Pocahaunted / Make It Real
Artist Pocahaunted
Album Title: Make It Real
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Primary Genre Alternative & Punk: General Alternative
Format CD
Released 03/05/2010
Label Not Not Fun Records
Catalog No NNF188
Bar Code No none
Packaging Digipack
Tracks
1. Touch You (4:53)
2. Make It Real (4:13)
3. All Of Is Of (3:36)
4. U.F.O. (8:49)
5. You Do Voo Doo (6:39)
6. Sanctuary (2:56)
7. Save Yrself (Its Nice) (7:52)
Date Acquired 11/09/2010
Personal Rating
Acquired from Electric Fetus - Minneapolis
Purchase Price 12.00

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Review by Jesse Jarnow

The first album by a reconfigured Pocahaunted, Make It Real solidifies the band's rambling tribal funk improvisations and dubby productions into something far more traditionally band-like. Though the sense of complete unpredictability is removed -- steady trap drumming will do that -- there is still enough weirdness to keep the group's sound consistently bizarre, despite transforming from the duo of Amanda Brown and Bethany Cosentino to a Brown-led quartet following Cosentino's departure for New York (where she founded Best Coast). With Sun Araw's Cameron Stallones adding organ, songs like "U.F.O." move from loose shuffles into outer space and back. Stallones' presence is particularly felt on "You Do Voo Doo," the organ and drumming giving the tune a strobe-lit psychedelic throb. (And then there's even a guitar solo!) Other tunes are even more melodious, including the vibrant (but no less scattered) "Save Yrself (It's Nice)," which goes over like a sloppy, garage version of tropical-era Animal Collective.
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