A lo-fi pop record worth checking...from Throw Me the Statue
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I mentioned this band -- which is really more of a solo project -- over the holidays. Now, the record's out and my review's up. Only four people took a chance on this song last time I was hawking it...why not give it a spin now? Throw Me the StatueMoonbeams(Secretly Canadian)US release date: 19 February 2008UK release date: 18 February 2008by Jennifer KellyOne Young Sensualist Drowning in Pop MelodicismScott Reitherman, the singer, main songwriter, and creative force behind Seattle's Throw Me the Statute, appears in the album art surrounded by computer equipment, a Yamaha keyboard, a melodica, and assorted other paraphernalia. You can tell by the fact that he's barefoot that he's recording somewhere comfortable, if not in his own home, then in someone else's, and by the fact that he's alone in the photo you get the idea that he has, up to this point, pretty much relied on himself to make the songs that wander through his head. And yet with Moonbeams you can hear him, almost song-by-song, making the transition from home-recording dreamer to real-life band leader. These fourteen songs range in texture from raw and confessional ("Young Sensualists") to richly instrumented ("Groundswell"), from synthetically augmented to live and organic. It's a journey worth taking, by all the evidence, because the more communal and band-oriented Reithermann's songs are, the better they sound. More here: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/52914/throw-me-the-statue-moonbeams/
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