Tripecac - Gorilla Love (2005)

  1. Charitease [3:42] 2005-06-20 - 2005-06-21
  2. Hi Chair [4:54] 2005-06-23 - 2005-06-28
  3. Dupid [3:56] 2005-06-29 - 2005-06-30
  4. No That [4:40] 2005-07-05 - 2005-07-07
  5. Badvice [5:35] 2005-07-07 - 2005-07-11
  6. Meekend [5:04] 2005-07-11 - 2005-07-12
  7. Dumplate [4:13] 2005-07-13 - 2005-07-14
  8. Juicer [5:49] 2005-07-14 - 2005-07-19
  9. Fantarctica [5:02] 2005-07-20 - 2005-07-21
  10. Security [3:44] 2005-07-21 - 2005-07-22
  11. MondayN [6:43] 2005-07-25 - 2005-07-26
  12. Monkey Spin [5:24] 2005-07-26 - 2005-07-28
  13. Buy Buy [3:13] 2005-07-31 - 2005-08-04
  14. LCD [3:19] 2005-08-05 - 2005-08-06
  15. Snorissimo [3:54] 2005-08-06 - 2005-08-07
  16. Gorilla Love [8:40] 2005-08-07 - 2005-08-08

For this album I had a rule that every other song had to have vocals. I wanted to force myself to get back into creating catchy, memorable pop songs. I didn't want yet another mostly-instrumental album like Padden Drift.

Not that Padden Drift is unpleasant (as background music); it's just not memorable. I'm trying to wrench Tripecac away from the usual reggae/jazz/funk formula. But it's hard, very hard! Just listen to "Dupid" a couple hundred times. Oh wait, you already have; it's the same old listenable but forgettable Tripecac "boremula" that's been putting us to sleep since 1993 or so.

Now, imagine this big gorilla pummeling Tripecac back into songwriting shape. Rambling instrumental? Pow! Long, muddy, forgettable jam? Bam! Annoying little new-age ditty? Whap! You get the drift (no pun intended).

If the instrumentals wander into boring noodling, the vocal songs snap the focus back to the essentials. Well, in theory. Actually, some of the tightest songs on this CD are instrumentals. I just don't remember their names. And that's what's been bugging me.

So anyway, this album is the flotsam and fruit of tough-love. Gorilla love.

There are vocals on every even-numbered song. The rest of the sounds are from the trusty Triton.