Missus Torrents
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I came across www.legaltorrents.com yesterday and have heard some great music as a result. Somebody put together a torrent of albums from last November's National Solo Album Month (where the hell was I when they announced this, anyway?), and they're a lot of fun.
I'm particularly grooving on Walkathon's Misguided Missle, which has all the insulated, freewheeling fun of the bedroom PC-enabled solo album, with superfun melodies, crazy digressions, and some obvious influences - especially Jeff Lynne and the Stephin Merritt/Magnetic Fields oeuvre. I particularly like his party-chorus vocals, which is something I've played with before in my own stuff.
"Rockathon" would be at home on a Polyphonic Spree record, and it crashes into the bizarre drugged-out weekday afternoon "One Through Eight." "Impervious" sounds like the lost collaboration between Air and the Magnetic Fields. In fact, the backing tracks for both "Floor Beneath My Feet" and "Joe Mama Besser" sound so much like classic Merritt that I wanna start warbling lyrics about trains in my best basso magnetico. I like "Giant Shoes" a lot too. It reminds me of that sloppy, early 70's-era Brother Records era Beach Boys.
You can get the torrent file at http://www.legaltorrents.com/index.php?fuse=187
I came across www.legaltorrents.com yesterday and have heard some great music as a result. Somebody put together a torrent of albums from last November's National Solo Album Month (where the hell was I when they announced this, anyway?), and they're a lot of fun.
I'm particularly grooving on Walkathon's Misguided Missle, which has all the insulated, freewheeling fun of the bedroom PC-enabled solo album, with superfun melodies, crazy digressions, and some obvious influences - especially Jeff Lynne and the Stephin Merritt/Magnetic Fields oeuvre. I particularly like his party-chorus vocals, which is something I've played with before in my own stuff.
"Rockathon" would be at home on a Polyphonic Spree record, and it crashes into the bizarre drugged-out weekday afternoon "One Through Eight." "Impervious" sounds like the lost collaboration between Air and the Magnetic Fields. In fact, the backing tracks for both "Floor Beneath My Feet" and "Joe Mama Besser" sound so much like classic Merritt that I wanna start warbling lyrics about trains in my best basso magnetico. I like "Giant Shoes" a lot too. It reminds me of that sloppy, early 70's-era Brother Records era Beach Boys.
You can get the torrent file at http://www.legaltorrents.com/index.php?fuse=187
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