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Chained to the Chariot

Rotary Downs

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Released: Oct 2006
Label: Rotary Downs
Taking a page from pre-millennial, post-modern poppers like Beck and Soul Coughing, Rotary Downs reels freely between quizzical and intellectual. Chained to the Chariot, the New Orleans quartet's third full-length, pivots pedal steel, trumpet and organ on top of grandly unpredictable arrangements; the fun is watching which way these songs fall. Singer James Marler sounds like has been taking double shots of thesaurus, unraveling densely packed rhymes in his abstracted lyrics. Too lo-fi to be baroque, too catchy to be experimental, songs like "G-7 Hit!" and "A Feast in Squalor" swerve into woozy grooves but don't stay for long.
- Jonathan Zwickel
Rotary Downs - Chained to the Chariot 2006-11-15
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    False Protection
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    Sing Like the Sun
    Sing Like the Sun
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    Big Parade
    Big Parade
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    G-7 Hit!
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    Holiday Home
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    B/W
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    A Feast In Squalor
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    Djinni Stomp
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    Pedigree
    Pedigree
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    Ma Lion Races Ruin
    Ma Lion Races Ruin
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    Black Town
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    Old Museum
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    Lantern
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    Body of an Outlaw
    Body of an Outlaw
℗ 2006 Rotary Downs