People Like Us: A Fistful of Knuckles

A Fistful of KnucklesCaciocavallo : CAD10 : November 2000distributed by Soleilmoon and CargoHi there! I'm Wrangler Wolf, here to tell ya about the latest and greatest album by People Like Us, entitled "A Fistful of Knuckles". You all prob'ly recognize the name People Like Us (or as some folks out my way say, "People Like Cuss"!) as being that of one of the finest darn "plunderphonic" performing and recording artists of the modern age. It's the work of one young lass, by the name of Vicki Bennett, who slices and dices so much darn sound all at once, which she's grabbed from who-knows-whut and who-knows-where, that you might think you're listening to a tornado of sound whippin' up the prairie. After listening to a decade of CD and LP releases from People Like Us, I figured I'd heard it all... not so! For when I threw on this here "A Fistful of Knuckles" I knew I was in hog heaven and for whole new reasons. You see, she's decided to stick to one single theme this time out: camp... as in "camp-fire". That's right, she's chucked a whole load of sing-a-long tunes and trail ridin' classics right in a big ol' heap on the flames and watched 'em sizzle. She done listened to so much cowboy music and watched so many Western movies that she had no choicebut to throw in all in her little blender and create this crazy monster of deconstruc.. decon... deconstuck... aw, hell, I can't pronounce the darn word, but I'm sure you know what I'm talkin' about. And she enlisted a bit of help from her friends on this one, like fellow sound-mining buddies Wobbly and The Jet Black Hair People, Mr. Rotorvator, MC Schmertz, Ricky Dagner and other young folks, too. Hell, I wish she'd of asked me to play my harmonica on it... but I guess she had too darn much to wrestle with already."...A Fistful of Knuckles, the latest album by Vicki Bennett's wry sound-collage project, People Like Us (Caciocavallo). Constructed entirely of samples from Westerns and rousing campfire singalongs, Bennett skillfully twists wholesome hoe-downs into thinly veiled innuendoes, smearing the record with a latent sexual deviance. A sly and enjoyable corruption of the macho cowboy stereotype - all whips, spurs and leather chaps - giving new meaning to the phrase 'saddle 'em up and ride, boys' [7]"-- Piers Martin in the NME : February 2001"People Like Us is simply too good. Why it presents us again and again CD, like a circus. One must win something distance from this music, thus her one not flatly with the endless heavily meaning basic sounds and memories. Here to the world between American white diapers, Pferdchen those the world mean, Kleinkinderklukluxklansofties and other one like Country, donkeys, sakeless Schubidus and cold kriegern in a leckeren soup. People Like US is like cinema, like which old humans at MTV finds so exciting always, these many cuts, only the cuts are not cuts, but, deeply inside into this world from sound the world of the television offers precise interventions to surgical quality, without it would refer to expressly drauf that that really like that it is but supplies actually only for People Like US material, which so unconsciously passed through quasi by us that one can cannibalize it ever further and further. Carefully naturally and with a Manie CUT copy paste of the Artworkings, which one, once belonged never again loose will. " A Fistful OF Knuckles " is the terminator point of a long long search to the praised country, which ran from the east coast in long Trecks to the west coast, made a stopover with John Wayne over in People Like US to end." - translation from de-bug magazineA Fistful of Knuckles, the latest album by Vicki Bennett's wry sound-collage project, People Like Us (Caciocavallo). Constructed entirely of samples from Westerns and rousing campfire singalongs, Bennett skillfully twists wholesome hoe-downs into thinly veiled innuendoes, smearing the record with a latent sexual deviance. A sly and enjoyable corruption of the macho cowboy stereotype - all whips, spurs and leather chaps - giving new meaning to the phrase 'saddle 'em up and ride, boys' (NME)