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CD Review: Mo Beauty

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Band: Alec Ounsworth
Label: Anti-
Release: October 20, 2009

1. “Modern Girl” – 8.3
2. “Bones in the Grave” – 7.9
3. “Holy, Holy, Holy Moses” – 9.2
4. “That Is Not My Home” – 9.5
5. “Idiots in the Rain” – 8.2
6. “South Philadelphia” – 8.4
7. “What Fun.” – 8.2
8. “Me And You Watson” – 7.8
9. “Obscene Queen Bee #2” – 9.4
10. “When You’ve No Eyes” – 9.0

Comments: Flashy Python > Alec Ounsworth. How can an alter-ego of a man be better than the man himself? It’s possible and evident on this album. There seems to be a lot more dispiriting nooks and crannies on Mo Beauty; a greater dichotomy of styles than on Skin and Bones. The quasi-minimalism that reigns on tracks like “Obscene Queen Bee #2,” “That Is Not My Home,” and “Holy, Holy, Holy Moses” is Ounsworth at his best. For such a highly anticipated album, I am disappointed.

Grade: 8.6

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Band: Flashy Python (Alec Ounsworth of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)
Release: 2009

1. “Let Us Hallucinate Together” – 9.2
2. “The Lady Is A Ghost” – 9.7
3. “Ichiban Blues” – 9.2
4. “Skin and Bones” – 9.4
5. “Obscene Queen Bee” – 9.8
6. “In the Darkness” – 9.6
7. “Cattle’s New Clothes” – 9.1
8. “Avalon’s Snake Breath” – 10.0

Comment: If anything can be said about Alec Ounsworth it’s that there is really no limit to what he can produce. His voice can work wonders on just about any song. The album is filled with what I would like to call psychedelic folk…it’s more intricate than what we know as folk and it’s faster and deeper than pure modern neo-psychedelia.

Final Grade: 9.5 out of 10