Apostle of Hustle — Folkloric Feel

Folkloric Feel

Arts & Crafts/EMI

Brian Wong (CHARTattack)

08/24/2004 1:11pm

Taking the accessible art-rock and experimental textures from his better-known band, Broken Social Scene, guitarist Andrew Whiteman enlists some of his fellow scenesters to craft what could have been a worthy follow-up to BSS’ You Forgot It In People. Folkloric Feel sounds as if Spanish gypsies have entered the scene, dancing all over this spectacularly dense, raucous indie-pop with tribal percussion, horns and glistening guitar. The cerebral electronic stampede "Kings & Queens" and the raw, bossa-nova moonlight shuffle of "Animal Fat" employ Leslie Feist’s translucent croon, but the centerpiece is "Dark What Is What I Want/Strutters Ball," which noisily connects swinging jazz to a devil-horned guitar solo, epitomizing Folkloric’s alarmingly — and jaw-droppingly — artful fantasies.

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