Thursday, November 20th, 2014

The Avener – Fade Out Lines

The word “fade”/”faded” + deep house = surefire hit…


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Iain Mew: Want to enjoy the chilled out groove? There’s a bloody big monologue in the way! Want to try to enjoy the story? Good luck making sense of it, but even then, there’s a dull beat dragging it down.
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Megan Harrington: I thought this song was pretty sexy and smoky, but it turns out that’s just the sample, Phoebe Killdeer and the Short Straw’s “The Fade Out Line.” Man, that song is killer midnight music. I’m not sure The Avener has done anything here but bring Killdeer to my attention; still, cheers!
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Patrick St. Michel: In high school set-building-for-a-play class, one guy would brag about the “techno” songs he would make on Garageband. All he did was take a slow song and put one of the pre-made drum beats over it. I wonder if he’s The Avener now?
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Micha Cavaseno: Down-tempo rears its head, refusing to go back in its hole to manifest in a few more commercials about headphones or refrigerators or whatever these songs like to do.
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Anthony Easton: All of the points here are for the amazing way she says “France” — a discount Eartha Kitt, with all the camp and most of the mid-’80s production, all collapsed into rhyming “France” with “enhance.”
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Alfred Soto: It’s got a beat and someone will dance to it: think the White Stripes discovering programmed beats (an improvement, I’d say). Sung and mixed as if it were an obscure soul sample begging to be Moby-ized, the vocal gulps syllables as if trying to swallow itself. Points for the basic guitar riffs. 
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Josh Winters: Should I expect there to be endless carbon copies of “Prayer In C” in 2015?
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W.B. Swygart: In which Deep Dish’s ‘Flashdance‘ goes jazz in the worst kind of way.
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Brad Shoup: Sped up, it sounds a bit like Eartha Kitt doing “The Jackal”. Once again, for the producer at least, the timbre trumps the repetition. It’s narcotic for short stretches, but I’m mostly waiting for the psych-pop chorus, and imagining the towering string charts that might’ve been added 20 years ago. 
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3 Responses to “The Avener – Fade Out Lines”

  1. The Avener is a terrible name.

  2. Aveners Assemble

  3. its part of the “google typo seo” game