Look What the Rookie Did explained

Look What the Rookie Did
Type:studio
Artist:Zumpano
Cover:Look What the Rookie Did.jpg
Released:January 24, 1995
Recorded:1993
Genre:Indie rock
Label:Sub Pop[1]
Producer:Kevin Kane
Next Title:Goin' Through Changes
Next Year:1996

Look What the Rookie Did is the debut album by Canadian band Zumpano, released in 1995.[2] [3] The album is available for listening online. Videos were released for the singles "The Party Rages On" and "I Dig You". The Sub Pop CD release of this album (sp277b) features the Hardship Post, and their song "Let There Be Girls" as an unlisted track on the CD.

Production

The album was produced by Kevin Kane.[4] It was recorded about two years prior to its release.[5]

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote that "Zumpano is able to fight off the potential for coyness in its polka dot endeavors and ambitious enough to raise the ante with dramatic horns and pedal steel, treating period evocation as an intermediate goal rather than the stylistic finish line."[4] The Washington Post wrote that "the proceedings are sometimes a little arch, but Zumpano and company usually marshal the melodies to keep their concept from flagging."[6] CMJ New Music Monthly thought that "the sound is so perversely incongruous with everything else going on today, and is played with such unabashed garage-band innocence, that it actually sounds fresh, and you just can't help but be charmed."[7]

In a retrospective review, Magnet wrote that the album's "best songs ('The Party Rages On', 'Temptation Summary', 'I Dig You') were on par with the Brill Building breezy-listening pop that inspired them, possessing the sort of pristine, heartfelt, melancholy melodies that were all but banished from the airwaves by 1995."[8] AllMusic wrote that "the freshness of Zumpano's sound, combined with adventurous melodies and rhythms, makes this an essential piece of work." Exclaim! opined that Look What the Rookie Did "combines peerless tunefulness with instrumental complexity (guitars, keyboards, backing vocals and horns all stacked Yurtle high), topped with [Carl] Newman's incomparable, lispy vocals."[9]

Track listing

  1. The Party Rages On
  2. Oh That Atkinson Girl
  3. Rosecrans Boulevard
  4. Platinum Is Best Served Cold
  5. Evil Black Magic
  6. Temptation Summary
  7. I Dig You
  8. Wraparound Shades
  9. Snowflakes and Heartaches
  10. Jeez-Louise
  11. (She's a) Full-Blooded Sicilian
  12. Let There Be Girls - The Hardship Post (Bonus Track)[10]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Look What the Rookie Did. Sub Pop Records.
  2. Web site: Zumpano | Biography & History. AllMusic.
  3. Book: Have Not Been the Same: The CanRock Renaissance, 1985-1995. Michael. Barclay. Ian A. D.. Jack. Jason. Schneider. June 28, 2011. ECW Press. 9781554909681. Google Books.
  4. Web site: Zumpano . October 28, 2020 . Trouser Press . en-US.
  5. Book: Fontana, Kaitlin. Fresh at Twenty: The Oral History of Mint Records. October 28, 2011. ECW Press. 9781770900523. Google Books.
  6. Web site: RELENTLESS SATELLITE. Mark. Jenkins. August 4, 1995. www.washingtonpost.com.
  7. Web site: Reviews. CMJ New Music Monthly. February 28, 1995. CMJ Network, Inc.. Google Books.
  8. Web site: Lost Classics: Pre-New Pornographers Carl Newman. April 1, 2009.
  9. Web site: 100 Records That Rocked 100 Issues of Exclaim!. exclaim.ca.
  10. Web site: Look What the Rookie Did . November 8, 1994 .

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