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La Plata (En Mi Carrito De Lata)Canibalismo 2012 via Barbes
"What started as an Italo-disco renaissance has now become a new-wave-robo-futuristic revamp. This double album is a behemoth, complete with epic, lonely instrumentals and a running theme that could be the soundtrack to a modern day film noir. Couple that with one of the best Neil Young covers ever as an opener and you have something truly special." -Another Dying Artform
Produced by Richard Swift
Beachwood Sparks are from Los Angeles. A Daily Telegraph article on America's underground psychedelic pop scene described Beachwood Sparks as "country through a kaleidoscope"
"Waterhouse writes bummed and bitter three-minute songs with horn stabs and maracas drenched in period aesthetics. Waterhouse is 25, a big music geek, and has been building an identity from an idealized past he spent his high school years exploring by way of vinyl stacking." -Washington City Paper
"Banga is the 65-year-old's 11th album, one of the most satisfying of her latterday career. A performance poet before she ever got a band together, Smith's electrified presence and aggressive, incantatory style – part Dylan, part Jersey girl – have always aspired to a frequency that you might call sacred, if that word hadn't been sullied by the so-called new age." -Kitty Empire, The Observer
In 1993 she moved to Michigan where she became the voice of the folk/rock band Marzuki, an ensemble assembled and co-led by Sufjan Stevens. When Marzuki disbanded, Stephens moved to Seattle and embarked on a solo career, recording her self-titled debut LP in 1999.
performing at FMG with Andrew Bird on July 15!