{"id":235,"date":"2012-05-17T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T08:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=235"},"modified":"2012-05-16T14:16:02","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T13:16:02","slug":"music-review-schoonerwesley-wolfe-12-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"Music Review: Schooner\/Wesley Wolfe 12″ Split"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Schooner<\/a>\/Wesley Wolfe<\/a>: 12″ Split Single Potluck Foundation<\/a>\/Tangible Formats<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been a fan of Schooner since the release of Hold on too Tight<\/em><\/a> in 2007, and so this 12\u201d single with Wesley Wolfe, released for Record Store Day back in April (yeah, I\u2019m running a little behind here) makes me feel like a dog wagging its tail with its tongue hanging out while somebody waves a bone-shaped biscuit above my nose.\u00a0 Two Schooner songs?! Plus a couple songs by a buddy of Schooner, one of which is a Schooner cover?! Wagwagwagwagwagshakehandswagwagwag.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t say anything about Schooner that I haven\u2019t said before: I love this stuff<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cTerrorized Mind\u201d starts out with some ooh-oohs and then reminds you that you will grow older.\u00a0 There\u2019s a hint of The Band running through this song: it holds together folk and country and blues with a slow and dynamic rock sound made by guitars, bass, drums and some organ.<\/p>\n

\u201cLocked In\u201d is Schooner\u2019s take on a Wesley Wolfe song: the sound is more spare, the song more of a lilt-stomp, but we get a guitar doing an impression of a singing saw, and an actual singing saw, and Maria Albani taking lead vocals, which makes it something like a five-and-a-half minute Organos<\/a> song, and that\u2019s something we can celebrate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wesley Wolfe gives us \u201cCrying Laughing\u201d, fast-paced and jangly-noisy guitar poprock straight out of your teenage years if you\u2019re of a certain age (ie, as old as me), and you know what, that\u2019s nothing bad: pretty little lead guitar melodies and plenty of stomping on the effects pedals to keep you bouncing.\u00a0 I\u2019m pretty much programmed to like anything that pretty much takes a page or two from the Superchunk song book, and that\u2019s pretty much what we get here.\u00a0 Pretty much.<\/p>\n

The second Wesley Wolfe song is a cover of the Schooner song \u201cIndian Sunburn\u201d, a washed-out wistful goodbye to summer\/hello to fall that doesn\u2019t let you drip too far into moroseness before it starts backbeating your feet to the dancefloor for a middle sixteen or whatever bars.\u00a0 Of course things have to slow back down again: your summer shoes have worn out, and summer fades to Indian summer, fades to fall.<\/p>\n

The limited edition vinyl version of this record is sold out, but you can still get the digital download for four bucks.\u00a0 A dollar a song?\u00a0 Bargain.<\/p>\n

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