STILL SINGLE

A space for thoughts on music and culture, as written by Doug Mosurock and a select handful of individuals. This is intended as a supplement to our regular feature Still Single, published on Dusted Magazine. Updates will run here more frequently, and may feature writing on music not covered in the column. Compact discs are still not accepted for review -- we have more than enough vinyl and the occasional cassette to worry about.

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January 25, 2011

Directorsound – Before the March 7” EP (Tona Serenad)

Understated fairground melancholy, not unlike some of the more drug-smashed passages on The Thinking Fellers’ Mother of All Saints – the stuff that wasn’t “Feller Filler” but wasn’t quite fully realized, either. That’s not entirely fair to this record, actually, as this is very beautiful and organic instrumental … pop? Could be skiffle, with its lack of modern reference points, but I don’t normally take to anything resembling skiffle, or any pre-Vietnam War music at all, truthfully. This is a chunk out of Two Years Today, the latest full length by multi-instrumentalist Nicholas Palmer, who last popped up seven years ago on Geographic/Domino with Redemptive Strikes. It’s a very human-sounding effort, very catchy if not altogether beautiful, and quite scarce at 300 hand-numbered copies, so if you’re interested, hop to it! (http://www.tonaserenad.com) (Andrew Earles)

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