Word: sebadoh
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...record is essentially the first official solo album from the new father, who previously spent his adult life nurturing underground music. He has played in influential underground bands like Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh, and the Folk Implosion...
...muffled lo-fi recordings. Performed live, the sound is still very stripped-down, allowing the soft earnestness of the songs to shine through. Barlow even employed two microphones, one clean and one muffled, switching back and forth while calling to mind the insulated, distant sound of his work with Sebadoh...
...more exuberant acts like the Flaming Lips. The pretty pop work of Friedman shines through on a number of songs, including the beautiful “California” and the closer, “Walk into the Sea,” which sounds more like fellow indie icon Sebadoh than any of Low’s previous work...
...shedding his suit coat for a conservative gray T-shirt with the phrase “No. 2.” On the other side of the stool-perched boom-box, Jason Loewenstein leered over the audience, dwarfing his bass, clearly thrilled to be back in the city where Sebadoh was based. Unable to contain his glee, he teetered back and forth swigging from his Heineken and keeping time with Barlow’s lead guitar. When he did take lead vocals, perhaps most prominently on the heart-wrenching “Got It,” he showed himself...
...interplay between the two songwriters has always been integral to Sebadoh. Their three great albums—III, Bakesale and Harmacy—have always featured an even distribution of songwriting credits between the two, and Lowenstein’s vitriol is constantly tempered by Barlow’s cool. The balance between the two, as physically manifested on-stage on corresponding sides of the boom-box drum machine, keeps their sound constantly engaging—there is a Sebadoh sound, but split between two ultimately different songwriters who share an aesthetic for murky, reflective, grunge-lite songwriting. Sebadoh?...