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Rioting quieter than most, Uzi & Ari seems to essentially be the solo project of one Ben Shepard, of Salt Lake City - It Is Freezing Out is his second long-play collection following last year’s Dont Leave In Such A Hurry. These songs are well fleshed-out by an assortment of accomplished musicians, each lending their own nuances to proceedings, but at this album’s core beats the heart of a single man only.

Tracks skirt around the edges of acts like Mogwai and The Postal Service – beats are supplemented by drones and twinkles direct from the outer reaches of the solar system – but the overall impression left by It Is Freezing Out is one previously associated with The Album Leaf. Its these echoes that characterise the album’s latter stages – beginning buoyantly, it drifts into dreamscape territories with wonderful grace and assured compositional confidence. Shepard’s never hurried: his songs are allowed to expand at a casual pace, with ne’er a too-spontaneous spark of inventiveness or awkward change of direction to be heard.

Although a couple of efforts can be accurately categorised as background fodder, highlights are well worth repeat plays – ‘Influenza’ is a crackling and convulsing number that eventually shifts down a few gears and fades quite wonderfully to an understated conclusion, while ‘Drowsy, Drowsy’ and ‘Trainwreck’ come across like lost outtakes from Radiohead recording sessions conducted between albums three and four. At times, too, Shepard emotes affectingly with startling similarity to Thom Yorke – no bad thing at all.

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radekkkkkkk wrote:
Tuesday morning

i can't habeeb it either

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Prince_Goro wrote:
Monday evening

I can't believe influenza isn't on the top tracks...

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Enan-Alex wrote:
September 2009

check out a review of 'Uzi & Ari's' "Headworms" here at: http://highlyevolvedau.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/headworms-uzi-ari/

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16N0R4N7 wrote:
August 2009

Don't Leave In Such A Hurry, best album of this guy.......s.

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TomorrowxImxYou wrote:
August 2009

New album please

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echoing_airport wrote:
August 2009

awesome one of the most favourite bands

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radekkkkkkk wrote:
July 2009

don't leave in such a hurry is sew gud

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kinderesser wrote:
July 2009

<3

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Gielniczka wrote:
July 2009

: P

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groggiero wrote:
May 2009

;)

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GeoffSaba wrote:
April 2009

i don't see how it can be anything else!

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kajuskaaa wrote:
April 2009

random but is their name a royal tennenbaums referrence?

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bkrazy2sweet wrote:
March 2009

love this band, met the keyboardist last night.. more U.S citezens should show them love!!!

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frauen1 wrote:
March 2009

crap

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TomorrowxImxYou wrote:
February 2009

You can really connect with them.

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juju_calhau wrote:
February 2009

cool :)

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Talicco wrote:
February 2009

such a great music !!!

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Bioshocked64 wrote:
January 2009

They played a great show at Kilby Court last night! I hope to see them soon again!

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japhii wrote:
January 2009

:D

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Winter_at_Sea wrote:
January 2009

gorgeous ! they will start their european tour on 14th january 2009 ! complete schedule can be checked here www.fiverosespress.net

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