Those of you who listened to Toadcast #180 – The Corsicast (which is all of you, right? right?) will have already been introduced to the rather excellent Mavis the Dog. This is their second album and can be downloaded for free from the band's website here . Given what I am listening to at the moment would you be at all surprised to hear that this is really lo-fi? Grumbly, buried vocals and plenty of fuzz on the instrumentation - pretty much classic Happy Toad at the moment. Instead of being angry garage [...]
This podcast was recorded - not a word of a lie - on a deserted mountaintop in Corsica in the shadow of a ruined castle. Not an especially enormous ruined castle, I'll grant you, but the shadow of a ruined castle nevertheless. I will try and show you this as clearly as possible when I choose the picture for the mp3 tag and all that stuff, but I honestly doubt it will be all that easy. Vast panoramas of rocky mountains don't really come across all that well in photos, particularly when the only device you have with [...]
Genre: LoFi Folk/Pop Label: self Reminds me a lot of early early of Montreal and the whole Elephant 6 Collective stuff. Sunshine pop & lousy quality Lousy quality, good music. Like a lollipop that fell into the dirt. Somehow ... Checkout the sample and download for free from his website (along with another album) [mp3] Mavis The Dog - 03 - Throw Me a Stone [mp3] Mavis The Dog - 12 - Susie in the [ This is the summary, read the [...]
Mavis The Dog is some dude from Philly named Scott Olsen who's making some totally weird but also totally awesome lo-fi jams. He hasn't told me anything and there really ain't that much to it so what else should I say except that I'm absolutely stoked right now on the lazy, sundrenched suburban early afternoon melancholia that's dripping out of every note on Olsen's "second album" which is up for free right here . Mavis The Dog - Too Sad to Move Mavis The Dog - Susie in [...]
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