Detailed item info | Track listing | 1. Hello Resolven
2. Good Man Is Easy to Kill, A
3. What Will You Do When Your Suntan Fades?
4. Gene Autry
5. Silver Lining
6. Popular Mechanics For Lovers
7. Gravity's Bringing Us Down
8. Hey Brother
9. I'll Be Your Lampshade
10. Cruel Minor Change
11. Burned by the Sun
12. Night Is the Day Turned Inside Out
| | Details | | Producer: | Beulah, Miles Kurosky | | Distributor: | Ryko Distribution | | Recording type: | Studio | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | Beulah includes: Bill Evans, Miles Kurosky, Steve La Follette,
Patrick Noel, Steve St. Chin, Danny Sullivan, Bill Swan.
Additional personnel includes: Roger Moutenot (12-string guitar); Wallace
Harvey (violin); Jason Kleinberg (viola); Ben Riseling (tenor saxophone);
John Peters (trumpet); John Vanderslice (Moog synthesizer); Tommy
Casey (vibraphone); Eli Crews (upright bass); Andrew Borger (drums, saw).
Recorded at Tiny Telephone Studios, San Francisco, California.
Through their first two critically praised records, San Francisco's Beulah proved themselves an impossible band to categorize with an appealing medley of breezy indie pop, desolate plains-style country, and a hypnotic clash of lo-fi with lush orchestration. Their third effort, 2001's THE COAST IS NEVER CLEAR is no exception. "A Good Man is Easy to Kill" opens on a flute loop out of Gil Scott-Heron before unleashing a cavalcade of sound incorporating Pavement's off-key/-kilter poetry, the Free Design's musical madcappery, and Love's horn-laden poppiness. Meanwhile, simple yet oblique rejoinders of modern neuroses (such as "you're so bitter, you think he's sweet") abound on a deft pop adventure of an indie rock album.
| | Editorial reviews | ...A richly melodious concoction...
CMJ (08/20/2001)
...Should inspire nostalgia for well-crafted pop - and wrinkle-raising grins. - Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly (09/21/2001)
7 out of 10 - ...A playful retro-pop event full of shifting moods and fueled by sharp songwriting and perfectly placed and wonderfully executed trumpet work...
Alternative Press (11/01/2001)
8 out of 10 - ...Bubblegum perfection by the bongload....Kurosky finally has the audio toys to jazz up his Technicolor sandbox....never-never land rarely has sounded so alive...
Spin (10/01/2001)
...A timeless West Coast 'Weltschmerz' - uplifting, exuberant gloom. Tremendous.
Mojo (10/01/2001)
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