The Copper Gamins - Los Niños de Cobre (2013) [email protected] Beolab1700
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The Copper Gamins - Los Niños de Cobre
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Artist...............: The Copper Gamins
Album................: Los Niños de Cobre
Genre................: Garage
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 2013
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: LAME 3.99
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: Insane, (avg. bitrate: 320kbps)
Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3
Information..........:
Posted by............: Beolab1700 on 14/04/2014
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Tracklisting
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1. The Copper Gamins - All Hid (Tradicional) [02:16]
2. The Copper Gamins - Oh Well Well [02:32]
3. The Copper Gamins - Little Gold [02:42]
4. The Copper Gamins - Golden Card [03:44]
5. The Copper Gamins - This Old Boy [04:06]
6. The Copper Gamins - Bid the Copper [02:18]
7. The Copper Gamins - Hold My Name [03:55]
8. The Copper Gamins - Nightengale [04:33]
9. The Copper Gamins - Is This All Mine [03:00]
10. The Copper Gamins - Learn a Song [02:07]
11. The Copper Gamins - You Keep Around [03:00]
12. The Copper Gamins - Tell My Sister [03:23]
13. The Copper Gamins - Silver Monkey [02:31]
14. The Copper Gamins - Angelitos Negros [03:59]
15. The Copper Gamins - Little Ron [02:57]
16. The Copper Gamins - Wet Sounds [04:30]
17. The Copper Gamins - Supermaxima [03:46]
Playing Time.........: 55:25
Total Size...........: 122.14 MB
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Critics sometimes use the phrase “more fun to talk about than to listen to” when describing an album that plays with new ideas and approaches to music. The inverse — that an album is more fun to listen to than to review or discuss — doesn’t come up as frequently. Los Niños de Cobre is an album that would live up to the inverse of that phrase. The qualities that make it compulsively listenable — its straightforward simplicity and the band members’ passion and skill — also make it an elusive subject for review. The Copper Gamins have created an album that makes an ideal soundtrack to long walks in the early-morning magic hour and humid, sleepless nights.
At first glance, The Copper Gamins might seem like another neo-blues outfit in the style of The Black Keys ( Before they stared to churn out poptastic trash ) or White Stripes. All three bands feature only two members, have similar names, and perform songs that recall early blues efforts. While both The Black Keys ( used to ) and The Copper Gamins write the kinds of percussive riffs that stick in your head for days, the Gamins’ vulnerable lyrics and singer Jose Carmen’s trembling vocals contrast with Dan Auerbach’s sinewy approach to the blues. Likewise, the skilled, unfussy drumming of Claus Lafania sets the Gamins apart from the White Stripes’ busy beats.
The duo instead takes a classic approach to songwriting and recording that suggests they skipped right past Led Zeppelin and went straight to 78s by Son House and Robert Johnson. Carmen and Lafania have an eerie, intuitive chemistry that you can hear in their riffs and in the interplay between the vocals and guitar. Their songs open with Carmen’s guitar sliding around Lafania’s steady beat and curlicuing through the silences like ivy. Many of the songs play with the loud/quiet/loud dynamic in interesting ways, making the choruses quiet and the verses loud, for example, or amplifying parts of the songs that slow down.
Production on Los Niños de Cobre has an eclectic bent, ranging from muddled four-track recordings to more polished sounds that give the band a demystifying sense of clarity. The low-fi cuts work better since they balance the sound and keep the band from getting too high-endy. Because the production values have an inconsistent quality, the album sometimes sounds more like a greatest-hits compilation than a statement of purpose from a rising band.
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