Lonely
Trailer - Multimeteor
other
releases by Lonely Trailer
What, you ask, is LONELY TRAILERall
about? Avant-pop mind-fry musings with some subtle and scintillating
guitar work, the freakiest three part harmonies this side
of Brian Wilson’s wet dreams/nightmares, and
cavalierly cathartic/kinetic drumming, that’s what. Mutlimeteor is
the latest installment of sensational art-pop shenanigans
from this highly prolific and under-appreciated trio --Champaign-Urbana’s "least
known" band. They don’t sound like other bands;
it’s just a feeling they give you. But if you smeared The
Band’s layered vocal sleight-of-tongue on a slice
of the quirk-laden pop of XTC’s Drums & Wires or English
Settlement , that would be close. They’ve got a
CD and Best Of… DCD previously on Mud, and they’re
prepared to release hundreds of tunes once they get the nod.
As Multimeteor flashes across indie-pop’s twinkling
consciousness, the backcatalog beckons like the Milky Way.
Lonely Trailer: the GBV of 2003.
This
new, "enhanced" CD
features videos (including clips from their locally famous
PBS concert special recorded during a ride on C-U’s
nationally recognized public transportation system -- the
bus, and it really is a nice bus system, too) plus wacky
animation, and odd, artful, hallucinatory ghostings attributed
to drummer Brian Reedy’s visual art skills…
Multimeteor features the
supernatural bass-strangling of ex-Lovecup genius/recluse
T.J. Harrison. |
