構成数 | 1枚

合計収録時間 | 00:54:38

Ted Leo & The Pharmacists: Ted Leo (vocals, guitar, organ, melodica, percussion); Dorien Garry (electric piano); Dave Lerner (bass); Chris Wilson (drums). Additional personnel: Chris Leo (guitar, whistle, sound effects, background vocals); Ida Pearle (violin, backgound vocals); Eric Brunulf, Pat Graham (whistle, sound effects); Danny Leo (drums); Tiffany Anders, Jodi Buonanno, Pat Graham, Amy Leo, Tim Wright (background vocals). Recorded at the Rare Book Room, Brooklyn, New York between September 6 & 20, 2002. Personnel: Ted Leo (vocals, whistling, guitar, melodica, organ, percussion); Ida Pearle (whistling, violin); Jodi Buonanno, Chris Leo (whistling, background vocals); Dorien Garry (electric piano, organ, background vocals); David Lerner (bass guitar); Chris Wilson, Danny Leo (drums); Tiffany Anders (background vocals). Recording information: Rare Book Room, Brooklyn, NY (09/16/2002-09/20/2002). Photographer: Pat Graham . HEARTS OF OAK was Ted Leo's long-awaited breakthrough album. His former band Chisel never made it out of the indie-hipster ghetto, and the Washington DC native's earlier albums with the Pharmacists were sprawling, all-over-the-place conglomerations of old-school punk, ska, Irish folk, dub reggae and tape-splice experimentation. HEARTS OF OAK is almost as stylistically diverse as Leo's earlier records, but his songwriting is far sharper: here, all the pieces fit together into a cohesive whole. First single "Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone?" pays heartfelt tribute to the post-punk UK ska milieu of the late '70s and early '80s, namechecking all of the key figures of the scene but smartly avoiding temptation to mimic their sound; if anything, the head-down boogie and football-shout vocals sound more like prime Thin Lizzy! The other single, the tough but catchy "Tell Balgeary, Balgury Is Dead," is like late-era Jam at their most '60s obsessed, with a dash of Madness' ultra-English music hall period. The rest of the album moves easily from sparse electronics to clattering post-punk rock, rounding out this varied and very strong effort.

録音 | ステレオ (Studio)