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| Track listing | 1. Myrtle - (live)
2. New Town - (live)
3. Ladle - (live)
4. Tarragon - (live)
5. Swelters - (live)
6. Satisfaction, (It's No Secret)
7. Little Vacation
8. Degenerate - (live)
9. Hot Seat - (live)
10. Giant Sands - (live)
11. Threads - (live)
12. See You Around - (live)
| | Details | | Playing time: | 45 min. | | Distributor: | EMI Music Distribution | | Recording type: | Studio | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | Personnel: Vic Chesnutt (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, harmonica, piano, keyboards); Mark LaFalce (vocals, acoustic guitar, drum, percussion); John DeVries (vocals, guitar, bass); Tina W. Chesnutt (vocals, bass, loops); Alex McManus (acoustic & electric guitars); Jimmy Davidson (acoustic guitar, guitar); John Keane, Garrett James (guitar); Todd Nance (loops).
Producers include: John Keane, Vic Chesnutt.
Engineers include: John Keane, Vic Chesnutt.
Recorded at Keane Studios Ltd. and Vic Chesnutt's home, Athens, Georgia; Rocket Shack Recording, West Park, New York; Full Moon Studio, Watkinsville, Georgia.
Like Palace mastermind Will Oldham, Vic Chesnutt filters country and folk influences through his own idiosyncratic lo-fi sensibilities and willfully obscure poeticism. And, like Palace, the result is a strangely evocative, highly personal vision that sounds like nothing else. Chesnutt's songs brim with gently attractive acoustic-guitar riffs and simple, straightforward melodies. The words they exist to support, though, employ an original, thorny language whose odd convolutions and contours are essential to the communication of Chesnutt's ideas about the human condition in all its imperfection.
On "Hot Seat" he sings of alienation in a visceral way: "I touch the telephone/It falls away/I think they call it empathy/But not this way." The sparse feel that dominates ABOUT TO CHOKE is interrupted by the anthemic "Degenerate," with its concrete images of existential angst: "Degenerate, washed by weather cycles/Degenerate, bleach the deadly nightshade." Throughout the album, Chesnutt seems like a man at odds with himself, desperate to communicate his sense of dissociation. In the closing "See You Around," he sings: "What am I supposed to say, `There's a bloody effigy on my wall and the complimentary carnation is falling apart'/And I ain't got time for the niceties."
| | Editorial reviews | 4 (out of 5) - ...His style is ramshacle folk, shot through with a punk spirit. The small voice, ever more tuneful...is wholly appropriate for the small, sometimes witty, slices of life...
Q (12/01/1996)
...ABOUT TO CHOKE is perhaps Chesnutt's most vibrant record yet. - Rating: A
Entertainment Weekly (01/10/1997)
6 (out of 10) - ...he still throws haymakers with words that sometimes accompany comely melodies, and his own voice is still his worst enemy...
Spin (12/01/1996)
4 Stars (out of 5) - ...a cockeyed charmer with a rare gift for acute observation....sweetly offbeat yarns and soul-searching annals of self-defeat....minimal arrangements that make the elemental radiance of his songs (and his noticeably strengthened singing) more plain...
Rolling Stone (12/12/1996)
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