Retail Music Store : Sleep Through The Static

Jack in Gray Scale; Post-George, and Back Down to Business,

February 9, 2008

By	J. Chasin (NYC, NY) - See all my reviews

I have to laugh. The buzz on this record was that, "Whoa, its so much DARKER than Curious George." I don't know what I was expecting-- like, did he spend the last two years shooting up in the Chelsea Hotel and listening to Lou Reed's Berlin?

Nuh uh. This is an instantly likable record, not a kids' record to be sure, but then that one was the anomaly. I will say that it feels like gray scale, like Curious George was in Technicolor whereas this is a classy black and white portrait. But really, how dark can the record be when it says on the back cover, "Recorded with 100% solar energy."

And I played it in the car today for my wife, and she liked it, and she happens to have a golden ear.