Bowling for Blood

In honor of a series of serious bowling ventures and the film There Will Be Blood, March bares it's provocative title, Bowling for Blood. This month's compilation features a rather mind numbing quality, often anticipated for driving or sitting on a carpet and puzzling/maze solving/coloring with a few jems peaking over the steady melodic calmness. The CD starts with a kind of upbeat tempo getting one a little excited but then slows down with The Floor is Made of Lava and Dizzee Rascal interrupting the pace. While the beats don't really pump up the compilation they add a good contrast as the tracks quickly return to a slow pace. The CD finishes with it's usual two bonus tracks, one of which is a repeat artist and the other is a good smile inducer.

Overall, the CD has a lot of really great melodic tracks causing a bit of a too much of a good thing conundrum and will probably find itself hidden in the bottom of a glove compartment that always serves as a pleasant surprise.

Tracklist as follows:

1. Five Years Time - Noah & the Whale Just one of those songs that hits the message right on the nose and leaving you with a kind of, "who cares about tomorrow? Let's enjoy today" feeling. It just makes you giddy and wishing you were meeting someone for the first time all over again.

2. Hang Them All - Tapes 'n' Tapes A track that gets you jiggling a bit and ready to just downright boogie at the bridge and then the song falls short on the chorus but is still great to nod your head to, strongly.

5. Bodyguard - Dawn Landes A female voice filling a bit of an absence of the feminine influence in the mix.

6. Gold Day - Sparklehorse Just one really good chill track.

7. Spiders, Snakes - A Weather A lyrically very strong chill track.

11. Where Da G's (El-P Remix) - Dizzee Rascal Sometimes people need to be put in their place and others need to just bob their head in agreement... All I hear is hype!

12. I Need You - Lionel Neykov

13. Everybody But Me - Lykke Li For those days, those days...

15. Ripchord - Rilo Kiley Just a sweet melody.

Bonus Tracks
That's What I Like - Spottiswoode & His Friends
In the Sunshine - Lionel Neykov

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"I've loved so many of the ChipperDemon CDs from the class of '08, but the first half of this mix boasts the single best run of any of 'em. Even with my favorite ChipperDemon outings like "Duets of Dodging Acorns" and "I Wouldn't Buy You A Sweater If It Came With A Gas Card", there were always a few songs that stood out above the rest, but every last one of these first ten tracks is so incredible that I'm kind of at a loss what to jot down on the ballot. I'm not really the type to voluntarily slap on an arbitrary rating, but there's nothing less than an 8.5 or a 9 in this half. It starts off as just untethered pop euphoria, and even some of the slower songs that follow are still sweet and lilting. "The Floor Is Made of Lava" might be the best dance track from the ChipperDemon archives, and that's saying something. I'm really head over heels in love with "Trouble", and if I had a pistol aimed at my head and had to pick just a single favorite, I think this'd be it. The second half didn't grab me quite as much at first, although I warmed up to most of them with another listen. (I really wanted to mash the 'skip track' button my first time through Dizzee Rascal, but I didn't mind it during a second pass.) "Ages and Stages" would probably get the nod as my favorite from this half of the CD, with Rilo Kiley's "Ripchord" not falling far behind. I started to use "sunny" to describe what a great closer "In the Sunshine" is until I realized how repetitive that'd be. Yet another really amazing effort, and I continue to be impressed." posted by Adam on Friday, April 10th, 2009 at 3:56 PM.

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