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Recommended by us on 22nd October 2010
...according to our Business Lady on Thu 21 Oct, 2010.
What's going on with Pocahaunted? Has everyone left now? The press release explains that this is the final document of the band in 'triforce-vocal' mode so I'm assuming something is going on. Anyway, this was recorded at the end of their three week US tour by Fucking Champs/Nation Of Ulyssess axeman Tim Green and documents the band on damn fine tour form. A-side 'Threshold' winds itself up slowly with ghostly guitar ambience and rolling beats before shifting gear to full on kraut rock mode. It's probably the best tune I recall hearing by the band. B-side 'Echolocation' starts beautifully with loose bass and cute keys teasing the listener in a slow dance dub jam and it's even better than the A-side. Anyone interested in Pocahaunted is gonna get this one due to it being the last release by this line-up but if you've not heard Pocahaunted before then this would be a great place to start. Going out on a creative high is certainly no bad thing. Great 7".
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, bands to solo projects it s all the same arc. And here it is, the final RIP action by star-crossed NNF institution Pocahaunted and the only recorded document of the final triforce-vocal line-up featuring Leyna Noel on keys/crooning/dance magic. On the final day of their 3-week spring 10 US tour, the band booked a session at Louder Studios in San Francisco with Tim Green (Nation Of Ulyssess/Fucking Champs, etc) and it marks Poca s first & last time working in a proper studio setting. The results blaze/amaze. Threshold was written on the road and melts through a river mistress intro before revving into a tense kraut-funk burner with catchy (and surprisingly non-FX-soaked) femme-soul vocables cascading down from every side. The B, Echolocation, is a tranced ghost-reggae comedown ballad and classic slow-dance live staple. Nimble bass maneuvering by whimsy princess Diva Dompe leads the melody up through the choruses into the torch-song bridge climax that leaves everybody on the floor. Roll the credits, this is the end. Black vinyl 7 inches in sleeves with collage/paint artwork by Manda B Brown and Diva Dompe, plus a photocopied insert. Edition of 500.
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