03 Aug 2011 — Henning Lahmann
Ronnie Lee of the wonderful blissed-out bedroom pop project
Panda Teeth recently hit me up to draw my attention to his pretty awesome label
Cat People Records, a small operation dedicated to smooth yet experimental leftfield pop. He only recently started to make it "official", so it's a real pleasure for me to introduce you to one of his first releases since getting things organized.
Samuel Merlin Molstad aka
Orchard Thief has actually been around for quite a while now, with the CDr
Work already finished and
subsequently dropped via Cat People in 2009, and fairly recently a cassette on
Fire Talk Records. However, the
Work (Plus) cassette that Lee put out about a month ago is way more than a mere re-release, with "an entire album’s worth of previously unreleased tracks that have just been sitting around on a shelf, un-heard for the last two years". The whole album is a marvelously quiet and melodic piece of outsider pop, far away from anything hype-suspicious yet still very consciously crafted all along.
Listen to the beautiful opening track
On My Back below and order the
Work (Plus) C-60
over here. The album is also available on
bandcamp.
Orchard Thief - On My Back
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Ronnie Lee of the wonderful blissed-out bedroom pop project
Panda Teeth recently hit me up to draw my attention to his pretty awesome label
Cat People Records, a small operation dedicated to smooth yet experimental leftfield pop. He only recently started to make it "official", so it's a real pleasure for me to introduce you to one of his first releases since getting things organized.
Samuel Merlin Molstad aka
Orchard Thief has actually been around for quite a while now, with the CDr
Work already finished and
subsequently dropped via Cat People in 2009, and fairly recently a cassette on
Fire Talk Records. However, the
Work (Plus) cassette that Lee put out about a month ago is way more than a mere re-release, with "an entire album’s worth of previously unreleased tracks that have just been sitting around on a shelf, un-heard for the last two years". The whole album is a marvelously quiet and melodic piece of outsider pop, far away from anything hype-suspicious yet still very consciously crafted all along.
Listen to the beautiful opening track
On My Back below and order the
Work (Plus) C-60
over here. The album is also available on
bandcamp.
Orchard Thief - On My Back
Always delighted to find new Henny Moan tunes up on his Soundcloud, as the London-based master of weird and deranged beats perfectly knows how to transcribe the arcane peculiarities of latter day pop culture into little gems of agreeable if twisted sound infusion, very much like his fans over at HW. Needless to say, Force Feld 1 is no exception.
Henny Moan - Force Feld 1
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