The Fun Years

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Cornelia Amygdaloid 06:04 Tools
Breech on the Bowstring 07:50 Tools
My Lowville 10:54 Tools
Makes Sense to Me 04:05 Tools
Division of Labor (TV Track) 03:42 Tools
Auto Show Day of the Dead 07:11 Tools
Psychic Career 02:06 Tools
Little Vapors 04:27 Tools
And They Think My Name Is Dequan 05:44 Tools
Fucking Milwaukee's Been Hesher Forever 10:30 Tools
I Am Speaking Through Barbara 03:36 Tools
The Surge Is Working 08:14 Tools
Re: We're Again Buried Under 07:03 Tools
Get Out of the Obese Crowd 08:37 Tools
Precious Persecution Complex 06:40 Tools
yellow is misleading 02:01 Tools
am i having a stroke? 02:34 Tools
icon mockery 02:31 Tools
we don't need no fucking theme song 00:40 Tools
we might just have what you need 02:39 Tools
Powerball Annie 12:07 Tools
In Case You Had Any Doubts... 11:43 Tools
Softy As Stilts 10:07 Tools
Garbage Man, Poet 10:53 Tools
D >> 2 04:14 Tools
Ask for the Omega Man 04:14 Tools
Electricity Is A Scarce Commodity 06:37 Tools
The Delusion Always Wins 06:37 Tools
Tape Screen Triangles 06:37 Tools
electricity is a scarce commodity (radio edit) 04:00 Tools
Radiator 04:00 Tools
Deepest Xylophone 04:00 Tools
Sun Blackened Field Daisy / Decapite El Mirlo 04:00 Tools
Sea The Shroud / Janice Was Into Recovery 04:00 Tools
A Decade of Weakness, Pt. 1 10:51 Tools
I'm The Batman Forever 05:40 Tools
A Decade of Weakness Pt. 2 10:51 Tools
Upland Continuity 10:51 Tools
My Incredulous Featherbed 05:33 Tools
Plural on Pull 02:00 Tools
D>>2 04:14 Tools
The Fun Years Scribble With Crayons 05:01 Tools
Spaghetti Western 11:12 Tools
tonight we are playing at 48bpm 05:01 Tools
Like a Chrome Plated Skull Knob 04:11 Tools
(You Are) The Worst Person I've Ever Met 03:04 Tools
Really Cease the Hardship Stencil 02:01 Tools
growlight in the hallway 06:49 Tools
Soothe Out the Milch Bender 05:54 Tools
Old Habits Die Harder Than Bruce Willis 04:42 Tools
So Autosuggestible, So Asleep 10:06 Tools
Comprehensible Jenkins 03:14 Tools
Heroes Of The Second Story Walk-Up 03:14 Tools
Stella Ascends Chromatically 10:28 Tools
Your Goliath 05:20 Tools
now that's what i call droning, volume 4 55:15 Tools
A Decade Of Weakness pt I 55:15 Tools
A Decade of Weakness Pt II 55:15 Tools
firelight complaint 55:15 Tools
Conjurers, Necromancers, Ventriloquists 45:26 Tools
A Beginner's Guide to Telescopes 45:26 Tools
firelight compliant 05:20 Tools
minimal hardcore 00:00 Tools
We Don't Need No Fucking Theme Songs 00:40 Tools
the fun years - 01 my lowville 10:54 Tools
$3.99 Yourself to Death 49:48 Tools
Tonight We Are Playing At 48 Bpm 45:26 Tools
Side A 05:20 Tools
why we're all below average 45:26 Tools
Trashcan Lava Flow 04:17 Tools
Trash Can Lava Flow 08:14 Tools
03 - D >> 2 45:26 Tools
I am speaking through Barabara - The Fun Years 45:26 Tools
Side B 08:14 Tools
Hard to Know When to Cut Your Losses 03:36 Tools
the fun years - 05. the surge is working 08:14 Tools
I'll Give You... Guns! 03:14 Tools
the fun years - 04. re - we're again buried under 07:03 Tools
Antitheme 04:17 Tools
When I Stop Trying, You Try Too Hard 03:14 Tools
You Are Stupid in 1833 03:14 Tools
The Sound Between Sounds 03:14 Tools
the crippling paranoia of fluorescent quinine 07:03 Tools
Breech On The Bowstring (Excerpt) 07:03 Tools
Janice Was Into Recovery 04:17 Tools
Of No Temptress Threadbare 03:14 Tools
Brainwash the Taxidermist 04:17 Tools
Refer to Your Buchenwald Cherub 03:14 Tools
Sun Blackened Field Daisy 04:17 Tools
live at non-event (excerpt) 09:36 Tools
Cornelia Amygdaloid - The Fun Years 09:36 Tools
Sea The Shroud 09:36 Tools
baby, it's cold inside 09:36 Tools
11. the fun years - i am speaking through barbara 09:36 Tools
with magic by combinatorics 03:36 Tools
everyone may not perceive the look 01:51 Tools
fucking milwaukees been hesher forever 09:36 Tools
Decapite el Mirlo 09:36 Tools
F*****g Milwaukee's Been Hesher Forever 03:14 Tools
automat chord detergent 03:14 Tools
re were again buried under 09:36 Tools
Coahuila 09:36 Tools
let's start with something small 04:17 Tools
A Decade Of Weakness, Part 1 04:17 Tools
Softly As Stilts 04:17 Tools
God Was Like, No A2 00:00 Tools
Comprhensible Jenkins 03:14 Tools
swamp ass, swamp dog 03:36 Tools
creep in the quarrelsome syntax 01:59 Tools
clear that shit out 03:36 Tools
delicious identity crisis 01:59 Tools
A Decade of Weakness, Part 2 01:59 Tools
wanna be a drone superstar 01:59 Tools
electricity is a scarce commod 03:14 Tools
live at non-event 00:00 Tools
Old Habits Die Harder Than Brue Willis 04:43 Tools
be alphabetic 04:17 Tools
In Case You Had Any Doubts 04:17 Tools
and now it's getting real dark... 04:17 Tools
I'M SPEAKING THROUGH BARBARA 03:36 Tools
when i m33t your sister 04:17 Tools
uriah the bloody 04:17 Tools
artists are by-products 04:17 Tools
On Our Way to a Fire We Are 04:17 Tools
don't play in the middle 04:17 Tools
with no quarantine 04:17 Tools
akrostress may make you drowsy 04:17 Tools
as any minuet deterring the convergence 04:17 Tools
don't worry: borrow 04:17 Tools
antitheme (excerpt) 01:59 Tools
My Lowville (Comrade) 01:59 Tools
Coahuila (The Fun Years Remix) 04:17 Tools
i don't know if i know how to drone anymore 04:17 Tools
minimal hardcore, part 1 04:17 Tools
sooth out the milch bender (excerpt) 04:17 Tools
alright, i'm alright 04:17 Tools
The Fun Years - 01 - My Lowville 04:17 Tools
The Fun Years - 02 - Auto Show Day of the Dead 04:17 Tools
D--2 04:17 Tools
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'Life Sized Psychoses' is the debut album from American duo The Fun Years and the first 'proper' album to come from the very promising Barge camp. Last year the label issued one of the finest compilations we'd heard in a while ('Innature') and they seem to be continuing the high bar of quality with this absolutely fabulous disc. With one musician (Isaac Sparks) using turntables and effects, and the other (Ben Recht) on baritone guitar, the two create a hazy half-speed ambience which lies somewhere in limbo between Fennesz, The Gentlemen Losers, Machinefabriek, Vincent Gallo and Philip Jeck. That might be hard to bring to mind so let me help you out a bit - Isaac Sparks sounds like he's busy in the corner of a broken down old farmhouse, scraping motifs from old jazz and easy listening records as Ben Recht plays small riffs and improvisations over the top. Not that this is necessarily the recipe for success, but this duo have a deft understanding of each others' strengths and limitations and across fifty minutes never make a misstep. It's interesting actually to hear this kind of atmospheric, half-submerged music being produced in this manner, maybe the only comparison I can think of in this respect would be Mountains, who share a similar understanding for working with guitar and noisier elements. There's a sense that Recht is tempering these pieces, all hands on the controls as Sparks makes magic happen with his distinctive baritone guitar sound - there's just that feeling that although 'Life Sized Psychoses' might be a debut album, these guys could have been doing this forever. Warm and calming in some parts, icy and noise-laden in others, it's an album I know I will be playing over and over (I've had it for a few weeks now and it's not been far from the cd player). I want to say there's a narrative but that isn't what makes The Fun Years stand out, it's the way they avoid the trappings of ever being too academic or too laboured, and beneath all the trapped nostalgia of record loops and familiar motifs you get the feeling that this is the work of two musicians who are actually enjoying themselves. Utterly entrancing and totally beautiful - highly recommended. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.