Artist: Dinosaur Feathers Title: Control Label: Ernest Jenning Record Co. Catnr: EJRC109 Genre: Pop Encoder: LAME 3.100 V0 VBR Quality: 273 Kbps Avg / 44100 Hz Time: 39:25 Size: 81.06 MB Rip Date: 2022-04-05 Str Date: 2014-10-07 URL: http://dinosaurfeathers.bandcamp.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------- Tracklist: 1. Afternoon Sun 3:43 2. Zeitgeist 3:54 3. When You Coming Out 3:56 4. Fools 5:05 5. For Jonathan 4:44 6. Anything You Want 4:39 7. On My Mind 5:56 8. Impossible 3:28 9. Trip 4:00 ---------------------------------------------------------- Note: Brooklyn's Dinosaur Feathers look to Janet Jackson for spiritual guidance on their groove-laden third album ''Control.''. Insistent drum machines & lithe pulsing bass lines meet shimmering synths, coked-out horns & soulful vocals, dragging 1983 pop/R&B kicking & screaming into the new millennium. Master of ceremonies Greg Sullo hooked up with production gurus Naptimes to update (downdate?) & amplify what The New York TImes called ''[their] sinisterly effective pop melodies.'' Dinosaur Feathers first emerged from Brooklyn's sweaty DIY scene as an irrepressibly upbeat synthesis of indie rock & world music influences, replete with intricate soaring vocal harmonies. The group then charted a course from tropical leisure to nervy beach rock via substantial touring with acts like Built to Spill and Peter Bjorn & John. Most recently, Sullo committed to an extended stay in Oakland, where he found himself progressively drawn toward Motown soul & funky R&B - from Smokey to Chaka, Prince to Janet. His vocal performances here clearly reflect an affinity for such material, supported by a catalog of disparate secondary influences, from Scott Walker to Drake. Indebted to the grace & precision of songwriters like Harry Nilsson & Curtis Mayfield, these songs are the most direct & propulsive Sullo has committed to tape- err...digital bits. Lyrics deliver meditations on subjects at once intimate & divine, searching for meaning: ''Do you think it's true, what they say / We all will die alone? / But maybe that's the only way to pass into the Unknown.'' Even the most cosmically vexing elements prove eminently relatable - in the confessional, on the dance floor & in the bedroom. All things considered, ''Control'' offers up a rejoinder for those curious enough to ask, ''What have you done for me lately?''