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6 out of 10
Someone's tried to put one over on me with this album, I'm sure. Their blurb conjures the impression that Sholi are politically-inspired Persians, bravely striding between North America and Iran in a way no-one is supposed to at the moment, what with all that nuclear bomb business and Obama trying to keep his considerable cool about unleashing Yanko-geddon once again. They've been on magazine CDs, you know. They've been to university.
Sholi may very well be a nascent, new-century U2, gearing up to Save The WorldT. What I've been given here, though, is a Radiohead album. It has a Tortoise beginning and a Deerhoof sheen (thanks to one Greg Saunier of that parish) but the rest is almost 100% Yorke-Greenwood. If you can get past that (and, quite obviously, I can't), you will be rewarded with a dreamy, cerebral set of songs which could very well find themselves floating from dual-fuel vehicles the world over or being cannibalised by advertising execs - if such things still exist these days. The last track stands out, as I'm sure it was on OK Computer. Or did I dream it?
Listen: www.myspace.com/sholimusic
Tracklist:
1. All That We can See
2. Tourniquet
3. November Through June
4. Spy In The House of Memories
5. Any Other God
6. Dance For Hours
7. Out of Orbit
8. Contortionist
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