Merriment

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:33:40
Personnel includes: Vic Chesnutt (vocals, guitar); Kelly Keneipp, Nikki Keneipp (various instruments); Curtiss Pernice (guitar, background vocals); Bob Kimbell (piano); Jack Logan (bass); Aaron Phillips (drums); Sam Mixon, The Pans (background vocals). Producers: Vic Chesnutt, Kelly & Nikki Keneipp. Personnel: Vic Chesnutt (vocals, background vocals); Curtiss Pernice (guitar, background vocals); Aaron Phillips (drums); Tina W. Chesnutt (sequencer); Sam Mixon (background vocals). Recording information: Backburner Complex. Georgia husband-and-wife musicians Kelly and Nikki Keneipp have a small, lo-fi label, Backburner Records. They also have a rising cult-hero friend in singer/songwriter/brilliantly whacked-out lyricist Vic Chesnutt. All these elements are brought together in the subtle pastiche of MERRIMENT. Here, the Keneipps provide unique and playful musical backdrops, while Chesnutt contributes his unmistakable voice, his gut-string guitar strumming, and some of his most wondrously silly lyrics to date. MERRIMENT plays just like its title, marvelous talents proving it's never too late to have a happy childhood, and a joyfully vibrant one at that. Vic Chesnutt's lyrics are twisted nursery rhymes about spiders and caterpillars and "a jolly kid upon a trike," floating above bizarre, lo-fi, borderline progressive melody lines. The title track is pure genius, lying somewhere between David Bowie and the Halo Benders, as Chesnutt's vocals draw the listener into his child-like netherworld. There are also some relatively straightforward bluesy-pop songs amid all this quirkiness, such as the introspective "Sunny Pasture," and the driving "Preponderance."
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)