Rasputina: The Lost & Found

It’s weird how I always forget how much I love Rasputina until I listen to them. I have most of their songs/ albums, and this review is for Rasputina’s album “The Lost & Found” released November 30, 2000 on Instinct Records (my birthday, another reason I love this mini-album).

1. Rock and Roll
2. All Tomorrow’s Parties
3. This Little Piggy
4. Tourniquet
5. Wish You Were Here

Rock and Roll immediately starts with a fun beat and then the cellos come in, imitating guitars. Gritty vocals tell you how much the group misses rock an roll and how long it’s been since they’ve had it. Let me tell you, Melora Creager provides the sound perfect for a rock song. My favorite part is the “Ayyohhey’s” and “Ohyeah’s” near the end.
Grade: 7

In contrast to the previous song, All Tomorrow’s Parties sound like a hangover morning (not that I would know, I’m just saying my thoughts). Melora Creager voice is so low. I wonder if she’s a tenor, but I’m unsure because she can get some clear higher notes.
Grade: 8

This Little Piggy was giggle inducing. The vocals are really the nursery rhyme, for the most part, until Melora Creager asks questions about the fate of the pigs. It’s a very cute/dark track.
Grade: 8

Tourniquet was my least favorite song on this mini-album, it’s just…boring. The cello pitches and their distortion are just annoying, and the drum beats that sometimes come up don’t seem to fit. This song jumps around far too much, and the lyrics are confusing: “I am your tourniquet.” Just not a very good track in my opinion.
Grade: 3

The final track Wish You Were Here is a cover of the same song by Pink Floyd. And it is BEAUTIFUL. I cannot say how good it is. It is definitely the most classically influenced song I have ever heard from them, and this is obvious in the beginning of the song. If you listen to onesong on this mini-album, let it be Wish You Were Here.
Grade: 9

Over-all grade: 7 out of 10

Next review: Cat Stevens, “Foreinger”

 

It begins…

I tried to tell myself I didn’t need another blog, let alone one about music. So here we go:

My name is Rachel. I’m here to review music, that’s all. I may provide a download of one song per album, but that’s only if you’re really lucky, and it’ll probably be a song you end up hating. I just want to show the world what kinds of great music is hiding. I’ll post whenever I feel like it. And you know what would be really neat? If you donated reviews/music for me to review. or just give suggestions like: “Hey u suk poo.” I enjoy those kinds of things.
I feel like I’m coming off as sort of cynical, which was not the intention. Well, no matter what, enjoy the music, buy it, download it, listen, whatever you feel.

First review: Rasputina, “The Lost & Found”