A ForTheDishwasher regular who shall remain nameless (chico) was complaining a few days ago, and these were his exact words:
"Leclisse, you hoser, make me feel young again and start posting newer music on your blog, you handsome Sexican, you...eh? Zed."
Thank God I speak Canadia (I'm blessed with a girlfriend from that tribe, so I know what "hoser" "eh" and "Zed" mean. Can you believe that "Zed" means the letter "Z"!?!), therefore I knew what he was asking.
So...now that I'm being forced into this Fountain of Youth fiasco, here's Margot & the Nuclear So and So's first album. This is what all the kids are getting jiggy with, chico. But it's not auto-tuned.
From Alyssa Rashbaum at Spin:
On their debut album, Margot & the Nuclear So & So’s present the kind of idealistic vision of New York City's Greenwich Village that can only be imagined in earnest by someone living in the Midwest.
Far removed from the boutiques and falafel joints that currently inhabit the neighborhood, the Indiana-bred band presents a vision of what the area might have felt, sounded, and looked like in the 1960s. In this case, the majority of the population was apparently well read, and either devastatingly melancholy/drug-addled or alarmingly optimistic.
To create a sound that broad in its spectrum, Margot founders Richard Edwards and Andy Fry recruited six other musicians: Jesse Lee (cello), Emily Watkins (piano), Hubert Glover (trumpet), Chris Fry (drums), Casey Tennis (drums, assorted other banged-on objects), and Tyler Watkis (electric bass). The resulting debut, The Dust of Retreat, is a chamber pop confection that makes occasional detours into modern rock.
The tracks act as mini-screenplays which unfold into romantic sagas ("Skeleton Key," "Jen Is Bringin' the Drugs"), or include detours into dialogue ("On a Freezing Chicago Street") are highly literate with the exception of the saccharine "Paper Kitten Nightmare" which features Edwards crooning "meow meow meow" -- seriously. On "Quiet as a Mouse," nearly every member of the band gets a turn in the spotlight with string-heavy sections, a horn solo, a piano-driven opening, and a grizzled, guitar-heavy chorus in which Edwards warns, "Wake up, the sun is rising without you."
It's not an album you're likely to hear in any Village venue now, but it's just wistful enough that you can picture that leather-clad kid on Macdougal wearing tweed and quoting Burroughs.
Technical Information:
Artist: Margot & the Nuclear So and So's
Album: The Dust of Retreat
Year: 2006
Audio Codec(s): FLAC
Encoding: Lossless
Rip: EAC split tracks
Avg. bitrate: 820 kb/s
Sample rate: 44100 Hz
Bits per sample: 16
Channels: 2
File size: 264 MB
Length: 0:45:05
Personnel:
Richard Edwards: vocals, guitars, bells, synth, melodica, banjo, percussion
Andy Fry: guitars, bass, synth, lap steel, melodica, banjo, percussion
Jesse Lee: cello
Emily Watkins: piano
Hubert Glover: trumpet
Chris Fry: drums
Casey Tennis: drums, percussion
Tyler Watkis: electric bass
Tracklisting:
01. A Sea Chanty of Sorts (4:35)
02. On a Freezing Chicago Street (3:03)
03. Vampires in Blue Dresses (3:24)
04. Quiet as a Mouse (4:37)
05. Jen Is Bringin' the Drugs (2:50)
06. Barfight Revolution, Power Violence (3:40)
07. Dress Me Like a Clown (4:37)
08. Skeleton Key (4:00)
09. Paper Kitten Nightmare (3:30)
10. A Light on a Hill (3:48)
11. Talking in Code (3:47)
12. Bookworm (3:16)
The Dust of Retreat Megaupload Link