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Buzzle Bee [VINYL]

~ High Llamas
4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Vinyl (27 Nov 2000)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Drag City
  • ASIN: B000051763
  • Other Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 635,674 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Passing Bell
2. Pat Mingus
3. Get into the Galley Shop
4. Switch Pavilion
5. Tambourine Day
6. Sleeping Spray
7. New Broadway
8. Bobby's Court

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Amazon.co.uk Review
For many, Sean O'Hagen--the bright-eyed retro-pop connoisseur who has beavered, since the early 1990s, behind the tag of the High Llamas--has never topped the elaborate, otherwordly psychedelia of 1994's Gideon Gaye. Like close contemporaries the Boo Radleys, there has always been the lingering suspicion that O'Hagen is a desperately undervalued pop voice--but with High Llamas albums still materialising as surely as warm summer days give way to brisk autumn evenings, it's difficult to herald the blossoming of their fifth effort, Buzzle Bee, with anything approaching a fanfare. With guest backing vocals from Mary Hansen of occasional collaborators Stereolab and all the old retro-delic influences fixed gently-but-firmly in place, O'Hagen's muse shows signs of being irritatingly inflexible. While this doesn't quite bring the Bacharach-gone-Krautrock space fairytale of "New Broadway" crashing down to earth, it does tend to leave this album's more prosaic moments--such as the exercise in easy-listening tedium that is "Sleeping Spray"--trampling through the same old leafy glades without any clear direction. More ideas, please. --Louis Pattison

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5.0 out of 5 stars Actually it's their best, 10 Feb 2001
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.... Unlike most of today's bloated musical posers, Sean O'Hagan is a real artist on his own creative track and if that involves becoming more obsessive, more miniaturist, revisiting the same territory again and again, that's fine by me. Each of their albums gets subtler, cleverer, closer and closer to whatever strange aesthetic goal he's heading towards. I think 'Gideon Gaye' is their most overrated album - the best track, 'Checking In and Checking Out', just sounds like The Eagles on a good day - and everything they've done since has been a step forward. This album contains both great pop songs ('Get into the Galley Shop') and amazingly moving instrumentals ('Switch Pavilion') and I bet Steve Reich would give his right arm to write something as haunting as the last few minutes on the record. I thought 'Snowbug' was as good as anyone could get but this is even better. Don't listen to your critics, Sean: you're following a beautiful path and most of us are coming with you.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Just My Feeling, 21 May 2001
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It's probably critical overkill to point out that the High Llamas are the prime inheritors of the lush soundscapes that Brian Wilson and Burt Bacharach perfected (each in his own way) during the '60s and early '70s. On the other hand, it's also abundantly obvious that the English quartet never seems to tire of mining Bachrach's hits and Wilson's masterworks ¡X namely Pet Sounds and the aborted Smile album ¡X for new ideas. Buzzle Bee might just be the group's most out-there production yet, as the Llamas churn out eight tracks full of gorgeous symphonic-pop arrangements and aloof, lazy melodies that dart in and out of all kinds of studio tinkering. If this is, in fact, something Wilson and Bacharach would have made, they would have had to have made it while under the influence of some very potent psychedelics. Still, too much of it sounds like background buzz, the sort of stuff that Wilson rightly left on the cutting room floor during the Pet Sounds sessions. What would be really interesting is if these guys struck some sort of sitcom-worthy bargain with their heroes: The Llamas would teach Wilson and Bacharach to be hip, if those two would lend the Llamas some hooks.
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