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Track Listing
1. Shining Hour, The
2. Jupiter and Teardrop
3. Fuzzy
4. Wish You Well
5. Hook, The
6. Soft Wolf Tread
7. Stars N' Stripes
8. Dixie Drug Store
9. America Snoring
10. Grace
11. You Just Have to Be Crazy
| Details | | Producer: | Paul Kimble | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Grant Lee Buffalo: Grant Lee Phillips (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars); Paul Kimble (vocals, piano, bass); Joey Peters (drums, percussion).
Recorded at Machine Elf, North Hollywood, California and Brilliant Studios, San Francisco, California.
The California-based trio Grant Lee Buffalo emerged with one of the most confident and accomplished debuts of the 1990s with FUZZY (1993). Singer and lyricist Grant-Lee Phillips paints visions of a mythic America that recall the Band, while the interplay between whomping guitar chords and gentle acoustic sounds is reminiscent of another Canadian import who seems quintessentially American: Neil Young. But with all their classic influences, the group makes their own very individual sound, creating unique, sepia-tinged portraits littered with such images of Americana as the boot of John Wilkes Booth and Jackie Wilson's lonely teardrops.
FUZZY teems with fine songs. The urgent opener "The Shining Hour," makes the most of a simple skiffle beat and a lonely piano as it traipses from the Civil War to Al Capone and back to King Tut. On the plaintive title track, Philips moves from a hushed lower register to an aching, Lennon-esque falsetto in a tale of hurt featuring searing slide guitar. The easygoing story-song "Dixie Drug Store" which sounds like Bob Dylan's "Isis" re-imagined in New Orleans, segues into the snarling "America Snoring." "Stars and Stripes" and "The Hook" are sublime and unsettling gems. A stunning first record.
Industry Reviews
Highly Recommended - ...a very listenable, at times quite engaging record that often evokes vintage John Lennon...file this one under very promising...
Spin (03/01/1993)
Included in Q's list of `The 50 Best Albums Of 1993' - ...a rollercoaster ride through the wreckage of the American Dream...
Q (01/01/1994)
4 Stars - Excellent - ...Suede had better look to their laurels...[Grant Lee Buffalo has] a warped, raffishly theatrical folkiness...
Q (08/01/1993)
Ranked #9 in Melody Maker's list of the `Albums Of The Year' for 1993 - ...With its hellfire preacher yowl and desolate arangements, FUZZY tore through the year like a comet....
Melody Maker (01/01/1994)
8 - Excellent - ...One of the most improbably cool, perhaps even massive new bands of the year...
NME (06/26/1993)
Ranked #50 in New Musical Express' list of `The Top 50 LPs Of 1993' - ...You don't get many like this: a debut album suffused with a swaggering air of precocious authority...
NME (12/25/1993)
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