Name: Tacoma Ballet par Lucid Nation
Brand: Lucid Nation
SKU: 783707559124
Price: 9.9 USD
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Rating: 4 (224 reviews)

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Lucid Nation's ambitious Tacoma Ballet is a double album that offers a very complete picture of where they stand in 2002. Outside of vocalist Tamra Spivey, Ronnie Pontiac is the only survivor from the last lineup, offering his pleasantly sparse and sloppy guitar amongst the five new members. The band also features the incredible drumming of Patty Schemel, the former skin-pounder for Hole during the mid-'90s. The new band has a loose, jammy feel, often bringing to mind the Up on the Sun era of the Meat Puppets with a little Babes in Toyland-esque tension thrown in. But this is vocalist Spivey's show, and it is her acidic vocals that carry this album. Bringing to mind vocalists as different as Diamanda Galás, Kathleen Hanna, and Bonnie Raitt, her range is incredible, and her ability to take on various voices is what keeps the album as fresh as it is. Mostly concentrating on her contempt for the American way of life, Spivey can be a sharp social critic when she puts her mind to it. "Fall" is an excellent example, using the slow-moving psychedelia of the song to deliver a self-flagellating anthem that steps away from its own message to offer clever commentary on how things got so bad for the song's protagonist. It's when she goes straight for the gut that her talents seem to get overshadowed by her political ambitions. This is especially obvious on the controversial "Welcome to America." The anti-Republican message is delivered in a mock Southern accent as Spivey brags about Texas' superiority to the rest of the country. But to her credit, by the end of the song, her infectious passion for her own ideals overcomes the broad simplicity and uncharacteristic generalizations of the lyrics. Some might be turned off by the idea of a riot grrrl redux ten years later, but Lucid Nation's Tacoma Ballet is much more than that. It's a broad range of unique and repetitive musical pieces that are tense, psychedelic, and avoid the overbearing emphasis on complicated performances that can come with a double album. It's also a vivid portrait of conservative America from the point-of-view of a politically aware youth culture that still can't quite get over itself. And, most importantly, it's a great rock record that's not afraid to stir up a little controversy.
© Bradley Torreano /TiVo

Tacoma Ballet

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1. Happy Accident

2. Welcome to America

3. Big Dog

4. End of the Line

5. Seven Stringer

6. Hallow

7. Fall

8. Home For the Holidays

9. Point of No Return

10. Sweet Misery

11. This Old Town

12. Manzanar Recess

13. Tacoma Ballet

14. Everyone's Got An Area 51

15. Lucretia

16. Who Is Memory?

17. (disc 2) Somewhere New

18. Note to Self

19. Absence Breaks the Heart Grown Fonder

20. Favorite Star

21. Mr. Slow

22. Problematic

23. Aloneness

24. Kindred

25. Love and War

26. Livia

27. Pharmaceutical Soup

28. Happy

29. Universal Application

30. Liberty Street

31. 30 States in 30 Days

32. Shelter

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