{"id":321,"date":"2012-08-21T10:01:20","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T09:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=321"},"modified":"2012-08-20T11:16:58","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T10:16:58","slug":"music-review-joshua-carpenter-full-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=321","title":{"rendered":"Music Review: Joshua Carpenter “Full Flight”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Joshua Carpenter Full Flight<\/em><\/a> Potluck Foundation<\/a><\/p>\n

First of all, let\u2019s tip our pixellated hats to a guy who releases his album on cassette.\u00a0 On what?\u00a0 Luckily, at my house we still own a few cassette (what?) players, including one of those yellow sports Walkmen, which changes sides automatically and ran down many a set of 1980-90s batteries when I forgot to turn it off.\u00a0 For those of you who don\u2019t have a cassette (?) player, it comes with a download code, and we all know what that is.<\/p>\n

To the music!\u00a0 It\u2019s like some lovely album that George Harrison never got around to making.\u00a0 Seriously.\u00a0 It opens with six seconds of promising jangle-guitar strum that stop so far short of what you want you feel your stomach drop just a little bit, like hitting a big bump on the highway.\u00a0 And thereafter? Oh, friends, it\u2019s just two-and-a-half-to-three-minute pop gem after two-and-a-half-to -three-minute pop gem.\u00a0 There\u2019s a little countryish lilt to things and just the right kind of Beatlesyishness (ie, the George Harrison kind).<\/p>\n

Lyrically you get gems like this, in a slow and pretty acoustic number called \u201cNothing Take Her Place\u201d: \u201cShe came in \/ Swinging a mace \/ She wanted to see \/ The look on your face.\u201d\u00a0 Sung so delicately, almost sweetly, just a bit like that one guy from the Beatles.<\/p>\n

Actually, I think I\u2019m pushing the George Harrison thing too far, but I like George Harrison, and I like this album by Joshua Carpenter, so who cares.<\/p>\n

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