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That Brad Laner record sounds amazing. What more can you tell me about Medicine?
Ha, was just listening to 'Fuzzy' the other day. Stands up with most of this contemporary country rock stuff, IMO. Sorry, alt-country.
There's probably more information about Medicine on wikipedia or something, what do you want to know? From memory they did 3 albums in the early-mid 90s, each getting progressively cleaner, as I said.
They got the Cocteau Twins' Robin Guthrie in to produce the third, if I'm remembering rightly, and it's appropriately spacious and jangly, but just not that interesting. The song that wound up on 'The Crow' soundtrack is in that kind of vein.
Brad Laner's done maybe 4 or 5 solo albums as The Electric Company, released on Kid 606's label, Tigerbeat 6. They're sort of in the vein of FX Randomiz or maybe Dat Politics, but if you're not right into this kind of nonsense those points of comparison probably mean nothing (I'm insulting my otaku status here, not your ignorance
).
He reformed Medicine last year or the year before, but it's a new band, him and Sharon Lee (Bruce Lee's daughter, met via soundtracking 'The Crow' I guess). I think Sharon is a fairly bad singer and Brad's forays into the explicitly digital domain have taken what I liked out of the music.
'Shot Forth Self Living' really is quite hard to listen to - it starts with a squeal of feedback that stays put for about 2 or 3 minutes (while other things happen
) and there's a lot of really harsh, trebly distortion piercing eardrums at every turn.
Does any of that help in the slightest?
