Andrew Broder crafted 10th Avenue Freakout as a rhythmic, up-front electronic-pop album, much less pensive and subdued than Fog's previous full-length, Ether Teeth. His impeccable sense of pop spontaneity -- tremendous hooks sprinkled in among intense, droning atmospherics and lucid, loosely built drum machine lines -- is still very present, albeit far more out in the open and crisply produced, allowing for more standard songcraft and much less downtime. Broder's twisted and often absurd lyrics, such as "Jesus Christ is my American Idol/He's the brand new funky president" from the catchy "We're Winning," are equally balanced by his moments of inspired illustration. "Hummer," for example, creates a bleak, bittersweet feeling of numbed malaise, which Broder establishes very effectively, harmonizing with himself as he ponders, in a positively unaffected daze, what it's like "to be a sprinkler system in a thunderstorm." Fog is essentially Andrew Broder's moniker, under which he pursues various projects, all considerably different but, like 10th Avenue Freakout, consistently imaginative and never predictable. ~ Ben Peterson, All Music Guide
10th Avenue Freakout
03/22/2005 | Lex Records
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CD
$15.9910TH AVENUE FREAKOUT
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LP
$19.9910TH AVENUE FREAKOUT
All Music Guide Review
10th Avenue Freakout Track Listing
Credits of 10th Avenue Freakout
- Jeremy Ylvisaker
- Guitar, Engineer, Korg Synthesizer, Group Member, Slide Guitar
- Greg Lewis
- Trumpet
- Tom Cesario
- Technical Assistance
- Andrew Broder
- Producer, Group Member, Engineer, Cover Art Concept
- Martin Dosh
- Percussion, Drums, Group Member
- Julie Wellman
- Vocals, Editorial Assistant, Technical Assistance
- Ben Durrant
- Technical Assistance
- Tim Glenn
- Group Member
- Adam Linz
- Bass
- George Cartwright
- Saxophone
- Tom Herbers
- Producer, Engineer, Technical Assistance




















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