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Earthside Down by Robert Deeble
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fave it Modern Folk | Poetry
11 tracks | 58 minutes
Released Apr 2004
on Jackson Rubio
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"Wistful folk-pop, sparsely arranged, gracefully performed, and achingly beautiful to behold" -The Santa Barbara independent.
Editorial review
Robert Deeble's second album, Earthside Down, is a solid hour of arty sulking. That's not necessarily a cut on his songwriting -- the record displays a definite talent for mood-setting, a knack for offbeat arrangements and a good ear for the mellow and melancholy. It also displays a dismal lack of variety. Deeble's quiet, minor key acoustic guitar is well augmented by rich cello and appropriately sparse, treble-heavy percussion. At its best the album sounds like a severely restrained acoustic Radiohead record, but the muted melodies are almost identical to one another, and Deeble's droning mumbles are undermiked and quickly irritating. The album would benefit much from an occasional major chord and the odd increase in tempo. Deeble has yet to learn the art of sustaining a mood without sacrificing tonal shifts. Overall, the album is the musical equivalent of that quiet guy you dated in college who spent all his time in the corner of the coffee shop smoking cigarettes -- at first his mysterious melancholia seems compelling, and you're drawn in by the sheer effort of trying to understand his mumbling. But by the time you really get to know him, you're interrupting every conversation shouting, "What? What? I can't hear what you're saying! What are you saying? Would you please lighten up?" ~ Darryl Cater, All Music Guide
Bio / Background
Robert Deeble's music discourages comparison but his imagery and approach on this record conjures influences of "Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave and Lou Reed, all wound up in a tight little ball" (Live Magazine).
"Earthside Down," (1999 Jackson Rubio), is darker in tone than many of Deeble previous recordings yet with a certain weightlessness. The Santa Barbara Independent penned it as: "Wistful folk-pop, sparsely arranged, gracefully performed, and achingly beautiful to behold."
Produced with the partnership of drummer Stephen Hodges (Tom Waits, Mike Watt) and Anthony Arvizu, this record has stood alone as one of Robert's more personal works and adventurous studio endeavors.
Robert Deeble has recorded four distributed releases along with several one offs, comps and vinyl singles. He has supported shows for Low, Ida, The Kingsbury Manx, Pedro The Lion, Shannon Wright, Victoria Williams, Songs:Ohia, Over The Rhine and Steppenwolf (yes Steppenwolf...).
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