Clem Snide : Me No

Monday, May 18, 2009

Me No

Hungry Bird Catches The Worm.


It's been four years since the last Clem Snide album which in music-dom is about a century. I've missed them.

Eef Barzelay is the heart and soul of Clem Snide, a "project" whose name derives from the re-occurring character in several William S. Burroughs novels which gives you a pretty good indication of what you might be in for.  But it is Barzelay's deadpan voice that is the calling card of Clem Snide. It never takes me more than a nano second to identify anything with Eef's signature on it. The timing, phrasing, pitch, and delivery are unmistakable and his songs wear well, like a comfortable pair of old shoes.

I first fell for this band back in 2000 with their sophomore release Your Favorite Music.  I couldn't get the song "African Friend" out of my head.  "Your beautiful African friend/Next to him I look so white/So white that you turned away/And wanted me out of your sight".

I'm not sure I had ever heard such matter-of-factness delivered with such an unlikely combination of indifference and passion. I've been hooked ever since.

The new album Hungry Bird feels like a return to those roots. Simple, haunting, slightly off-kilter and highly intoxicating, as witnessed by this, the lead off track.

Seems like the perfect song to kick off a manic music Monday...

Me No - Clem Snide

by Clem Snide from Hungry Bird

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