The Musicmen Cometh!
This is the marriage of two musical minds, Josh Bain and Nolan Ross. Friends since high school, they've seen the seven wonders of the world, jumped from helicopters, hang-glided, climbed Mt. Everest, and even offered jokes over dinner with Bono, Springsteen, Clapton, and others.
Okay, none of that is true except the friends since high school part. Nonetheless, these guys love music and love talking about it. We hope you enjoy it.
EP’ing
Looks like a handful of people are skipping the ‘ole LP process and giving us fun treats in the form of the ever-faithful, EP. Extended Play, for you Lester Bangs-wannabes.
Tomorrow, Spoon releases the Got Nuffin EP. The title track is vintage Spoon and everything you love about them all over again. Nothing new here, which if, I’m Britt Daniel’s coach, I’m telling him to keep shooting the ball. ”Tweakers” is just a bunch of lo-fi drumming sounds that I can’t imagine many people putting on mixtapes across the U.S. Unless they’re one of those drummer freaks who always talk about that one dude from Rush and how “ahh-mazing” he is. And how amazing a drummer this guy in that other band is and how they are so much better than that dude from your favorite band. ”Stroke their brains” is a fun track, though!
Mew also has an EP out this week (if my European website research serves me right) that will blow your mind! I say that, because everyone I know who’s into Mew always says crap like that. They do, fortunately, blow my mind at times. How coincidental. The EP is called, No More Stories, which I really like, and wish I had thought of. And if you read that last sentence and noticed me ending in a preposition, well don’t bother me, because at least I’m telling you about Mew’s new treat for you and once you forget about the preposition and remember that your mind will be blown approximately at the time the 1:16 second mark in the first track called, “Introducing Palace Players” is, you’ll forgive me. But seriously, the first song has this really crazy off-beat, but half on-beat sound to it, and then you hear the ah, familiar sound of Jonas’ extremely high pitched singing two minutes in and it really makes it all worth it. The preposition and my verbose writing and all. ”Repeaterbeater” is doubly fun, with the nice 80s intro that I thought I heard The Cure do once, or maybe it was, Joy Division. Who cares. The song’s chorus is infectious and nonstop elevation of hooks.
Get these two EPs as soon as you can. Just trust me on these.
