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| From | "Paul Myers" <pulmyears@gmail.com> |
| Subject | FOW and XTC, Super Tuesday (april 3) |
| Date | Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:04:53 -0700 |
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Just a couple of things that Auditeers may want to audit with their ears.
I don't know if anyone has noted this but you can listen to samples of the
entire Fountains of Wayne Traffic and Weather album (out next Tuesday) over
at Amazon.com. I listened to all the samples and I predict that I will love
this one as much as Utopia Parkway. And it's commercial sounding enough that
OKGO will have to temporarily hand them the honorary pop band key to the
charts. We only get one key / band per season. Now if only FOW could operate
a treadmill...
And considering that I'm such a huge XTC nerd, it's odd that I only just
discovered that Andy Partridge has a new prog rock trio with former XTC
keyboardist Barry Andrews (back after 29 years!!!). The band is called
Monstrance and the album "drops" on Tuesday as well. Salon.com has a free
Mp3 on their Audiofile column page. (that may be for subscribers only
though). Amazon.com also has an exclusive video of Monstrance playing one of
their pieces.
My first reaction is that, as a fan of Partridge's excursions in
instrumental music (the HomoSafari series and his work with Harold Budd) I
like it. But to the casual XTC fan (are there any?) it may remind them of
when Andy Summers strays too far from Sting. Except that Partridge was
always his own Sting.
Now get back to work.
Paul Myers
Berkeley, CA
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