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Gideon Gaye

~ High Llamas
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  • Audio CD (1 Sep 2000)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: V2
  • ASIN: B000007WX5
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 154,344 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Giddy Strings
2. Dutchman
3. Giddy and Gay
4. Easy Rod List
5. Checking In, Checking Out
6. Goat Strings
7. Up in the Hills
8. Goat Looks On
9. Taog Skool No
10. Little Collie
11. Track Goes By
12. Let's Have Another Look
13. Goat [Instrumental]

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This is the High Llamas' masterpiece. GIDEON GAYE is more overtly Brian Wilson-inspired than 1996's HAWAII. The gorgeous "The Goat Looks On" even bears a marked similarity to PET SOUNDS' "Let's Go Away For A While". But the album also bears the influence of psychedelic-era Beatles, the unsettling Gallic pop of Serge Gainsbourg, pure AM-radio bubblegum, Stereolab's organ drones, and, on the 14-minute "Track Goes By",jazz-tinged explorations.
While HAWAII might hang together better as an entire album, the top-calibre songwriting onGIDEON GAYE-from the gentle, cello-powered sway of "Giddy And Gay" and the Steely Dan-like "Checking In, Checking Out" to the near-orchestral "The Dutchman"-is some of singer/songwriter Sean O'Hagan's finest work. These songs finally give the album an edge over its successor. GIDEON GAYE is one of the very best albums of the '90s.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The most beautiful album the Beach Boys never made, 15 Jan 2000
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Sean O'Hagan, lead singer, songwriter and general head-honcho will probably hate me for saying it, but the spirit of the Beach Boys circa "Pet Sounds" infuses every moment of this glorious album. Perfect pop tinged with touches of 60's psychedelia, string arrangements to die for and, in "Checking In, Checking Out", Sean and his Llamas have created the most memorably infectious song of the nineties. I know they are (understandably) sick to death of the BB comparisons, especially as they have now moved on and widened their sonic canvas, but with Gideon Gaye, the High Llamas made a follow up to "Surf's Up" that Brian Wilson would be proud of. I had no intention of writing any reviews for this amazon site, but when I saw that no one had said a word about this woefully neglected album, I just had to have my say. And while you're at it, check out their other albums; never less than pure aural pleasure.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Sublime stuff indeed., 7 Nov 2001
A record of genuine beauty and languid charm, the High Llamas' "Gideon Gaye", seems unfairly forgotten, though its very obscurity perhaps adds to the sense of discovery one has in listening to it.
The influence of Brian Wilson circa "Pet Sounds" and "Smile" is evident, and this influence is superbly used, it must be said.
A consistency of mood is evoked, and it works superbly as a piece of music for its 48-minute duration. That's not to say certain tracks don't stand out, they do; "Checking In, Checking Out", "The Dutchman" and the absolutely glorious epic "Track Goes By", are all particularly sublime.
It goes without saying this album is heartily recommended; have no illusions, this is spellbinding stuff.
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