Generate! (KLP062)
Generate! is a big record, bigger than its twelve inch appearance. There are beats and rhymes and light years of intimacy that can't be crawled around or glossed over. You get a bite sized chunk from a little bit of feeling called "Valley of the Clock". But the whole platter of wax is a ticking package you can't refuse. Storm clouds converge as
Some Velvet Sidewalk dives into cell division, underbeat meets overdrive, infinite time and the deep patterns of the universe. Don't bewail but do beware:
Generate! will circle back on you and no matter what direction your wagon is facing this will fix it good. The usual
Some Velvet Sidewalk line-up of
Alan Larsen, guitar & vocals,
Don Blair, drums, and
Martin Bernier, electric bass guitar is augmented by
Paul Schuster (
P.E.Z.,
Internal/External) on assorted instruments.
Nikki McClure is in on the action, giving us the biological lowdown. Produced by
Greg Freeman (
Pell Mell) and
Mike Johnson (
Alan Larsen's former Eugene, Oregon band mate from
Snakepit who later recorded with
Mark Lanegan and
Dinosaur, Jr.).
