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Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson

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  Name Artist Time Price  
1 Buriedfed Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson 4:50 $0.69 View In iTunes
2 The Debtor Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson 4:14 $1.29 View In iTunes
3 Woodfriend Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson 3:17 $0.69 View In iTunes
4 Who's Lauging? Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson 5:07 $1.29 View In iTunes
5 The Ongoing Debate Concerning Present Vs Future Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson 4:22 $0.99 View In iTunes
6 My Good Luck Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson 4:37 $0.69 View In iTunes
7 Written Over Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson 2:43 $0.99 View In iTunes
8 Mountaineerd Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson 5:27 $0.99 View In iTunes
9 Above the Sun Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson 3:40 $0.99 View In iTunes
10 Boneindian Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson 4:59 $0.69 View In iTunes

Album Review

Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson is not your typical singer/songwriter, nor is his self-titled debut album your usual folky fare. Instead, the set is the sound of a man reaching the point of meltdown, shredding himself with his self-deprecating songs, while bashing his head against a wall. That may be a bit extreme, but it captures the intensity of this album and its immediacy; it somehow evokes a solo Johnny Thunders reeling around a stage in a drugged-out haze, crossed with a boozy Keith Richards strumming out tunes late at night on the road. Or an Irish wake attended by the dearly departed himself, and never more so than on "Buriedfed," a rollicking daydream of Robinson's own death and ensuing funeral, with an uplifting epitaph delivered on the hymn-like "Above the Sun." Producer Chris Taylor provides the entire album with a live feel and plenty of atmosphere, with his Grizzly Bear bandmates Daniel Rossen and Chris Bear and TV on the Radio's Kyp Malone helping flesh out the sound. And that sound can reach grand proportions, as it does on the fiery "Woodfriend," a stomping rocker with skittering guitar leads; "The Ongoing Debate Concerning Present vs. Future," a downbeat hard rocker with proggy pretensions; and "The Debtor," a shiny slab of '60s-flavored British Invasion rock. However, even the more minimally arranged numbers, like the singalong "Written Over" and "Who's Laughing?," a song that slides from acoustic psychedelia into Stonesy rock, never sound bare. Yet, as enticing as the music is, it's still just a backdrop for Robinson's hard-lived vocals and lyrics that reflect his many wasted (in both senses of the word) years. And even as he's "waiting on the sky to fall" and imagining death's cool embrace, in the end the artist isn't quite ready to leave this life yet, and salvages the set from being a total downer.

Recent Customer Reviews

Wow
     
by EllSmiRip

There is not enough stars to rate this...

Brilliant...
     
by Atticus

Soon as I heard it, I loved it. Its beat up. Kind of bluesy, drunken, alt-country sound. I'd give it six stars if I could.

Fantastic
     
by timswims

Angry, overwhelmed. There is a fury to the pain of MBAR's lyrics, an ironic frusterated awareness of the things to which he sings about that have led him to grief. And the grief is multifaceted, grief at himself, decisions, the intangible tangle of desires that pulse and move those things, all of it is expressed here in this album, through the drone scream of guitar, the tacit thump of prison drums, and the odd whiskey saloon chorus piano. It all rolls together into a ball of messy glass shard gum, on which to chew and chew; marveling at the flavor of your own blood.

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  • $7.99
  • Genres: Rock, Music
  • Released: Jun 10, 2008

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25 Ratings