Ned Collette - Future Suture [2007][FLAC]

Artist:Ned Collette
Release:Future Suture
Released: 2007
Label: Dot Dash Records
Catalog#: 009
Format: FLAC / Lossless / Log (100%) / Cue
Country: AU
Style:pop/rock


01. - First Love (03:36)
02. - Sell Your Life (05:48)
03. - Forty Children (03:46)
04. - Show Your Hand (06:19)
05. - The Country With a Smile (04:55)
06. - Winter Holiday (04:52)
07. - Ned's Dream (06:55)
08. - Lost and Found (07:46)
09. - Race (06:03)

The opening moments of Ned Collette's second record are a lark, picking up from the exact musical and instrumental tone of his debut, but they do not stay that way. From there the album morphs into a number of new forms, into smoke-ring guitar solos and phasing electronic atmospherics. It retains all of the appeal of the debut but feels like a mutation of it more than a specific growth or refutation; the transition between the two has the feel of a roadtrip from the countryside to the city. The company remains constant, and good. It says something about the delicacy of that first release that the opening guitar lines of a track like "Show Your Hand" feel almost psychedelic, and the shift to a martial verse right afterward seems outright daring. But despite these instrumental differences, Collette's voice remains as lyrically and emotively appealing as ever, at once elliptic and conversational. By creating a work so artistically true to its predecessor but sonically expanded, Collette handily sidesteps any question of a sophomore slump.