Talbot Tagora
Lessons In The Woods Or A City
Release Date: Jul 21, 2009
Genre(s): Indie, Rock
Record label: Hardly Art
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Album Review: Lessons In The Woods Or A City by Talbot Tagora
Very Good, Based on 1 Critic
Pitchfork - 67
Based on rating 6.7/10
Based on rating 6.7/10
Seattle art-punk trio Talbot Tagora clearly understand the importance of a moniker. Naming themselves for a defunct European car that valued practicality over style yet was not practical enough (i.e., gas-efficient) to withstand the late-1970s energy crisis, the band announces its interest in the mechanical, the proletariat, and the cruelly ironic. And the title of the self-released CD-R/tape veterans' proper debut for Hardly Art, Lessons in the Woods or a City, hints at the mysterious, primal menace and noisy, urban clamor contained within.