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Title: Detach Me From My Head
Artist: Feeding Fingers
Genre: Post Punk / Indie / Electronic
Release Date: 28th September 2010
Label: Tephramedia / Stickfigure Records



Album Review

With their previous second effort ‘Baby Teeth’, the American outfit FEEDING FINGERS opened the gates to their own little cinema for the second time, letting interested people share in the sonic movie, feeding on the surreal lyric visions of creative head Justin Curfman. As for me, I was one of the people who became introduced to FEEDING FINGERS with their second-born ‘Baby Teeth’ that took me away literally, and I’m still visiting this other world regularly. The third offspring that the group, which has a new member on bass with Kris Anderson, will release at the end of September is called ‘Detach Me From My Head’ and if you’ve checked the preview you might have noticed the difference in sound that is distinctive for most of the album that starts right away with the title track, phasing in on gloomy strings, then clear-cut beats of a drum and ethereal guitar chords catch you quite off guard.

A very powerful structure surfaces and then Justin’s unmistakable voice comes in and starts delivering the cryptic lyrics. And while you can’t make sense of every line some bear strong pictures like “Umbrellas cover the world / and we sleep in the rain”. These umbrellas were made by us so they would hide what we don’t want to see: The world is crying because of us! ‘I Am A Brutal Little Boy’ drives a faster pace with a grooving, dirty rhythm while the story of a strange little boy unfolds who’s getting punished for just not being like the others. At least I think that’s the plot but you can never be sure. ‘My Imagined House’ pushes you into the corridors of a decaying life using metaphors of highly frail bodies breaking to document how fast it can be over or turned into a sorry shade of what it once was. The track builds from crawling drums and Justin’s using his deep voice and is making the song sound even more hopeless.

Sometimes, things don’t turn out as we want them to and “The light that we thought would have melted all our broken toys” ceases long before it can accomplish its duty. Some things just are not meant to be. ‘Asleep On Softened Fists’ brings on a reduced electronic pulse as rhythm over which repetitive bass and guitar are being played. As simple as it is, it is a brilliant track. With ‘One Year’ the album features one instrumental piece of piano about the fleeting nature of time and how fast it all runs through our fingers. The cold humming of a machine welcomes you to ‘I Promise To Build You A Machine’ before rhythm and piano, think I’ve even heard an acoustic guitar but it’s not so clear, turn it into a tableau, painted with grey feelings of emptiness and notions not to be needed anymore. “Goodbye Everyone”, says this guy before retreating to “A grave for objects in a place where no one takes them home”

The feeling of being insignificant, not being good enough for anyone to love can be a heavy weight on your shoulders and wear you out. That must’ve been the state of mind of the protagonist when this song was created. He expresses how he’s not good enough to keep anyone close to himself for long. They always leave sooner or later. As sad as it sounds but in a way he’s still lucky. Some miserable beings never manage to get anyone that close to them, damned to walk the path alone forever, watching how only others find their luck. Indeed, a sad ending made to the album with ‘The Stupid Things We Did’.

‘Detach Me From My Head’ is the next scenery of the movie, given life to by the abstract thoughts of Justin Curfman. Some pictures are too coded to decipher now, but maybe they will do in time. The music has gone through a shift towards an overall clearer and detailed sound as opposed to the deliberately old-school style of ‘Baby Teeth’. Also I love the power some songs like ‘Detach Me From My Head’ or ‘I Am A Brutal Little Boy’ radiate. Can’t recommend this one enough!


Tracklist

01. Detach Me From My Head - 3:43
02. I Am A Brutal Little Boy - 3:15
03. My Imagined House - 4:32
04. Asleep On Softened Fists - 3:54
05. Vestigal Life - 3:16
06. One Year - 1:35
07. This World Starves For Lonely Girls - 4:29
08. I Promise To Build You A Machine - 4:07
09. All Of My Prisons - 4:32
10. Unfinished Stories - 3:22
11. The Stupid Things We Did - 4:03


Line-Up

Justin Curfman - Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Keys
Josh Lamar - Bass, Keys
Danny Hunt - Percussion


Website

http://feedingfingers.com/ / http://www.myspace.com/thefeedingfingers


Cover Picture




Rating


Music: 9
Sound: 9
Extras: -
Total: 9 / 10


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