Comments on: Review: Call Me Lightning, “Soft Skeletons”

By: chuck

chuck — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:36:47 +0000

I do like this album a lot. However, I don’t feel that it flows like their first one does. Maybe I need to let it grow on me a bit (I heard many roughs while they were recording it, but just got my own copy on Saturday), because sometimes it hits me like “a collection of individual-yet-similar songs” moreso than “a cohesive album with peaks and valleys.” I guess we agree on that.

Also, Shane told me that when they recorded the first album, he brought in “Back in Black” and told them to make his drums sound like that. I personally don’t get it, but he was waaaay stoked on it. This new album has 100% redeemed whatever tangent thought of his that was, but in all honesty, he’s the only drummer I know personally who could produce mindblowingly above-adequate sounds if you just recorded his kit with two mics in a live-sounding room. With that said, you should seriously look into recording with him at his home studio sometime.

By: yaledelay

yaledelay — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:11:19 +0000

well I think you messed that up because Albini also plays a Travis Bean guitar which is basically all aluminum (its painted to look like wood) so its an easy mistake…

also this is why he uses that weird guitar strap, those things are really heavy…

By: hotshotrobot

hotshotrobot — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:37:09 +0000

It\’s a Saturday, so i just might make the trip, Borch.

And by the way…i\’m originally from the Appleton/Green Bay area, so pointing out Milwaukee\’s lack of a football team when iÂ grew up deep in Packer country does NOTHING! MUHAHAHA!

By: hotshotrobot

hotshotrobot — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:35:07 +0000

I changed it to “metal.” I figure if you’re picking that out, real Albini-groupies will castrate me for screwing that up.

I would have nitpicked on your LJ but I canâ€™t as you got rid of comments

[nelson]Ha-ha![/nelson]

By: Borch

Borch — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:34:21 +0000

Nice review. CML is new to me, but I feel compelled to check them out in Chicago on March 10th at Subterranean. Why don’t you come down from Milwaukee for the show so we can discuss the things Chicago has that Milwaukee doesn’t. Like professional football, for example. See you there?

By: yaledelay

yaledelay — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:16:56 +0000

I would have nitpicked on your LJ but I can’t as you got rid of comments… but I am pretty sure Albinis picks are not aluminum… as strings are nickel plated steal, and aluminum is a very soft metal where as nickel is a very hard metal, which would mean the picks would breakdown quickly…