Live: Arizona, Cake Shop, New York, NY, 11/7/08
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Asheville, North Carolina’s Arizona stopped in at Cake Shop Friday night, celebrating the release of their sophomore album, The Glowing Bird. The band opened with “Heath,” the first track on the excellent new record. The song is a folkie, midnight hayride on the album, but live, the meddling pace of the keys and guitars pick up to make the piece a stagecoach pursued by Comanches. During the gently psychedelic “Balloons,” the band’s soft, subtle vocal harmonies helped reveal the song as some amalgamation of doo-wop croon, Ween-like irreverence and Pink Floyd extended metaphor. Vocal harmonics and maximum guitar shreds were...
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