Sebadoh III

Encyclopedia : S : SE : SEB : Sebadoh III

Sebadoh III is the third album by Amherst, Massachusetts indie rock group Sebadoh, released in 1991.

Tracklisting

"The Freed Pig"
"Sickles and Hammers"
"Total Peace"
"Violet Execution"
"Scars, Four Eyes"
"Truly Great Thing"
"Kath"
"Perverted World"
"Wonderful, Wonderful"
"Limb by Limb"
"Smoke a Bowl"
"Black-Haired Girl"
"Hoppin' Up and Down"
"Supernatural Force"
"Rockstar"
"Downmind"
"Renaissance Man"
"God Told Me"
"Holy Picture"
"Hassle"
"No Different"
"Spoiled"
"As the World Dies, the Eyes of God Grow Bigger"

The final track is characterised by antiphonal dialogue between the hard-left and hard-right stereo channels, with the turn-taking gradually dissolving into a simultaneous heterophonic cacophony. This process is aided by the structure of the song, which broadly alternates 'peaceful' and 'psychotic' material. The length of the segments decreases steadily across the arrangement but inconsistently in the left and right pans, causing the left/right antiphony to decay and eventually merge. When the merging has completed beyond any obvious trace, the structure completely unifies into "pure" noise-music and finally breaks down into a vengeful rant. It's one of the most advanced pieces of studio experimentation in the early 90s art-rock movement and says a good deal about the true meaning of the "lo-fi" tag, which has often mistakenly been taken to signify ineptness.

From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.