ARTIST: The Heise Brothers
TITLE: Listen And Learn With The Heise Brothers
LABEL: Choose To Lose Music
GENRE: Rock
TIME: 34:56 min
SIZE:  42,1 MB
RIP DATE: Jun-06-2006
RELEASE DATE: May-30-2006
WEBSITE: n/a

Track List:

01. Introsis                                   00:23
02. Figure Anything Out (Mystic)               00:59
03. For Me                                     02:23
04. Dust                                       02:20
05. Don't Say Goodbye                          01:25
06. Old Man                                    02:40
07. Figure Anything Out (Mystic)               00:57
08. Names                                      03:00
09. As Good As It Gets                         02:57
10. Time                                       02:58
11. Whisper Yesterday                          03:40
12. Figure Anything Out (Stomp)                00:58
13. Ol' Grey Underwear                         02:46
14. Gives You The Blues                        01:17
15. Alma Marie                                 03:29
16. Untitled                                   02:44

Release Notes:

The Heise Brothers used to be in Minneapolis
garage/punk band Munkey Juice, they may still be,
they don’t seem quite sure. This record however is
brothers Nelson (older) and Robert (younger), both
twenty something, having their first bash at doing a
beret and goatee folk rock thing. What a lot of it
ends up sounding like is an unplugged Dinosaur Jr,
particularly with Nelson’s voice being like a
slightly less whiny J Mascis. There are also touches
of Paul Westerberg here and there, hardly surprising
given the geography, and, less expected, a lot more
reminders of Lou Reed and the Velvets, particularly
with some of the vocal phrasing on tracks such as
‘Old Man’. The record came out of a song Nelson
wrote as a tribute to his recently passed
Grandmother ‘Alma Marie’, which is tucked away on
track 15 at the end of the record (apart from a
brief hidden track), though clearly heartfelt, its
probably not the strongest song here. The record is
built around ‘Figure Anything Out’ which crops up in
three short and varied versions, spread throughout
the record, and has an infectious Elliott Smith like
chorus that really stays with you, ‘Names’, about
former band mates, also has subtle hooks. ‘For Me’
actually is quite rocky with fine lead guitar from
fellow Munkey Juicer Joshua Stuckey, similarly on
‘Ol Grey Underwear’ an ode to the joys of a long
term relationship. It’s a likable record and you can
feel the good natured, slightly world weary, humour
of the brothers coming through, an indication of
which is that all the chords played on the record
are illustrated on the CD inner, its called ‘Listen
and Learn…’ get it?
