May 18, 2001

REESE


Album Review: LLAMA FARMERS

EL TOPPO
By DARRYL STERDAN



EL TOPPO
Llama Farmers
(Beggars Group)

The time-zone Ground Zero of Greenwich, England, is the perfect home base for Llama Farmers. This co-ed quartet seems to stand perfectly poised at the crossroads of rock 'n' roll past, present and future. They take their cues from the grunge-era noise-rock of Nirvana and The Pixies -- they have a fuzzbox and they're not afraid to use it -- but they manage to avoid the Nirvanabe curse by retrofitting their sound with the canyon-wide guitar hooks of Britpop and the shoegazing expanse of My Bloody Valentine. From the opening buzz-bomb riff of the title track to Feathers' prescient chorus of, "I'm afraid I have to go now, 'cos I'm gonna be a big star," it's obvious Llama Farmers know where they come from, where they are and where they're going to. And time is definitely on their side.

Track Listing 1. El Toppo
2. Snow White
3. More Salt
4. Doggy Fudge
5. Postcards and Moonrock
6. Feathers
7. Note on the Door
8. Same Song
9. Ear the C
10. You Bore Me
11. Movie
 


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