Beet, Maize & Corn, by High Llamas

Beet, Maize & Corn

by High Llamas

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Natalie Savage Listening to this allows me to pretend I live in a cottage and the biggest worry I have is watering my garden or rubbing my cat's belly.

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The Llamas return with their most beautiful album yet. Exit Electronic, Enter Acoustic. Emphasizing stringed instruments, the crisp arrangements allow Beet, Maize & Corn to be simultaneously lush and sparse, grand and subtle. Some more adjectives: Gorgeous, natural, organic, sincere.

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"I first heard The High Llamas' Beet, Maize and Corn after it flew into my mail box some time in 2003. (I'm not good with dates.) I remember falling in love with its simplicity and seeming austerity - after the gilded, rich albums they had made during the '90s, this was a quieter, statelier Llamas, painting from an autumn, auburn palette. They were now singing of the Walworth district, the Alexandra Line, the "˜Bridge Street step", and signing together, whether down the local or around Van Dyke Parks's piano. Jeremy Glogan's cover paintings reworked modernist architecture in an everyday manner, and made the Elephant & Castle romantic again, and the songs, shorn of all but the most essential arrangements, did the same for pop melody.

But this was also the first time I felt I got "inside" of what Sean O'Hagan and The High Llamas were really trying to do - all these beautiful arrangements, Carla Bley references, Impressionist touches etc in service to a humane vision of the song as a vessel for the quotidian. Here, O'Hagan sings of an England that's rooted in urban peregrination, folk unison singing; an honest record of his community. It's a profoundly moving experience to hear what a collective of artists can do when their eyes are open to the world on their doorstep, and these humble experiments, played and sung on a human scale, are among the bravest music made in modern times." - Jon Dale

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released October 7, 2003

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High Llamas London, UK

The High Llamas were formed in London in
1992 by Sean O’Hagan, John Fell and Marcus Holdaway. Rob Allum joined the group
in 1993 and Dominic Murcott in 1998.

The High Llamas’ music was a distinctly different sound in the alternative rock-ridden
90s, basing itself in the comparatively complex compositional zone of pop music of the
1950s, 60s and 70s. ... more

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