At
Sea "Malfunctioning Teleprompter"
UAR034 CD
Released: 2005-03-04
The second album from Melbourne’s best kept acoustic roots/rock secret, At Sea have delivered what could be the world’s first miscommunication concept album. From its constant thread of words not coming out quite right, through its elegiac musicality to the moments of pure indulgent joy, Malfunctioning Teleprompter is a stunning experience.
Featuring members of Machine Translations and Disaster Plan, At Sea have mined years of musical experience to build this unique album. Taking their 2002 debut, ‘Listening To Some Other Songs About That’ as a starting point, Malfunctioning Teleprompter can be seen as a development in every direction at once: it’s expansive yet intimate; it’s challenging but fun; it has to be heard and heard again.
‘Malfunctioning Teleprompter’ is a pop record of a slippery proportions - from the immediacy of the two-and-a-half minute opener, ‘Drifting Aimlessly’, to the epic thirteen minute closer, ‘...But Not That Cold’ - the handles just don’t stick. It might fit in the post-rock box, or the folk-rock pile with its snatches of John Fahey, but what’s with the alt hip-hop? Is that an echo of Buck 65? And the euphonium chorus? The Frippatronics? The soccer anthem?!?
01 Drifting Aimlessly
02 Essential For Oxygen Production
03 The Baggage
04 World Cup 2002
05 My Vote For A Fascist State
06 There Was A Long Pause
07 Your Collarbone Is Extendeing
08 Smiling All The While
09 …But Not That Cold
UAR034 CD
Released: 2005-03-04
The second album from Melbourne’s best kept acoustic roots/rock secret, At Sea have delivered what could be the world’s first miscommunication concept album. From its constant thread of words not coming out quite right, through its elegiac musicality to the moments of pure indulgent joy, Malfunctioning Teleprompter is a stunning experience.
Featuring members of Machine Translations and Disaster Plan, At Sea have mined years of musical experience to build this unique album. Taking their 2002 debut, ‘Listening To Some Other Songs About That’ as a starting point, Malfunctioning Teleprompter can be seen as a development in every direction at once: it’s expansive yet intimate; it’s challenging but fun; it has to be heard and heard again.
‘Malfunctioning Teleprompter’ is a pop record of a slippery proportions - from the immediacy of the two-and-a-half minute opener, ‘Drifting Aimlessly’, to the epic thirteen minute closer, ‘...But Not That Cold’ - the handles just don’t stick. It might fit in the post-rock box, or the folk-rock pile with its snatches of John Fahey, but what’s with the alt hip-hop? Is that an echo of Buck 65? And the euphonium chorus? The Frippatronics? The soccer anthem?!?
01 Drifting Aimlessly
02 Essential For Oxygen Production
03 The Baggage
04 World Cup 2002
05 My Vote For A Fascist State
06 There Was A Long Pause
07 Your Collarbone Is Extendeing
08 Smiling All The While
09 …But Not That Cold