A Tomato a Day
"The Moon is Green" CDEP
Public Eyesore
Genre:
July 8 2008 |
A Tomato a Day a.k.a. Brian Poloncic's strange and
anti-melodic brand of folk rock music makes for a challenging and
somewhat eerie experience. Don't expect "tunes" in the
traditional sense of the word here; although
these seven tracks conform to pop song conventions
of instrumentation
(guitar/drums/bass/cello/vocals) and duration (average song length =
exactly 3:00), Poloncic's singing makes all the difference
here. On exemplary tracks "The Highest Kite" and "Silver Fox," his
detached, tuneless vocals convert otherwise straightforward
instrumentation into the background for unsettling, Jandek
caliber anti-pop. To many, the combination might be frustratingly
inaccessible, but to more open-minded listeners The Moon Is Green
reveals itself to be a desperate, introspective, tortured, and yet
strangely lovely EP.
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Matt Shimmer
[Vitals: 7 tracks, distributed by
the
label,
released 2008] |