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Dengue Fever - Escape From Dragon House [Deluxe Edition] (2017)

Dengue Fever - Escape From Dragon House [Deluxe Edition] (2017)

BAND/ARTIST: Dengue Fever

For their sophomore album, Dengue Fever switch away from their nearly all-covers repertoire to try something a little more bold -- writing originals while still developing their rock-music-into-Cambodian-pop-and-back-again approach. It's actually a good move in order to escape from lingering questions of "just" being a museum piece of a group. Happily the six-piece step up, introducing an interesting curveball as well with a newly professed interest in the upbeat, horn-driven Ethiopian pop/funk/rock of the '60s and '70s collected in the Ethiopiques series. Though one could cynically wonder if the band is going to end up incorporating a new retro scene per album, Dengue Fever clearly are out to entertain by whatever means, and by putting a slew of things together, create something new and unexpected. Chhon Nimol's singing is again top-notch, even slipping in a bit of hip-hop flow on "Sui Bong," while her greater fluency in English also creates more of a truly unique sound for the band. The Holtzman brothers again provide the musical core, with Ethan's work on organ providing the kind of smoky funk appropriate to the proceedings. Zac's guitar adds good crunch, but it's the strength of the overall arrangements that truly matters the most, as songs slip from bass/drum breakdowns to horn-driven explosions of joy. Standout moments include the nervous, almost early Cure-style introduction to "Tap Water," the beautiful ballad "Sleepwalking Through the Mekong," and the acid-trip drama of "One Thousand Tears of a Tarantula," which deserves to be a neo-psychedelic classic. The one cover this time around, "Tip My Canoe," is of legendary Cambodian singer Ros Serey Sothea, with Zac duetting with Nimol, a feat they repeat in English, Nimol taking the lead, on the passionate "Made of Steam." It would be striking to see what Dengue Fever could do with engaging fusions of the current day -- there are pop, techno, and hip-hop numbers worldwide as joyfully inspired and specifically local as those older songs the group adores. No matter, though, so long as the band keeps creating such excellent work.

01. Dengue Fever - We Were Gonna
02. Dengue Fever - Sni Bong
03. Dengue Fever - Tip My Canoe
04. Dengue Fever - Tap Water
05. Dengue Fever - Sleepwalking Through the Mekong
06. Dengue Fever - One Thousand Tears of a Tarantula
07. Dengue Fever - Escape From Dragon House
08. Dengue Fever - Made of Steam
09. Dengue Fever - Lake Dolores
10. Dengue Fever - Saran Wrap
11. Dengue Fever - Hummingbird
12. Dengue Fever - Escape From Dragon House (Live at the Shoebox)
13. Dengue Fever - Made of Steam (Mechanical Pencil Remix)
14. Dengue Fever - Sleepwalking Through the Mekong (Morgan Page Remix)
15. Dengue Fever - Sni Ha (Live at the Shoebox)

Year 2017 | Jazz | World | Rock | Indie | FLAC / APE

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  • mufty77
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Many thanks for lossless.
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