Dempsey - Sunrise Sunset FLAC album

Bizarro alt-folk-electronic-rock from Geoff McIntyre. What else can you make of the police siren laden homage to Ol' Dirty Bastard on "ODB on the Run"? Even with Mr. Four Tet, Kieran Hebden, on production duties, the first half of _Sunrise Sunset_ doesn't quite gel. Individual moments have their spark, like the sparse funk of "Hippy Dream" or the dreamy twang of "Sweet Fanny Adams," but they don't necessarily add up to coherence. "What You Goin' On About" integrates the rhythm and merges with the the bluegrass guitar better. When The Underdog takes over the production duties, the tracks become much more clean, but this can sometimes be a downside: the silliness of "Buzz" becomes that much more apparent. The langourous slide of "Down the Track" carries some country-western sadness, and the simple cello of "Blue Star" holds the weight of the world, but as a whole, though, _Sunrise Sunset_ seems too in love with its own eclecticism to make a strong musical statement.