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01. GRAPE ROOM - Yogurt Maid
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02. GRAPE ROOM - My Feeling Came Back
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03. GRAPE ROOM - Toon Time #1
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04. GRAPE ROOM - 3rd Quarter Bouruet
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05. GRAPE ROOM - Toon Time #2
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06. GRAPE ROOM - Everything's Funny
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07. GRAPE ROOM - Toon Time #3
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08. GRAPE ROOM - Blue Angel
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09. GRAPE ROOM - Different Way
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10. GRAPE ROOM - Toon Time #4
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11. GRAPE ROOM - Online Dwarf
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12. GRAPE ROOM - A Little Tree
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13. GRAPE ROOM - The Perfect Strum
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14. GRAPE ROOM - Just Not the 1
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15. GRAPE ROOM - Night Never Came Today
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ARTIST
GRAPE ROOM
TITLE
Cartoon Land
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
FEEDING TUBE RECORDS
CATALOG #
FTR 205LP
FTR 205LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
5/12/2015
"Alright...
Grape Room
is a trio made up of
Peter Nichols
,
Jo Miller-Gamble
and
Danny Bissette
. This means it's related to
Great Valley
and
Peter's Window
, as well as a web of other screwball Brat-pop generators that only a goddamn tree farmer can actually unravel. Like some of these other projects, Grape Room uses pop gesturing to create curiously operatic narratives. This one involving a cabal of sad cartoon bears. What makes them so sad? Long winters, lack of honey and the inability to tell time. How this is crafted into a compelling story is difficult to explain, but much of it has to do with the massive pop shivers that occur throughout the album. Especially when played at very high volume, Grape Room's music grooves along like an ursine version of
Game Theory
-- using '80s-sounding tongue-moves to create a larger picture of something that could only exist outside the '80s. This is how bears play guitar, they seem to be saying. And this is how they sing. And this is what they do when they want to sound like a parade of early '70s popsters trying their darnedest to make blind men dance. And often succeeding! One never quite knows what to make of the music that flowed out of Brattleboro so copiously over the past decade. As its proponents drift off to other parts of the globe, we may discover if it was actually something in the water that caused such magical confections as this to sprout willy nilly from so many ripe foreheads. But for the nonce, we are best off just sitting back in our rocking chairs and chuckling at each other while getting-but-not-quite-getting the dither-worthy fluff these lads are emitting. It's like spending a winter sleeping in the coziest cave you ever saw. And then some." --
Byron Coley
, 2015; limited edition of 350.
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