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ARTIST
HOLLOW DECK
TITLE
Hobson's Choice
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
FEEDING TUBE RECORDS
CATALOG #
FTR 239LP
FTR 239LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
5/13/2016
"The debut LP by this Western Mass duo is a masterpiece of fractured air. The two performers are
Andy Allen
(from the original line-up of
Guerilla Toss
, among many other places) and
Mia Friedman
(whose collaborations apart from this include
Lichen
and appearances with
Lauri McNamara
's
Carbuncles
). Previously issued as a cassette,
Hobson's Choice
is a blend of traditional and experimental approaches that alternately puts us in mind of several units inhabiting the landscape of Strange Maine over the last decade, and the animated '30s cartoons of
Max Fleischer
. And
Hollow Deck
have a unique way of quivering between their two main style poles guaranteed to put hair on anyone's chest. From its first song, the album is a bridge between beauty (as personified by Mia's singing voice) and odd instrumental work that moves from clutter to clack to clam in the space of a blink. A few of the tracks are so sweetly arranged -- rural voice and flute gliding above warm fields -- that it almost feels like insanity is on the wind when the musical proceedings turn dark and unruly. But, as in life, they always do eventually, if only for the nonce. Before you know it, the scene turns into a nursery room theatrical with mice in white gloves capering while the cat naps. Other gorgeous bits recall
Joanne Robertson
at her most elegiac, singing along to a broken record. Then flutes join the fun, as though representing a pack of wolves mourning the death of the moon.
Hobson's Choice
is filled with many other such seemingly contradictory juxtapositions. Letting them flow through your head will free you -- if only for a moment -- from the world around us, delivering you somewhere new before snatching you back to reality. Enjoy the trip." - Byron Coley, 2016
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