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Farces Wanna Mo's's previous release, the slapdash Transcend & Subsume EP (2002), was a letdown after a string of delightfully bizarre efforts. Three years in the making, If Not Why Not?, the protean collective's first full-length since 1999, is a welcome return to form. Or rather, a return to formlessness; meticulously crafted anarchy (an oxymoron, I know) as always been Farces' hallmark and their special madness is in full flower here. Carrying on the chattiness of Transcend & Subsume, much of which was given over to rambling interviews with Dave W and his geographicaly dispersed cohorts ("What Farces Wanna Mo Has To Say"), If Not Why Not? is bursting with babble, to an extent that the record can be considered less an album of songs than a collection of spoken-word pieces with song-like musical accompaniment. Even when Farces dallies with conventional song forms, as on the punkish "Here Is A Cake" (my pick for college-radio airplay), chaos snaps at its heels and threatens to topple the structure. For a group that has long valued quantity, producing a dozen lo-fi recordings in as many years, If Not Why Not? sets a new standard of quality, elevating FWM to experimentalists of the first order.
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Lionswater Ranch
P.O. Box 1837
Wonder Valley, CA 92277-1250
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