNX
Take Away Life's Endless Take
Hope! Servitude, I Have No!
It Will Never Be
Soaring, Daily Pique, No. 2
Hermes Blues, A
Hey! Roman Nose
Breathe Again
Daily Pique
Groundskeeper Rag (Man's Man)
She Relief
I'd Sing
Real Smiles
Lizards First
It's Confusing When You Wake Up
Upstart Girls
Stomach Sexes
Good Night, A
Latchkeys
Anna
Be at Home
Makers
Tame
King of the Decade
Performer Notes: Taking notes on prolificity from Guided by Voices, stereo panning from Hendrix, and pretty much everything else from early Pink Floyd, White Fence has concocted an overloaded set of psyched-out garage blasts, stuffing Family Perfume, Vols. 1-2 to the gills with tripped sounds and zoned-out melodies. Working under the moniker White Fence, Strange Boys member Tim Presley has written and recorded feverishly, producing at least an album a year since 2010, and now this mammoth two-volume collection, hot on the heels of a collaborative record with equally compulsive songsmith Ty Segall earlier in 2012. The 28 songs wander back and forth between dreamy acid folk ("Balance Your Heart", "Tame"), Beatlesque pop/rock ("Real Smiles"), and experimentally psychedelic garage rock. Presley wears his '60s psychedelia influences proudly and sometimes a little too apparently. "I'd Sing This Song" comes close to a Syd Barrett impression, and so much of the record is steeped deeply in the Kevin Ayers/Syd Barrett maniac genius sound that it gets to be a bit much at times. What keeps Family Perfume interesting even with its extensive length and dips into overly derivative songcraft is its constantly shifting production. Sounding by turns home-recorded, sound-collaged, and wired directly into some broken apparatus from a distant dream, Presley's songs embrace the lo-fi territory pioneered by Ariel Pink's shortwave disco soundtracks, applying a generous audio glaze to his updated garage psyche outbursts. The ratio of quality tracks over filler is high enough to merit both volumes, which is an accomplishment in itself when approaching an album this ambitious. Even still, Family Perfume requires getting lost in, and many listeners will simply not have the time, attention span, or inclination to commit to the entire journey. Luckily, White Fence's homespun take on the White Album is easily digestible in small doses, and always there with another song if you're still wanting more. ~ Fred Thomas
Format: Vinyl (1 Disc)
Studio/Live: Studio
Release Date: 17 July, 2012
Label: Woodsist
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