Cor-Crane Secret

I've always enjoyed Polvo's skittering, angular guitar work so I was well-primed for this one. This LP definitely feels a bit short and sweet without too much of a strong thesis statement, but the instrumentals more than make up for that – the band's musical style is wholly unique and recognizable from a mile away, and the inventive rhythms/guitar work make each track feel somewhat unpredictable but fully underscored by some twisted internal logic. Great add and a fun listen!

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Rating: 7/10 Best songs: Can I ride

Unknown to me, but it was allright

Some good 90s rock noodling. A little too "shoegazey" for me

There is the whole period of early 90s alt music trying to climb out of grunge sludge and into something poppier and the user submitted list is building the largest collection known to man

I listened to this about 24 hours before writing this and I honestly can’t recall anything about this album anymore. I think it was good idk.

This one had to grow on me a little bit. Even though this style is right up my alley, I thought it was pretty boring at first. I actually started liking the last two songs, which interestingly have less plays. I went back and listened to a couple previous songs. However, there's a lot of other bands from this time period. Not sure this one is really that essential.

This is a nice noisy indie rock album. It hovers somewhere between contemporaries like Fugazi, Therapy! and Pavements. The vocals are a bit weak, but great guitar sound.

Very much in the Pavement/GBV type indie line. I liked it well enough but the muddy mix and (what's becoming a repetitive complaint with these lesser known alternative acts) hard to understand vocals didn't do it any favors.

Oh, I really liked this. For a mere 38 minutes of music, this album has a lot of depth. Noisy in all the right ways with surprise moments that are genuinely pretty. The vocals don't always land, but there is still much to enjoy here. Thanks for sharing it. Fave Songs: Sense of It, Vibracobra, Kalgon, Can I Ride, Channel Changer, Well Is Deep

I dunno what this is. Looks like it could be industrial just based on other industrial album covers I've seen from the early 90s? Or will it just be 90s alt rock? LET'S FIND OUT. Ok yeah it's alt-rock. Mildly interesting musically, vocals are absolutely nothing. Update: I forgot it was even on. That's not a *great* sign. But 3/5 for not pissing me off.

Thought this was a decent alternative album. The noisy screechy guitar was definitely a choice. It was pretty much the whole album. At first it was pretty cool but after a while I thought if they were just going for loud and irritating over anything melodic. I enjoyed parts of it but I’d be hard pressed to revisit it. There’s just better 90s alternative. 5.9/10

Messy but fun. I feel like if I listened to it in the right mood I might fall for it, but I wasn't on that mood yesterday. Take these three stars as a potential future four.

An enjoyable bit of pseudo-Sonic Youth noise rock, this one. I wasn’t super keen and then I hit a few riff tracks that made me tap my toes. Some of the tunes had well-crafted structure and I liked the guitar-centric creativity. But what do I know?

Nineties American indie band, who have since managed to create a cult following for their -- at the time -- very lo-fi strand of indie-rock, also sprinkled with math-rock dirges. Too bad said maths are more akin to middle school equations on this debut, and not the sort of algebra those now accomplished musicians would delve into later (they're obviously far better performers today -- you just need to compare their recent outings to how out of pace the players are on closer "Duped" to *objectively* realize it!). Polvo have shown dedication to their art for more than three decades now, and that sort of thing is always commendable. Yet I still question their unnecessary convoluted artistry at times, to be honest -- and more specifically, the execution of said artistry in the first stages of their career To go into details as far as *Cor-Crane Secret* is concerned: Sonic Youth have been pinpointed as a key influence on this noisy debut, and you indeed have commonalities. But for me, we're actually closer to Sebadoh's partly self-indulgent waters here -- more Jason Loewenstein's scruffy turf than Lou Barlow's driven and moving songwriting, I have to point out, with that thing even dangerously verging close to Eric Gaffney WTF? territory. Even in the most saturated lo-fi/DIY indie-rock out there, you need some pop influences displayed at the right moment to seal the whole deal. Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr and even Sebadoh had those elements in spades within their iconic records. Not so sure Polvo has ever been interested in all that. Good for them if they can have fun in a different fashion, I guess. Just wondering if that choice doesn't give people like me -- definitely part of the target audience -- a reason to be a little picky... Not that this particular record deserves to be fully panned because of those shortcomings. Apart from the very good singles "Vibracobra" and "Can I Ride", highlights such as "Sense Of It" and "Channel Changer" manage to offer their share of catchy, dynamic riffs to propel the more off-kilter elements in the compositions. There's the right balance of gnarly aesthetics and teenage freshness in all those good songs. Wish that balance had been maintained in the album's last leg, however. The four last songs were a drag for me. The constant change of rhythms, some of the inert bridges, those cool guitars riffs in the songs' introductions being nothing but red herrings, the lack of real groove that could have sold the whole bizarre shebang -- which could maybe have been performed with more time in the studio... It all sounds a little gratuitous. Guess that Polvo didn't have the means to spend thousands and thousands of dollars for this debut. But the impression left here still screams the phrase "on a budget". You can still create terrific DIY albums "on a budget", you know. Looks like Polvo didn't have the magic formula or "Cor-Crane Secret" in them to pull that off. Harsh take, I know... But I can't help being blunt and honest here. 2.5/5 for the purposes of this list of essential albums, rounded up to 3. 7.5/10 for more general purposes (5 + 2.5) Number of albums from the original list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 465 Albums from the original list I *might* include in mine later on: 288 Albums from the original list I won't include in mine: 336 ---- Number of albums from the users list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 11 Albums from the users list I *might* select for mine later on: 16 Albums from the users list I won't select for mine: 27 (including this one)

Indie rock, noise rock, math rock. Música distorsionada. No me ha gustado. Un 2.

Never heard of this before, and while they seemed ok nothing jumped out and made me want to revisit it. A little on the noisy side for me.

The first word I can think of is: Disordered. I don't feel like the music is going anywhere. It has no harmony, and for that reason, I didn't find a sense of belonging with the songs that would ultimately make me enjoy them.

What bastard hybrid grungy shoegaze is this? Yeah, this is a dnf - just too messy.