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ALBUM REVIEW
June/July 2004
Review from: music liberation project
Andi Camp/We're From Japan
You are the Vehicle
2004 - Self Produced
You are the Vehicle is a five song compilation CD with a two songs by Andi Camp and two by WFJ. Then they team up and do a cover of The Boss' I'm on fire. If I could rename this album I would call it Zen and the Art of Hitting the Ride Symbol. The drumming on this CD is intense.
Andi Camp is a talented, and somewhat frenzied, piano player, like a less schizophrenic Tori Amos. Paired with her equally busy drummer, the duo create a modestly dense sonic mixture. Over this she whispers her words to you as though she is giving you a clue to follow her down some not quite reputable but highly intriguing alleyway.
We're From Japan have taken to the logical extension of Phil Spector's wall of sound, though they seem to have left behind the brooding dissonance and modest tempo drudge for something a little more, I don't know, uplifting. It's still heavy and deep but the mood has changed. There is a sense of hope in these songs. Where once there was rain, now a rainbow. Where once there was a journey, now a destination.
-sh
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