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News
& Press:
- Two
new CD reviews in San Francisco
"...But
what really puts the whole enterprise over, apart from
obvious inspirations like Harvey, are the reconstructed,
penny-opera blues all the utensils generate... noirishly
beautiful too – dig
in." - San Francisco Bay
Guardian. Read
on here >
"This fiendish conspiracy between Ovarian Trolley and Hallflowers
singer Laurie Hall and multi-instrumentalist Eric Drew Feldman
is pretty damned easy on the ears, but it probably isn't very
good for your brain.
Hall's hypnotic siren song can only have a narcotic effect,
lulling you into a dream state while Feldman's slow, bass-heavy
sonic mix pummels what's left of your psyche into paste like
a brawny masseur." - East
Bay Express Read
on here >
- Rolling
Stone,
Knife and Fork Cut Blues
Beefheart, Pixies keyboardist takes turn in spotlight...
"Miserycord sounds something like classic blues filtered
through avant garde composer Tony Conrad, an atmospheric alchemy
with Feldman's keys providing a droning sense of menace and
Hall's wraithlike vocals, particularly on "Wild," exuding
a modern take on a distorted Delta moan that echoes bluesman
Charley Patton."
Read
the whole story here >
- "Knife
& Fork is music from a deep place, from the groin, from
the belly,
from behind a cage of ribs. It's that truckstop
cum cabaret on that road that stretches between Warsaw
and Moscow; where among the slow dancers passes the ghost
of
behemoth. Bones
rattle on yak skins while the melancholic female figure
onstage sings low and sad without shedding so much as a
single tear.
Others sit in the shadows at their tables, transfixed,
listening. They come every night to be soothed by her blue
voice,
tapping their fingers to the drum and the bell." - Frank
Black
- "Hall
has an attractively distinctive, stately, and soulful voice
with a plaintive vibrato... Feldman
contours Hall's tormented tapestries with a dense, virtually
orchestral setting (almost Phil Spectorian, even) and chilly,
inexorable rhythms. Setting them apart from (and above) their
gloomy peers is the range and creative, restrained fervor
of Hall's singing." -
San Francisco Weekly Read
the full review here >
- "Knife & Fork
is one of the only bands that have affected me in recent
years. Unpredictable, beautiful, powerful, and moving.
Quite
unlike anything else." - Polly
Jean Harvey
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West
Coast Performer "Noise
Pop 2004" Knife & Fork/Monolith/Loquat/50
Foot Wave Weds, February 25 "...Knife
& Fork laid down granite beds of sound with their two keyboards,
providing a Gothic backdrop (not the "goth" of
pouty mall rats sitting on the floor in the
food court,
but the Gothic of huge, unheated cathedrals
and Purgatory) to the throaty vocals and howling slide
guitar... they created
a bracing hypnosis, especially as they leaned
towards the primal."
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- Live Review of Leeds, England show
"A
more unlikely looking bunch of musicians you are ever likely
to find assembled on stage, looking not unlike distant cousins
of the Addams Family and every inch the anti-popstars there
music suggests they want to be...close your eyes and you
could have been listening to Portishead mating in a funeral
home
with Aim.
Now
that might not sound like a good thing, but trust me, in
a musical sense it's magic. The female
lead singer had one of the strongest and most stunning voices
i've heard live for a long time, dragging the songs forward
be it the funeral procession of the opening track through
to the more upbeat and heavy 'Fire', utterly riveting stuff
and
very definitely a PJ Harvey support band."
- The Beat Surrender, UK Full
review here >
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