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Chicken Feed
Out of My Boxes de-fence

Article written by Matt H - Sep 1, 2009

Chicken Feed - GoGo Robochicken!

I’m not really a big fan of songs about scenes, whether celebratory or critical – all a bit too closed in. So opening with a hollering sneer at the fashionable gets the record off to something of a limp start. But as things go on it gets stronger. The collage of beats, sample melodies and changing stuttering tempos is carried forward into some more expansive ambient tunes. It’s itchy and unsettled, but still often pleasingly laid back stuff, most successful when resisting the trap of trying to do too much or chuck in one trick too many – Profit & Loss in particular overdoes it a bit. Napier’s slightly metallic acoustic guitar is pure folktronic ambience, as is the more sparkling Duck Egg Diner. Flowers adorns this with the sort of spoken word account of the every day relationship familiar from Arab Strap or James Yorkston (who he’s remixed in the past).

If all this doesn’t sound entirely convinced, then that’s about right. Not everything really grabs the attention or impresses. But there’s still plenty to pull you in and when it hits its stride – in that folktronic mid-section and closer, in the beautiful ebbs and flows of Rose Garden, and in the harsher Art of Noiseisms of Gusher it’s pretty much on the money and something of a laid back treat.

Links:
http://www.myspace.com/chickenfeed1
http://de-fencerecords.com/