MAYDAY MURDERS
Mayday Murders (Fire Records)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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This is definitely one record where the recording quality is almost as integral to the album as the music itself. All of the songs on this wonderful, beautiful little E.P. are recorded in this scratchy, echoey way that sounds as though this is a slab of vinyl from the '40s, since stored in a box in less-than-ideal conditions and played on a Califone record player, one with the speakers built into the player itself. The music itself ranges from guitar-heavy garage rock to something close to fingerpickin' country, which would make for a disparate collection of songs if they didn't have the aforementioned thematic recording quality tying the record together.

[Pick this up at music.kelkoo.co.uk.]

© 2004 - Holly Day