![]() ![]() Nothing morbid, just an interest in getting to know what was really going on in those years when this sibling hit machine was killing it on the charts and softly rocked a whole generation on radio and TV. It wasn’t until Karen Carpenter passed away and I learned for the first time about eating disorders and her extremely turbulent struggles did the songs find a deeper haunting intrigue in me. I have never hated The Carpenters in fact, I’ve always thought their almost weird stage presence and underlying conflicting emotional and sonic styles made for good stuff. An album that was thought up by two believers (Producer Matt Wallace (Faith No More, Deftones, REM) & David Konjoyan) who loved their their form of ‘whitebread’ music and probably realized a golden opportunity to showcase The Carpenters in new thrilling of the moment sounds in its release and they did have the know how to gather some of the best of the best alternative, pop, post punk and college radio mainstays to explore what are ultimately darker than intended soft classics. It turns out, 20 years later, I’ve rediscovered If I Were A Carpenter is a fantastic achievement. I listened to it a handful of times and before I could form my own opinion on it others were cramming their overly hyped praises down my thought processes. When this deeper in most spots tributes of sort to the 70’s AM and lite FM radio brother and sister duo, I didn’t have proper time to become interested. When it came out I was burned or burning out on the now every band and label wants to have their irritating toes in the grunge genre. If I Were A Carpenter (A&M ’94) has a place in my history. It was a heavy slice of Americana, like the Walton family.” – Thurston Moore They were whitebread middle-class people and Karen was somebody who was supposed to be so perfect. It gave it a super-lush feel – not unlike what My Bloody Valentine are trying to do now. Her voice was so angelic it was like butterscotch and Richard used to layer it, which was a fairly radical studio technique. “Oh, it was crap music but was also extremely interesting. ![]()
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