Grand Duchy - Petits Fours (2009)

Description for Grand Duchy Petits Fours 2009

Grand Duchy - Petits Fours (2009)
EAC Rip | FLAC+Log+CUE | fingerprint, info, artwork included | 1 CD, 264 MB
Gengre: Rock Underground

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Grand Duchy is an American rock band formed in 2008 by Black Frank and his wife Violet Clark

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Grand Duchy is an American rock band formed in 2008 by Black Frank and his wife Violet Clark

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So, old Frank breaks up The Pixies, becoming tired of being expected to scream quite so much at concerts. Becoming concerned The Pixies were falling into formula and becoming tired with that groups bass player in particular. So, he goes it alone and in a hilarious piss-take of the kind of artistic sleeves record label 4AD would impress upon Pixies releases, decided to create all of his own artwork for this release. So, we get a fat looking Frank dressed in a suit, a fairly garish front cover, Frank sporting a 'Fu-Manchu' moustache, Frank wearing a bright green suit and holding some sort of lizard upto his pair of comedy glasses. It's actually completely hilarious, but must have appalled his bosses at 4AD! And, you know. Frank Black solo just isn't as sexy a prospect as The Pixies in full flight, which is perhaps why parts of his solo career have received undue neglect whilst The Pixies continue to be praised from the hilltops. This particular set of songs was actually originally written and slated for a prospective Pixies follow-up to 'Trompe Le Monde'. In essence then, these are Pixies songs in all but the personnel performing them. The production makes a break with The Pixies being more richly produced although the actual style of music is still rooted in garage/surf/space/rock guitar music!

After a little quiet introduction 'Los Angeles' explodes from the speakers in guitar ROCK fashion. It doesn't have a chorus as such, but it does have a lovely Pixies strummed guitar effect in the mellow sections of the song. 'I Heard Ramona Sing' reveals a few Brian Wilson lyrical influences with the seemingly banal nature of such throwaway ( but still brilliant ) lines as 'I had so many problems, so I got me a walkman'. Two tracks in and we aren't exactly removed from the style of The Pixies, although 'I Heard Ramona Sing' clearly has more lavish production. Speaking of Brian Wilson, Frank covers The Beach Boys 'Hang On To Your Ego' in an attempt to make the pop charts. It sounds horribly over-produced with little clear separation of the instrumentation although good guitar parts are still noticeable amongst the mess of noise. 'Fu Manchu' is better with little funky melody lines, great vocals and funny brilliantly quirky lyrics. 'Places Named After Numbers' ditches the guitar altogether for its slightly symphonic keyboard led introduction before moving into a sweetly played and beautifully touching ballad. 'Czar' comes closest to his old Pixies vocal style with an almost screaming performance. 'Old Black Dawning' is a perfect two minute song - the surf and strummed guitar returns, the production is rich and clear, there is attention to detail and all this within one two minute song. 'Ten Percenter' is a great demented performance from all involved and the song Pixies fans are most likely to immediately identify with.

The second half of the album kicks off with the short delightfully Mexican 'Brackish Boy. 'Two Spaces' makes good use of 'Trompe Le Monde' contributor Eric Drew Feldmans keyboard lines. It's a song packed with melody, clever lyrics and some truly wonderful keyboard sounds. 'Tossed' is a rocking little instrumental, 'Parry The Wind High Low' a rocking little vocal and guitar workout! 'Adda Lee' opens with a mess of guitars but is actually one of the most beautiful songs Frank Black/Black Francis has ever written. I can't quite explain why, but I find this strangely touching and emotional. In a slightly similar vein is 'Every Time I Go Round Here', another slower song but another quality song still containing melody and still containing great vocals in particular. 'Don't Ya Rile Em' is a simple little happy guitar song with more effective keyboard lines mixed in. An inauspicious kind of song, much like the album as a whole which just hasn't been presented as being an overly serious work because of the Pixies thing. Fact is though, it's really just as good as much of The Pixies work, and is by no means a disappointing set of songs.

BBC review: Part punk, part rock, part pop, hubbie and wifey duo Grand Duchy release a thoroughly eclectic debut. Petits Four is a strange species of LP. So varied are the nine tracks that only an extremely open-minded listener can seriously appreciate the entire body of work.

Drowned in Sound review (8/10): This is certainly not nostalgia for its own sake, and with some of the records Black has put out, who needs nostalgia anyway? ... It says it all that, in some ways, it's a little upsetting that there are only nine tracks. Though Black's career post-Pixies has been patchy, this is an undoubted return to form.



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1. Come on Over to My House (2:46)
2. Lovesick (3:53)
3. Fort Wayne (4:38)
4. Seeing Stars (3:30)
5. Black Suit (4:30)
6. The Long Song (5:16)
7. Break the Angels (5:18)
8. Ermesinde (4:05)
9. Volcano! (3:36)

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