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Red-Eyed Soul (CD)

By: Inferno Friendship Society (Artist) and World (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Red-Eyed Soul (CD) Album By Inferno Friendship Society (Ar...
1   Brother Of The Major Of Bridgewater
2   Velocity Of Love, The
3   Your Younger Man
4   Only Anarchists Are Pretty
5   Let's Steal Everything
6   Annie The Imaginary Lawyer
7   Me V. Angry Mob
8   Hothouse Flowers
9   Paul Robeson
10   Me And The Mad Monkettes
11   Please My Favorite Don't Be Sad
12   Fiend In Wien
13   Jerusalem Boys
14   Devil's Ball, The
15   So Long To The Circus
 

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Spin (p.103) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[They] play oft-frantic cabaret punk with heavy klezmer touches."

Title Note

Audio Mixer: Franz Nicolay.

Photographer: Dave Sine.

The fifth full-length release by art-punk collective World/Inferno Friendship Society is just as enjoyable and intermittently frustrating as their other albums, but Red-Eyed Soul finds the Brooklyn-based outfit both mellowing slightly and moving tentatively into more commercial waters. Opening track and first single "Brother of the Mayor of Bridgewater" is a straight-up pop song that, with its infectious horn riffs and scat-sung chorus, would have fit comfortably on Dexy's Midnight Runners' Searching for the Young Soul Rebels. It's followed by the even more accessible and catchy "Velocity of Love," which has -- no kidding -- actual hit single potential, like with radio play and everything, and "Your Younger Man," is a dead ringer for Look Sharp!-era Joe Jackson, right down to the pissed-off sneer in Jack Terricloth's lead vocal. After that, things settle into more familiar territory, mixing big-band ska riffs with '70s punk guitars and Terricloth's arch vocal style and sardonic, politically charged and historically minded lyrics. The aforementioned frustrations come on songs like "Only Anarchists Are Pretty," which stretches out a clever lyric and catchy tune about two-full minutes too long, and the 30-second acoustic toss-off "Please My Favorite Don't Be Sad," which strands a promising song in a barely finished state. For longterm fans, there's the minor annoyance that the album's 15 tracks include the entirety of 2005's Speak of Brave Men and Me Vs. Angry Mob EPs. Those nits aside, Red-Eyed Soul is a breakthrough for the planet's most confusingly named band, one that puts the group at an interesting artistic crossroads between their anarchic punk roots and the '80s pop sheen that covers this album's most interesting songs. ~ Stewart Mason

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