Avi Buffalo-At Best Cuckold-CD-FLAC-2014-THEVOiD

                              DRIFT INTO THE VOID
 Info   
     Artist  | Avi Buffalo
     Title   | At Best Cuckold
     Genre   | Indie                                Format  | Album
     Source  | CD                                   Time    | 35:05
     Label   | Sub Pop                              Store   | 2014
     Catalog | SP 1047                              Rip     | 2020
     Bitrate | 895 kbps                             Size    | 237.41 MB
     Freq    | 44.1 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
 Tracks 
     01. So What                                                     3:23
     02. Memories Of You                                             4:11
     03. Can't Be Too Responsible                                    3:19
     04. Two Cherished Understandings                                1:42
     05. Overwhelmed With Pride                                      4:03
     06. Found Blind                                                 3:06
     07. She Is Seventeen                                            3:05
     08. Think It's Gonna Happen Again                               2:58
     09. Oxygen Tank                                                 5:28
     10. Won't Be Around No More                                     3:50
 Notes  
     Avigdor Zahner-Isenberg began writing songs as a high school
     sophomore, using the name Avi Buffalo as his musical alias. Within a
     year's time, the Long Beach native had put together a full band
     comprising drummer Sheridan Riley, bassist Arin Fazio, and
     keyboardist Rebecca Coleman. After playing several small shows, the
     teenagers won the support of engineer Aaron Embry, who welcomed Avi
     Buffalo into his home studio for a round of recording sessions. The
     band's quirky lo-fi pop songs also attracted attention from Sub Pop
     Records, and the label released Avi Buffalo's first single in late
     2009, followed by a self-titled full-length outing in April 2010...
     The second long-player from the West Coast indie pop confectioners
     led by Avigdor Zahner-Isenberg, whose fondness for buffalo wings
     yielded the nickname that would become the band's moniker, "At Best
     Cuckold" lays to rest any notions of a sophomore slump, offering up
     a dizzying ten-track set of warm and weird, immaculately crafted
     psych-pop gems that blend the shifty art rock of MGMT with the
     refined pop acumen of Sufjan Stevens. Designed and directed by
     Isenberg and recorded with Jay Pellicci (The Dodos, Deerhoof,
     Sleater-Kinney), "At Best Cuckold" begins innocuously enough with
     the breezy "So What," a California sunset-ready highway (soft)
     rocker that lulls the listener into submission, a trajectory that's
     furthered by the Thunderclap Newman-inspired "Memories of You" and
     the Neil Young-kissed "Two Cherished Understandings." '70s folk-pop
     and rock may form the foundation of Avi Buffalo's sound, but
     Isenberg isn't content with simply re-imagining the past, and "At
     Best Cuckold" is at its most triumphant when it circumvents pastiche
     and goes for the throat, both emotionally and sonically.
     A palpable sense of metaphysical dread accompanies two of the
     album's strongest cuts, the nervy and hallucinatory "Think It's
     Gonna Happen Again" and the sweetly unhinged "Oxygen Tank," the
     latter a densely packed rumination on anxiety that amalgamates the
     pop craftsmanship of Burt Bacharach with the cosmic wonder of Wayne
     Coyne, and that sense of agitation is what ultimately wins the
     listener over in the end. Isenberg and company were just high
     schoolers when Sub Pop released their debut in 2010, and while the
     rest of us went to work or college or worse after graduation, Avi
     Buffalo hit the road, but they too spent those formative years
     navigating the strange cognitive duality of post-high school young
     adulthood, and the sad, strange, and beautiful "At Best Cuckold"
     does an awfully nice job distilling that unease into audio form.

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