Folk Implosion: Dare To Be Surprised (white vinyl) LP

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It's easy to forget just how deeply weird the 1990s were. It was a time when one could sit down with one's father as he watched NASCAR on TV and hear "Natural One" by The Folk Implosion - their song inescapably employed as bumper music before the next commercial break. One gets the sense it was a little confusing for The Folk Implosion's John Davis and Lou Barlow, too. They were in the middle of recording "Dare To Be Surprised", the follow-up to their 1994 debut album, "Take A Look Inside", when it happened. When "Natural One", one of the handful of songs and instrumental tracks they'd contributed to the soundtrack of the now infamous Harmony Korine/Larry Clark film "KIDS", blew up it could've changed the calculus - the opportunity was there to scrap what they’d been working on and start over with major-label money - but they elected instead to stay the course, confident in the process. It seems a bit of a shame from this remove that "Dare To Be Surprised" was destined to live in the shadow of the "KIDS" soundtrack's success. What this album was, it's clear now, is the sound of a band truly finding its feet, and forging something genuinely new in the process.