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album cover MUNLY Blurry (Smooch) cd 13.98
We sure do love Slim Cessna's Auto Club. One of our favorite shit kicking, country punk creepy folk ensembles ever. Hailing from the lovely land of Colorado, which also of course gave us Sixteen Horsepower, Woven Hand and Boyd Rice, Slim and his crew are like some wandering band of wild testifyin' redneck gypsies. Slim's mainman and musical sidekick is one Jay Munly, who when not helping create the freaked out end of the world apocalyptic country rock of the Auto Club, spends some quality time on his own making his own music much more personal and somehow WAY weirder. The vibe is certainly similar, but Munly on his own is way more of a loose canon. Mixing fifties rock, with bouncy pop, indie rock jangle, mumbled country blues, his voice swooping from Buddy Holly croon to weird falsetto and back again.
On this, the recently reissued debut from 1996, Munly seems to still be feeling his way around. Or alternately, and maybe much more likely, he just doesn't give a fuck and we just can't get it unless we climb into his head, which we probably won't do cuz it's scary in there. Shambolic and gloriously indifferent to any overreaching sonic theme, Blurry is a series of tweaked pop vignettes. The country twang that would define so much of Munly's later output is hardly present at all, instead this is some sort of damaged indie pop. Fans of Ariel Pink might really dig this, as it is sort of the same ultra personal cracked musical universe. Super lo-fi but surprisingly catchy. We like!
Remastered. Limited to 100 copies.
MPEG Stream: "Virgin Of Manhattan"
MPEG Stream: "Hang On With Eskimos"
MPEG Stream: "Tonto"

album cover MUNLY De Dar He (Alternative Tentacles / Smooch) cd 13.98
We sure do love Slim Cessna's Auto Club. One of our favorite shit kicking, country punk creepy folk ensembles ever. Hailing from the lovely land of Colorado, which also of course gave us Sixteen Horsepower, Woven Hand and Boyd Rice, Slim and his crew are like some wandering band of wild testifyin' redneck gypsies. Slim's mainman and musical sidekick is one Jay Munly, who when not helping create the freaked out end of the world apocalyptic country rock of the Auto Club, spends some quality time on his own making his own music much more personal and somehow WAY weirder. The vibe is certainly similar, but Munly on his own is way more of a loose canon. Mixing fifties rock, with bouncy pop, indie rock jangle, mumbled country blues, his voice swooping from Buddy Holly croon to weird falsetto and back again.
De Dar He is record number two, originally released in 1997 and what a difference a year makes. The twang is now in full effect. You can hear the sound that would later blossom into Munly & The Lee Lewis Harlots as well as Slim Cessna. It's still lo-fi and a little bit scattershot, but the framework is now much more distinctly country. Accordions, harmonicas, steel string twang, the whole deal, but Munly's tweaked pop sensibilities are still plenty present giving these tracks the sort of twisted humor that made us dig him in the first place. While the debut was much more of a random damaged pop gem, this is definitely more of a cool country hoedown, wild and wooly, foot stomping, fiddle sawin', definitely the first step on Munly's path to his future as a swoonsome dark and twisted country folk troubadour. Awesome.
Remastered. Limited to 100 copies.
MPEG Stream: "Chutzpa"
MPEG Stream: "My Erziehung"
MPEG Stream: "Shoot Her With A Good Hand Gun"

album cover MUNLY Munly & The Lee Lewis Harlots (Alternative Tentacles) cd + dvd 15.98
Munly, better known as Jay to his family and friends, is a member in good standing of Slim Cessna's Auto Club, one of our favorite sort of punk, sort of country, sort of creepy folk outfits, who hail from the fine state of Colorado. But as they say, there's something rotten in Colorado. Well, maybe they don't say that now, but they soon will. A beautiful state full of forests and snow and wildlife and mountains, has somehow become the home to the droning confrontational misanthropy of Boyd Rice, the swampy downer folk of Sixteen Horsepower, the crushing, biblical damnation of the Woven Hand, the snake oil selling country punk revival of Slim Cessna and now Munly, a bastard musical mutt incorporating bits and pieces of all the above mentioned misanthropes and miscreants. And we couldn't be more pleased. Munly definitely sounds like a head on collision between Slim Cessna and the Woven Hand. Dark and swoonsome, seasickly swampy dirges, with shuffling graveyard percussion, strummed acoustic guitars, minor key strings, fiery fiddles and banjoes. But unlike the rollicking punkiness of Cessna's Autoclub, Munly is a much darker proposition. Lurching like a strangely hideous beast, only ever glimpsed at dusk and only out of the corner of your eye, and always sending shivers down your spine. And while occasionally, the tempo does pick up, it's only the tempo that does, the mood remains one of hopelessness, bitterness and broken heartedness. And while Munly mostly sings in an ominous tenor, hovering somewhere between 16HP's David Eugene Edwards and Nick Cave, often the vocals go completely nuts: yodelling, falsetto trills, soulful female background vocals and even throat singing. And unlike the Woven Hand's stonefaced fire and brimstone proclamations from the pulpit, Munly is most definitely having fun, still warning you about the coming rapture, but at the same time planning to live it up right until the end. He also seems to be taking the piss once in a while. Which is actually pretty satisfying. Singing along, this could almost be the Woven Hand's more rambunctious less headed-for-doom little brother, but on closer inspection, the lyrics are pretty amazingly funny and absurd, tales of vampires, enemas (in the same song!) and various other seemingly unlikely topics. Enough to even make us laugh out loud a couple times. And all of these bizarre elements coalesce perfectly into perfect songs: beautiful and moving, funny and almost rocking, groovy and hypnotic, emotional and dark dark dark, but at the same time super dramatic (almost ridiculously so), campy and flat out WEIRD.
Comes with a bonus disc: a surround sound DVD audio version of the whole record!
MPEG Stream: "Another Song About Jesus, A wedding Sheet And A Bowie Knife"
MPEG Stream: "Cassius Castrato The She-Male Of The Mens Prison"

album cover MUNLY, JAY Galvanized Yankee (Smooch) cd 10.98

MPEG Stream: "Funeral Blues"
MPEG Stream: "All Men Are Divine"
MPEG Stream: "Pretty Saro"

album cover MUNLY, JAY Jimmy Carter Syndrome (Smooch) cd 11.98

MPEG Stream: "My Darling Sambo"
MPEG Stream: "Circle Round My Bedside"

album cover SLIM CESSNA'S AUTO CLUB Buried Behind The Barn (Alternative Tenatacles) cd 10.98
It's been a while since we've heard from Slim Cessna, whose Auto Club remain to this day one of our favorite bands of country punks, along with Munly, Slim's partner in musical crime. We were under the impression that maybe SCAC were no more, which could still be true (and which would make us very very sad) as this is in fact not a new record, but is a collection of B-sides, unreleased tracks and odds and ends, from the beginning of this century. But these guys are so good, even their castoffs and never-weres are better than most bands' best. And yep, these jams are indeed killer, dark and twangy, catchy, brooding and mysterious, like a more wry and less end-of-the-world Woven Hand or Sixteen Horsepower, no surprise that they hail from the same place. But yeah, if you like that sort of apocalyptic grim folk, or dark twangy swampy country, the sound of SCAC should definitely hit the spot. Then the only consideration is whether you dig these guys' irreverence, which is not difficult as for the most part it's pretty subtle. The weird thing is that a lot of this stuff here sounds like the Old 97's, the -OLD- Old 97's, when they were great, mostly due to the vocals, but the same sort of twangy country rock, and wry twisted lyrics, also folks into the Decemberists might find a lot to like here. Not a bad place to start, we might suggest getting The Bloody Tenent Truth Peace first, but some of the tracks here definitely rank among their best, and for the most part Buried Behind The Barn is a much more serious and straight up country record, the humor and 'punk' much more subtle than on some of the other Slim Cessna records. Regardless, another great collection of songs from these guys, and here's hoping this is just to hold us over for a forthcoming brand new full length...
MPEG Stream: "Cranston"
MPEG Stream: "Port Authority Band"
MPEG Stream: "Angel"

album cover SLIM CESSNA'S AUTO CLUB Unentitled (Alternative Tentacles) cd 13.98
Latest batch of end of the world, country twang, revivalist apocalyptic swamp folk from these Colorado cowboy punks, the perfect follow up to last year's Buried Behind The Barn, and while in the early days these guys were most definitely taking the piss, it's been long enough that any irreverence has become less schtick, and more just a part of what these guys do, and what these guys do, is something similar to groups like Woven Hand and Sixteen Horsepower (the vocals sound a lot like David Eugene Edwards, which is weird cuz Mr. Cessna used to sound just like Rhett Miller from the Old '97s!), Uncle Tupelo, X, Munly (he is after all ALSO in the Auto Club) and yeah the Old 97's, but also the Decemberists, Arcade Fire and the like, shuffly, twangy, with a sound that slips from
Devil-Went-Down-To-Georgia style country rock, to more dark and minimal folky twang, there's even some gospel going on, especially on the tracks that sound like some deep South faith healer tent revival meeting, call and response vocals, handclaps, but all wrapped up with slide guitar, banjo, lush haunting harmonies, and some seriously kick ass catchiness.
The production is surprisingly lush this time around too, lots of organ, transforming Cessna's hillbilly stomp into something much more moody and brooding, and it suits them for sure, just give the record opener a listen, the awesomely titled "Three Bloodhounds Two Shepherds One Fila Brasileiro", gorgeously grim and ominous, minor key and moody, but it's also loose and fun, a tall tale told in sound by a master story teller, and of all the tracks here, this is the one that most sounds like Woven Hand, and definitely hints at what these guys could pull off if they weren't such inveterate jokers. "The Unballed Ballad Of The New Folksinger" (also an awesome title), starts out with an organ heavy almost ska sounding groove, driven by a bouncy rhythm, lots of buzz and twang, woozy spidery riffs, and some awesome intense vocals, the song getting more intense and dramatic as it goes, there's even a strange deep voiced breakdown before the song launches right back into it. "Thy Will Be Done" is another bluegrassy twang flecked stomp, with a super dynamic start stop ominous cautionary chorus. And so it goes, the only respite from this damned-soul sonic sermonizing, the woozy ballad "A Smashing Indictment Of Character", weeping slide guitars, over hushed hazy vocals, but even here, Cessna and his crew can't resist the temptation to pepper the track with more of that handclapping revivalism, and some low slung banjo driven verses to boot, and while the track revisits that opening dreamy drift, it's only briefly, there's more testifyin to be done after all. And so it goes, track after track: buzz, twang, shuffle, croon, howl, pound, stomp, hook, howl, repeat. AWESOME.
It's hard not to love these guys, they're obviously such incredible musicians, and have a killer sense of humor, and to see them live, it's sort of what you wish all shows were like, wild and loose, and totally rocking, super fun, and funny, the kind of show you never want to end, and after a while you're almost convinced that this amazing music is in fact some sort of salvation, and remarkably, these guys manage to capture at least some of that fire and energy on record!
MPEG Stream: "Three Bloodhounds Two Shepherds One Fila Brasileiro"
MPEG Stream: "Thy Will Be Done"
MPEG Stream: "A Smashing Indictment Of Character"

album cover SLIM CESSNA'S AUTO CLUB Unentitled (Alternative Tentacles) lp 13.98
Latest batch of end of the world, country twang, revivalist apocalyptic swamp folk from these Colorado cowboy punks, the perfect follow up to last year's Buried Behind The Barn, and while in the early days these guys were most definitely taking the piss, it's been long enough that any irreverence has become less schtick, and more just a part of what these guys do, and what these guys do, is something similar to groups like Woven Hand and Sixteen Horsepower (the vocals sound a lot like David Eugene Edwards, which is weird cuz Mr. Cessna used to sound just like Rhett Miller from the Old '97s!), Uncle Tupelo, X, Munly (he is after all ALSO in the Auto Club) and yeah the Old 97's, but also the Decemberists, Arcade Fire and the like, shuffly, twangy, with a sound that slips from
Devil-Went-Down-To-Georgia style country rock, to more dark and minimal folky twang, there's even some gospel going on, especially on the tracks that sound like some deep South faith healer tent revival meeting, call and response vocals, handclaps, but all wrapped up with slide guitar, banjo, lush haunting harmonies, and some seriously kick ass catchiness.
The production is surprisingly lush this time around too, lots of organ, transforming Cessna's hillbilly stomp into something much more moody and brooding, and it suits them for sure, just give the record opener a listen, the awesomely titled "Three Bloodhounds Two Shepherds One Fila Brasileiro", gorgeously grim and ominous, minor key and moody, but it's also loose and fun, a tall tale told in sound by a master story teller, and of all the tracks here, this is the one that most sounds like Woven Hand, and definitely hints at what these guys could pull off if they weren't such inveterate jokers. "The Unballed Ballad Of The New Folksinger" (also an awesome title), starts out with an organ heavy almost ska sounding groove, driven by a bouncy rhythm, lots of buzz and twang, woozy spidery riffs, and some awesome intense vocals, the song getting more intense and dramatic as it goes, there's even a strange deep voiced breakdown before the song launches right back into it. "Thy Will Be Done" is another bluegrassy twang flecked stomp, with a super dynamic start stop ominous cautionary chorus. And so it goes, the only respite from this damned-soul sonic sermonizing, the woozy ballad "A Smashing Indictment Of Character", weeping slide guitars, over hushed hazy vocals, but even here, Cessna and his crew can't resist the temptation to pepper the track with more of that handclapping revivalism, and some low slung banjo driven verses to boot, and while the track revisits that opening dreamy drift, it's only briefly, there's more testifyin to be done after all. And so it goes, track after track: buzz, twang, shuffle, croon, howl, pound, stomp, hook, howl, repeat. AWESOME.
It's hard not to love these guys, they're obviously such incredible musicians, and have a killer sense of humor, and to see them live, it's sort of what you wish all shows were like, wild and loose, and totally rocking, super fun, and funny, the kind of show you never want to end, and after a while you're almost convinced that this amazing music is in fact some sort of salvation, and remarkably, these guys manage to capture at least some of that fire and energy on record!
MPEG Stream: "Three Bloodhounds Two Shepherds One Fila Brasileiro"
MPEG Stream: "Thy Will Be Done"
MPEG Stream: "A Smashing Indictment Of Character"

album cover TIMESBOLD Ill Seen Ill Sung (Zeal) cd 11.98
Hard to believe it's been nearly a decade since we first heard Timesbold, and come to think of it, it's been almost as long since we've heard any new recordings from these guys. We originally discovered them, when aQ fave Greg Weeks was performing in town, and the opening act was none other than Timesbold, whose sound was a dizzying hybrid of mournful dark country dirgery, lush experimental pop, and a certain classic country rock vibe. We compared them to Palace, Songs:Ohia, Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, Neil Young and the Band. And somehow these guys did channel all of those, into something entirely their own.
This record is not new, it's from 2008, and we can't tell when it was recorded, could be even older, and heck, we're not even sure if these guys are still a band, but what we do know, is it's so good to hear them again, and these songs take up right where their self titled record on Blue Sanct left off.
Lush instrumentation, banjo, organs, big guitars, slippery slide, moaning cellos, crystalline harmonics, urgent steel string strum, the drums slipping from shuffle to pound and back again, the sound warm and lush, twangy and surprisingly rocking, a darkened country drift melded to an apocalyptic swamp folk, the vocals super distinctive, emotional and heartfelt, very reminiscent of Will Oldham and Jason Molina (of Songs:Ohia), fragile, often on the verge of cracking, yet still powerful, the songs smolder and brood, occasionally introspective and minimal, but also occasionally explosive and intense, the songs rife with subtle hooks, all the hallmarks of classic country folk, but wreathed in experimental tendencies, and a wide reaching sonic palette. It's a shame these guys aren't more well known, these songs, all of their records, this is most definitely the kind of thing that would inspire some serious obsessiveness in fans of Palace, Souled American, 16 Horsepower, Woven Hand, Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat, Munly, the Decemberists, Low Anthem, Sparklehorse, Giant Sand and other purveyors of dark twang...
Really fantastic!
MPEG Stream: "Old Hannah"
MPEG Stream: "Any Lethal Storm"
MPEG Stream: "All Readymade"
MPEG Stream: "Takeaway"

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