Al Larsen comincio' a trasmettere segnali sotto il nome di Some Velvet Sidewalk
alla fine degli anni '80, quando pubblico' la cassetta
From Playground Till Now (AL, 1988) e l'EP I Know (K, 1988).
Con altri due album, Appetite For Extinction (Communion, 1990),
registrato nel 1988, e Shipwreck (K, 1995),
registrato nel 1990 con Donna Dresch e altri (sul quale figurano
Boardwalkin', Eye Of The Storm e Unhitched),
e dopo aver pubblicato a proprio nome The Insect Way (Pebbles, 1991),
Larsen si affermo' nella scena di Olympia come un bislacco Jad Fair,
imbevuto dello spirito di Marc Bolan e Lou Reed.
A rivelarne il genio perverso e creativo, dopo il singolo Pumpkin Patch
(K), fu soprattutto l'album Avalanche (K, 1992), registrato finalmente
con un vero complesso.
Il trio da` mostra di buone potenzialita` rock nel
clangore vertiginoso di Loch Ness
e soprattutto nella lunga ode di Ice Cream Overdrive
(con i versi emblematici per quella generazione: "You're headed nowhere and it
feels like home"). Oltre che a indulgere nelle sue ferraginose bizzarrie,
Larsen raggiunge una buona combustione rock con il chiasso chitarristico di
No Real Home.
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Al Larsen launched the Some Velvet Sidewalk project at the end of the 1980s,
when he released the cassette
From Playground Till Now (AL, 1988) and the EP I Know (K, 1988).
With two more albums,
Appetite For Extinction (Communion, 1990),
recorded in 1988, and Shipwreck (K, 1995),
recorded in 1990 with the collaboration of Donna Dresch and others (featuring
Boardwalkin', Eye Of The Storm and Unhitched),
and after releasing under his name the album
The Insect Way (Pebbles, 1991),
Larsen established himself on the Olympia (Washington) scene as an
eccentric songwriter in the vein of Jad Fair, imbued with the decadent
spirit of Marc Bolan and Lou Reed.
The single Pumpkin Patch (K) resurrected Some Velvet Sidewalk.
Larsen's pervertedly creative genius was fully revelead by
the album Avalanche (K, 1992), at last recorded by a real band.
The trio starts off confident and belligerent with the
frantic boogie of Avalanche and the
devilish New York Dolls power-pop of Loch Ness, fast and ripping songs
that are matched later on by
the breathtaking rock and roll of No Real Home.
Larsen does not indulge too often in his amateurish quirkiness.
His new model seems to be Jonathan Richman, echoed both in the rant on pow-wow
rhythm of Peaches and in the anthemic Modern Lovers ode of
Ice Cream Overdrive
(with the famous generational lines: "You're headed nowhere and it
feels like home").
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