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Album Details

• Artist: Apostle Of Hustle
• Album: Folkloric Feel
• Label: Arts & Crafts
• Year of Release: 2004
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• Reviewed by: dscanland on 2004-11-18

Folkloric Feel starts out with the title track, brought in by the plucking of a guitar, building slightly with looming chaos coming as what sounds like timpani's slowly come in. Then a real rhythm starts to take form at about the 3 minute measure with some words in the background, all rhythm drops out again at the 6 minute mark and we are back on the free form pop. All this and you still on the first track. We can only be listening to yet another branch of the Broken Social Scene collective. Apostle of Hustle is basically the songwriting vehicle for Andrew Whiteman, one of the BSS main members and with Folkloric Feel he gets help from Julian Brown and Dean Stone. The first song where we hear Andrew's amazing vocals on is track two, "Sleepwalking Ballad". It, too, gets a little chaotic closer to the end. On "Baby, You're In Luck" you kind of hear the influence of Whiteman's recent trip to Cuba. It has a bit of a latin feel to it, as do a few other songs on the album. Also, throughout the album, we get treated to quite a mix of lo-fi and hi-fi recordings. We get treated to Leslie Fiest's vocals on "Kings and Queens", yet another one of Folkloric Feel's gems. Apostle of Hustle is a worthy addition to the Arts & Crafts folds, if not outshadowing Broken Social Scene. It's an album that, if given half a chance, you will keep coming back to time and time again.

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