Brimming with delicious simplicity, Psapp's 2006 release The Only Thing I Ever Wanted grooves blissfully between post-rock and ossa nova. The duo of singer Galia Durant and studio guru Carim Clasmann swish through 11 hypnotic melodies built on a sample-based pop some call clunktronica, rife with everything from horns and maracas to squeaky floorboards and crumpling paper. Live instruments such as piano, brushed percussion, and xylophone comprise most of the musical samples, creating a powerful hybrid of earthy folk and sophisticated electronica. Durant lays her rich, sultry voice over this rootsy instrumentation -- sounding very much like a more vocally gifted Nico -- while Clasmann weaves all the odd parts together in the studio. This combination of quirky sounds and suave production lands the disc in musical territory that feels at once both innovative and familiar; something like Beck, Björk, and Velvet Underground meeting in a lazy Rio cantina only to discover they've all been listening to Stereolab and Nouvelle Vague. The album varies in texture from humidly sensual to wildly bohemian but never simultaneously. Instead, each new mood washes in and out on its own in a style that remains unfettered, a remarkable effect for a record that is otherwise such a curious conflagration of sounds.
You know how a certain song or album will match your mood perfectly? I've found that song for me today. I'm not even sure where the track came from, but apparently I bought it on the iTunes Store at some point and came across it randomly in my library today.The song is Tricycle by Psapp, a band I'd not heard of until I found this song. I went ahead and bought the whole album from the iTunes Sto...
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mmmm i have today off. today is the day i get my new piece. i am thinking about a bubbler, but i want to see what they have first. so, yesterday, i got my paycheck. and in an absolute fit of downloading-guilt, i went to volume. volume's my favorite record store in the area, i've been coming since i was about 10 - the owner's different now, but he's cool and actually about my age, which i thin
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i can always remember what i was doing the moment i saw this video. takes a special kind of song to do that, i think.
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mmmm i have today off. today is the day i get my new piece. i am thinking about a bubbler, but i want to see what they have first. so, yesterday, i got my paycheck. and in an absolute fit of downloading-guilt, i went to volume. volume's my favorite record store in the area, i've been coming since i was about 10 - the owner's different now, but he's cool and actually about my age, which i thin
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You know how a certain song or album will match your mood perfectly? I've found that song for me today. I'm not even sure where the track came from, but apparently I bought it on the iTunes Store at some point and came across it randomly in my library today.The song is Tricycle by Psapp, a band I'd not heard of until I found this song. I went ahead and bought the whole album from the iTunes Sto...
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