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Album Review

Gordon Gano
Under The Sun Yep Roc Records

Article written by Ged M - Sep 16, 2009

Gardon Gano and the Ryans: Under The Sun

Gordon Gano was the scary voice of original folk-punksters the Violent Femmes and still maintains that quality on the surprisingly good album that he's made with brothers Brendan and Billy Ryan. Though it’s 25 years since the Femmes’ debut album, Gano hasn’t lost that snivelling, adenoidal voice or air of darkness, which show up in the bleak and introspective country ballad ‘Under The Sun’. But there’s also an air of playfulness on ‘Way That I Creep’, where he is “crappin’ and a-nappin’” to a Cramps-y rockabilly rhythm, and the slightly insane rock of ‘Red’ in which mothers punch other mothers in the nose. Best of all are the most pop-infused songs: ‘Wave And Water’ is bright Talking Heads-style tropicalia, all wah-wah guitar and trumpets, while ‘Oholah Oholibah’ is jaunty, bible-referencing folk-pop. Gano is still in vogue, as covers by the likes of Arcade Fire and Gnarls Barkley attest, and he's still as awkward and black-humoured as he was in 1983.

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