Oulipo Saliva
Download links and information about Oulipo Saliva by Angil. This album was released in 2008 and it belongs to Alternative genres. It contains 14 tracks with total duration of 51:29 minutes.
Artist: | Angil |
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Release date: | 2008 |
Genre: | Alternative |
Tracks: | 14 |
Duration: | 51:29 |
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Tracks
[Edit]No. | Title | Length |
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1. | Do Not Think, Pt. 1 | 0:24 |
2. | Narrow Minds | 4:14 |
3. | In Purdah | 4:00 |
4. | You Most (Thirst Part) | 1:35 |
5. | Took No Drugs, Had No Drink (It All Was In Our Minds) | 5:00 |
6. | Do Not Think, Pt. 2 | 0:56 |
7. | Trying to Fit | 3:02 |
8. | Kids | 5:22 |
9. | You Most, Pt. 2 | 1:51 |
10. | Lift Trip to Mars | 5:05 |
11. | Do Not Think, Pt. 3 | 1:06 |
12. | You Most (Third Part, As Far As I Know) | 5:42 |
13. | Sylvia Plath, Libby and Small Ghost | 6:26 |
14. | Final List | 6:46 |
Details
[Edit]On the one hand, Angil & the Hiddntracks are out to play a large conceptual joke with Oulipo Saliva — the French band's stated purpose was to make an album without using the letter "e" in the lyrics or, in fact, using the E chord at all. Scrabble players may find ways around the former problem in more challenging games but that aside, Oulipo Saliva plays well enough without knowledge of that particular self-limitation, if one has an addiction to spare post-punk pop and its many spinoffs and paths. Acts ranging from early Orange Juice and the Young Marble Giants to Antena to, in its occasional weaving together of chamber jazz arrangements and polite distance, some of the feeling of Hex-era Bark Psychosis, all feed into Angil & the Hiddntracks' aesthetic, not to mention a melancholic and winsome accompanying mini-comic book/lyric sheet. Songs like the piano-led clap-along "Took No Drugs, Had No Drink" and "Lift Trip to Mars" sound like escapees from a twisted cabaret, with the appropriately off-center feeling, while Angil's own very distinctly British-accented singing adds an arch art-pop air that steers away from smoothness for a more questioning, puzzled feeling (reaching a kind of apotheosis in the end lyrics on the album's conclusion, "Final List," with expletives sung with calm but vivid passion). The mournful string and woodwind swell that combines with drums to make up most of the conclusion of "In Purdah" — though the latter drops away to make a sparer finale — and the brass and reed start to "You Most (Third Part, as Far as I Know)" further stand out on this enjoyable release.