Arts & Entertainment November Yth 2012 « Over the Hage KANDLE (EP), ALBUM REVIEW CHILLY GONZALES - SOLO PIANO Il , ALBUM REVIEW CIGARETTES JORDAN TUCKER ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT | started smoking casually around the middle of 2011, when | real- ized that | too could smell of death and a desperate want to be cool. There's something to be said for a habit that you know can do you absolutely no good. Maybe it's the nihilist in me, but something about staring at the red ember in the middle of the night, after all sane measures to fall asleep have been exhausted, makes me feel as though I'm capable of perfect hon- esty with myself. It's a sort ofaware- ness of mortality. The thing about having a such a habit is that it forces you to be honest with your- self about why you do anything, from skydiving to falling in love, are KA N D L E really. So many things that we do, centred around a desperate and ia | ONZALES % 3 =& hor > curious need to understand death, UOREGON.EDU or to shy away from it. Inhaling into SLOTHBOOGIE.COM your lungs a giant freaking’ stick of nothing-good-for-you is sort JORDAN TUCKER album. JORDAN TUCKER by throwing a gold necklace at of liberating. Screw you, calorie- ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT This is an album for illicit © ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT him; and having his song “Never counting! Nuts off to you, coffee} This EP was actually released boozy picnics in the park; Chilly Gonzales is a beautiful Stop” featured on an Apple com- Peep slespenole and Jesus’ holy backin 2011,butwasrereleased simply put, Kandle would be musician in any genre. A Can- mercial for the iPad in 2010. He team of canvassers.lam slowlykill- | this year by Mercy, Happy Life great to see live. Kandle has adian treasure, he's made waves _ is also a member of the German ing myself and being a terrible ex- records. The main draw here a lovely voice, rich and tonal. in genres from jazz to hip-hop hip-hop band Puppetmastaz in ample to the future generation of is Kandle’s voice; it’s strong The songs themselves are full to classical. However, at heart, addition to his solo career. This Canadians and 1am loving it! Hack} and hearkens back to Nancy of raw emotion and energy, he will always be a pianist. After ought to give you an idea as to hack cough. : Sinatra - maybe a bit too much, and would likely be well-suited having taught himself piano at — the breadth and scope of his ca- Mun iaallntg) (bp elite Woo ell lentes as for the first three tracks of to an outdoor venue and dark age 3, Chilly (née Jason Beck) reer and work: Chilly Gonzales is smokers are cooler than the rest of . : . . : . us. |don't mean social smokers or | this EP, | had the impression _ beer in brown paper bags. The trained classically at McMaster aman whose work often defies pansy little insomniac smokers like that | was listening to slightly production (done by her father, University before moving to and reinvents genres. This new myself. | mean the tormented, tor- reworked versions of “These 54-40’s Neil Osbourne) is better France to distance himself from album is no exception, featuring tured smoker-types. The surly guys | Boots Were Made For Walking.” suited to vocally driven rock the Canadian music scene. Hav- gentle and caressing piano and who have to duck out of bigfamily | {andle also sounds a lot like performances, but actually ing worked with Warner Canada __ thoughtful pauses. It was record- gatherings in their weathered a less-melancholy version of workswellwithKandle’sghostly and found them to be uninter- ed in a 10-day studio session in denim jackets to perch on the end . : : . . . _. . of the curb to light up, their dark | Varpaint, or like a slightly tones. However, without lyrical ested in creativity and more en- _ Paris, France, and each track was blue eyes glinting darkly as they} More depressed Best Coast, but complexity or real range to amoured with sales, he played reworked and rerecorded over think about past regrets. Gwyneth without the weird dissonance the songs, the EP just sounds _ it solo fora while, recording hip- and over again to ensure utmost Paltrow in The Royal Tenenbaums, and spoiled sweetness. sort of flat, and gets annoying hop songs and electronica. He clarity of tone and intent. Buy a secret smoker from age 12, light | “Play with Fire”, a swing-style and repetitive after a couple of eventually went backtohisroots this album. It may not be the ing upinthe bathtub. Eventhetraill} Rolling Stones cover and the listens. Listen and let me know: (with a twist) with Solo Piano in _ typical college review, but it is of smoke in the Replacements’ Bas- last track on the six-sona EP i | k ff? d of original pi b tiful and full of feeli d tards of Young video is cooler than g EP, is amon key or way off? 2004, a record of original piano eautitu an ull oF Tee Ing an any five handfuls of cranky little cool and has some cute little songs. He has since released four gut-clenching moments. Listen hipsters with owl necklaces and hooks, but overall the album piano albums, Solo Piano II be- to it on the bus, listen to it when whimsical off-kilter earrings. This seems off-tempo due to what ing the last of the set, and had you're doing your homework, is why I've always shied away from | feels like a lack of solid vision numerous adventures. These get drunk to it. Just listen to it. becoming a fulltime smoker: IM] between the instrumentalists include, but are not limited to: not cool enough. | was talking to . . . a smoker-type friend of mine, and, and the singer. Also, the lyrics breaking the world record for after pondering the question of | are not terribly strong; if Kandle longest solo-artist performance quitting, they admitted to me that had just hired a songwriter and with an act of 27 hours, 3 min- it didn't matter, because theywere |_ told them the general direction utes and 44 seconds; winning sure they were going to die young she wanted the tracks to go in, a piano battle against fellow anyways. That sort of morbid con | this might have been a better Canadian musician Andrew W.K fidence is exactly why smokers can haphazardly leap onto motor- cycles and lounge about campfires contemplating philosophy, as | imagine they do. Because smok- ers are okay with the idea of dying, they are more willing to do things that the rest of us won't. Because smokers won't submit to the usual mortality jibe like the rest of us, they're immune to the frantic flut- tering of gyms and social groups. If not to emphysema and lung can- cer. @FUR op 20 Alb _ ; 1. Parallels - XII 11. Kreayshawn - Somethin ‘Bout Kreay The Surgeon General is just a jeal- . . ous fellow. One should take ciga- 2. Wax Mannequin - No Safe Home 12. Amanda Palmer - Theatre Is Evil rettes seriously. Be it in a moment 3. The Caretakers- Love, War, and Propaganda 13. Nu Sensae - Sundowning of reflection with a friend amidst 4. AC Newman - Shut Down the Streets 14. Chilly Gonzales - Solo Piano II a night of revelry, or just solo on 5. Mother Mother - The Sticks 15. Artichoke - Etchy Sketchy Skies re aed amore at me ene or 6. The xx - Coexist 16. Sienna Dahlen - Verglas e night ts a time to contemplate _ _ ° what is, and to meditate. Serious 7. The Sheepdogs The Sheepdogs 17. Pet Shop Boys Elysium halt corchitans aegis (mel e2= 8. Rah Rah - The Poet’s Dead 18. The Zolas - Ancient Mars ing as we're young, we're invincible 19. Cat Power - Sun 19, Lou Wreath - Exploding Diagram anyways), smoking is a therapeutic 10. Nuela Charles - Aware 20. Kandle - Kandle tool, conversation starter, and an