David Thomas is the founder of avant-rock legends Pere Ubu.The two pale boys (2pbs) are Andy Diagram (trumpet & electronics) and Keith Moliné (guitar & electronics). Andy, a member of James in the early 90s, has played in a number of influential groups, including Dislocation Dance, The Diagram Brothers and The Honkies. Currently he plays with the 2pbs and his own group, Spaceheads. Keith refuses to play in rock (or jazz) bands. His approach to music derives from "a careful diet of high-art electronica and low-art prog." He has played in Infidel and as Mesmerist.
David Thomas and his wild guitar & trumpet splinter group, two pale boys, generate strange, beautiful new shapes, rolling stories and sonic panoramas out of spontaneous deconstructions. The simple see-sawing of a melodeon gives way to cascading electronica and expressionistic soundscapes-- sometimes pulsating and abrasive, sometimes mysterious and exploratory. Through it all runs the mordant wit of one of the most distinctive and charismatic singers in modern music.
I don't know what Meadville means, the music is all about uncertainty, about dread, a dread that spins the present into the future...You hear time passing, you hear time that's passed, you hear an odd commitment to the art of talking out loud, and a bet that someone might be listening, and might talk back, one of these days...By the time (Thomas) reached his stages in 1996, he had become a creature of wonder, so alive to the possibilities of motion and chance in a word or phrase that any given song he might choose to sing will be less a song than a road, a road out or a road back...
Thomas' argument is that nothing worth understanding explains itself- he can't explain why he's singing or why you're listening, and his bet is that you can't either-- and that this lack of clarity, though fatal in the market, nevertheless keeps the conversation going, so long as his clues are as good as Raymond Chandler's, who never worried if a clue led nowhere...Time dissolves; the subject matter of Meadville is the last twenty-five years as an irrelevance that has prepared the singer for the next year, should there be one.
David Thomas & the Two Pale Boys - Meadville
Thomas' argument is that nothing worth understanding explains itself- he can't explain why he's singing or why you're listening, and his bet is that you can't either-- and that this lack of clarity, though fatal in the market, nevertheless keeps the conversation going, so long as his clues are as good as Raymond Chandler's, who never worried if a clue led nowhere...Time dissolves; the subject matter of Meadville is the last twenty-five years as an irrelevance that has prepared the singer for the next year, should there be one.David Thomas & the Two Pale Boys - Meadville
| Obsession | | ||
| Nobody Knows | | ||
| Red Sky | | ||
| Can't Help Falling in Love | | ||
| Nowheresville | | ||
| Fire | | ||
| Kathleen | | ||
| Surfer Girl / Around the Fire | | ||
| Beach Boys | | ||
| Weird Cornfields | | ||
| Busman's Honeymoon | |
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