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I AM AN ELASTIC FIRECRACKER [2/11] NEW VINYL
Sold Date:
July 1, 2022
Start Date:
April 1, 2022
Final Price:
$36.16
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Product Description
Tripping Daisy: Tim DeLaughter (vocals, guitar); Wes Berggren (guitar); Mark Pirro (bass); Bryan Wakeland (drums, percussion).
Recorded at Water Music, Hoboken, New Jersey.
Wedged between Jane's Addiction and the Dead Milkmen, Tripping Daisy bring a humorous, guitar-packed edge back to rock. I AM AN ELASTIC FIRECRACKER slips from tongue-in-cheek cliches of leather-clad lovers to eerie reminders of dead friends, all in a diverse grab-bag of post-punk posturing.
The album's first single, "I Got A Girl," is reminiscent of the Dead Milkmen's "Punk Rock Girl," while the retro-esque layers of "Same Dress New Day" draw on pangs of grief, and sounds like an odd mixture of Byrds and Cure guitar tones. Throughout I AM AN ELASTIC FIRECRACKER, guitarists Tim DeLaughter and Wes Berggren rip styles from near flamenco to roaring grunge. The album also showcases DeLaughter's on-target lyrics ("brush off your anger, show off your hair") and Berggren's sympathetic lead guitar.
In a genre of easy-to-pigeonhole bands, Tripping Daisy's strength is its great range.
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