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
