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• Artist: Boister
• Album: Buster Keaton
• Label: boister.net
• Year of Release: 2006
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• Reviewed by: patchen on 2006-08-21

Music written and performed live for a showing of the Buster Keaton film "Our Hospitality" in Baltimore in 2005, this is a comforting collection of whimsical and absurd tunes. Boister have always sought the middle ground between the sad and happy, the future and memory, home and the road. Like Keaton, they never really let one in on where their sympathies lie. Pick any song here and you'll find the epic struggle, but standouts include "Sheep May Graze Safely" "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner" and "Chiam/Home." Every song Boister have ever written contains more emotional ideas to chew on than most hymnals, but when they are really on, as in "Homestead(Do You Really Know What It's Like To Miss New Orleans)" or "War Machine", you are overwhelmed and comforted. Buster Keaton, like Harold Lloyd was always at his best when he took risks for the audience, and let us inside enough to know that everything was going to be alright. Boister also show us that heaven and hell are just opposite sides of the same bar.

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