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Member Since: 08/04/2006
Band Website: www.quarteracrelifestyle.com
Band Members: Aaron Pollock :: Cameron Pollock :: Tony Masterantonio
Influences: Jandals, Lawn mowers, Diefenbach, street lights, NZ, garage tools, Tool, line art, NIN, vast soundtracks, Timbaland, hokey pokey, talk talk, sand in ya sunburn, police, silly old-school cussin', massive attack, white stripes, less, Spanish Architecture, more, Sly & Robbie, salt water swimming, Pixies, street art, James Jamerson, Colder, Banksy, Curtis Mayfield, Gorillaz, BBQs at the beach, Jackie Mittoo, having a good time all the time 'nshit.
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QuarterAcreLifestyle : Blood on the Lawn // CD Review
It's always fascinating to hear the subtle variations bands can achieve on well-established musical formulas. On Blood on the Lawn, Quarter Acre Lifestyle blends a sparkling trip hop vibe with a more jagged-edged, NIN-style industrial attack, and they've delivered a rather kickass debut in the process.
The title track makes a big impression with a recurring spooky keyboard sound that stands out from the pounding drums and slightly discordant guitar; these instruments all seem to be having a private conversation with one another, and you have to perk up your ears to get the hidden message. It's an instrumental, too; there are several of them on this disc, which clearly shows that ego matters are quite secondary to feel and atmosphere for QAL.
They conjure plenty of that on the opening "Captains of Industry," which skirts Bowie-Eno territory (several tunes do, in fact). Quarter Acre Lifestyle have made a fast, powerful, beautifully recorded set of tunes that definitely deliver the goods for the patient listener who likes to be lulled and slapped around a bit in equal measure. B+ | Kevin Renick
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QuarterAcreLifestyle - Blood on the Lawn
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Album Review / www.babysue.com
The lead track on this album ("Captains of Industry") makes it instantly clear that the folks in QuarterAcreLifestyle aren't playing the game by the normal set of rules. After all, how many modern pop bands begin their album with a peculiar instrumental...? What is perhaps most surprising...is how accessible some of these tracks are. Some of them actually sound like they could be...big commercial hits (?!?). Odd modern pop cuts include "Yeah Nah," "Cold Heart," "Escalator," and "Blood on the Lawn." (Rating: 5+)
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QuarterAcreLifestyle "Blood on the Lawn" (Indpendent 2008)
Multinational Pop-noir almost draws blood
Whilst so many bands will use brief forays into electronica as an almost forced, token nod toward what they perceive as ‘modernity’, rather than a genuine directional shift, QuarterAcreLifestyle naturally infuse their songs with subtle drum loops and ambient keyboard atmospherics mixed with the occasional burst of moderately polite Buzz-saw guitar.
There are moments when the ‘pop noir’ they seem to be aiming for is quite clearly within their grasp. ‘Cold Heart’ is all beautiful Zero-7 atmospherics and haunting suggestion. Then, at the album’s close they seem to hit a particularly formidable stride. ‘Escalator’ is crammed with exciting, nagging guitar (though nicely reminiscent of Mansun’s ‘Wide Open Space’), whilst the instrumental title track sounds like what may have happened if Trent Reznor had gate-crashed Bowie/Eno’s Berlin trilogy. More of these and we could have a mightily impressive proposition on our hands.
Date review added: Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Reviewer: Ian Fildes
Reviewers Rating: 7 out of 10
Record Label: http://cdbaby.com/cd/qalifestyle2
