Audio CD (7 Aug. 2006)
Number of Discs: 1
Format: CD
Label: Poptones
The Singleman Affair have made songs that sit comfortably alongside Devendra Banhart, Flaming Lips, Notorious Byrds Brothers and Leonard Cohen. Using the same recording techniques as his hero Skip Spence, The Singleman Affair use old reverb units and spacious room mics to give each song a haunting dreamy feeling.
Recorded at home on a dime, The Singleman Affair s critically acclaimed Let s Kill The Summer album truly came out of left-field and was quickly hailed by musical peers throughout. After being personally selected as tour support for Wilco side project The Autumn Defense on their 2007 U.S. tour, they have just returned from their first European Tour where their shows have already gained legendary status in the old country. This is the U.S. release of that record, with 2 bonus tracks and an updated digipak. This record was originally released in the UK in 2007 on Alan McGee s now defunct Poptones label. Derivative perhaps, yet strangely unaffected, the songs speak for themselves, beautiful & utterly compelling, from the cinematic sitar-drench of opener, Is Madras Morning Is to the drone chord of Dragonflies To Find , Let s Kill The Summer is a beautiful journey that keeps moving on: through the ghosts of Cohen s Famous Blue Raincoat , through Midnight Cowboy, Morricone, Cat Stevens, and Tim Buckley.... The Singleman Affair is Dan Schneider, a one-man Jandek at war with himself trying to create iconic, timeless, classic songs. A short time spent in the company of Lets Kill The Summer will find the listener indoctrinated into the grooves of dusty old 7"s, peppered with references to the Byrds, Scott Walker, Ananda Shankar, Leonard Cohen, Fred Neil and less known cult artists such as McDonald and Giles and Christine Harwood. Let s Kill The Summer is esoteric, atmospheric. Schneider has set out with some home recordings to make extraordinary songs that seem to exist in their own place & time, sitting comfortably today, perhaps, alongside the likes of Devendra Banhart and Animal Collective. Using the same recording techniques as his hero Skip Spence, The Singleman Affair have used old reverb units and spacious room mic s to give each song a haunting, expansive
Review
A truly unexpected gem. --Mojo
Full of sitar, delicate guitar lines and introspective echo box vocals. A drowsy classic to sink your mind into. --Dazed & Confused
A luminous psych folk delight sounds like it might have been recorded in 1968. --Time Out
CD: Singleman Affair - Lets Kill the Summer
YEAR: 2006
01. Is madras morning is
02. Dragonflies to find
03. Eyelids in light
04. If is isnt to leave and be left
05. Baby you've been on my mind
06. Dont leave by the sunlight
07. Little sister
08. Summer rain
09. Oh to say
10. Dont come back
11. Good to be with you again
12. Sun in your eyes
13. To bid farewell and say goodbye
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