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ARTIST
TITLE
In The Sack
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
DESTIJL 061CD DESTIJL 061CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
9/15/2008

"There seems to be two truisms I keep to: ONE - By and large, when an album is described as 'loner / psych / real people' it isn't going to be as good as I hope, and TWO - The Residents suck. Generally these hold true for me, maybe you too, and often I'll look suspiciously at descriptions like that. But then I remember, hey the first few Residents records are pretty damn amazing, and hell, the Kenneth Higney and Moolah records are pretty great too. But when I have a need for the real people sound, the first record I reach for is Mark Tucker's In The Sack. Although better known for his Batstew record, which is pretty relative, this album is no slouch. The cast of characters is familiar, upright piano, backwards vocals, rants, ravings, life savings. But here it's damn cheap; hell you should buy a few for friends, I'm going to! Mark Tucker is very mean on the piano and the best backwards vocalist I've ever heard, he knows more than blues progressions, this guy is writing pop symphonies. If David Ackles or bootleg Brian Wilson is your bag, this one is gonna rip the sack open (you can take that literally or apply it to Coley style allusion). Comparisons to the first Residents record are not far off, but I truly prefer Tucker's record, and it wouldn't be out of place in a spin with Moolah, Bruce Haacks kids records, Song Cycle and Horrific Child." - Jim O'Rourke, Brooklyn 04.