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December 12, 2005
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Cutest Puppy in the World - Venus Fly Trap
With 'Venus Fly Trap' you can sit on the beach and watch a slow set of slide guitar notes come rolling in, see how the cap of each wave crests and curls inward, under the weight of dense, foamy keyboard phrases. At 4:24, the guitar sounds like it's calling out a name, over and over again. Listen, at 6:40, to the way the song moves along the spectrum: from placid to turbulent.
Cutest Puppy in the World are an improv(!) duo, and have a live CD coming out on the excellent Sockets CDR label (which is run by Sean P., the man behind FFFFs and half of Hand-Fed Babies), sometime around the middle of January. You can listen to some more of the band's material over on their other site, right here. Also great is Layne Garrett's (half of Cutest Puppy in the World) solo improv material, which he releases under the name Space Superiority Is Not Our Birthright, But It Is Our Destiny- and you can listen to (and enjoy) that right here.
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Just saw this yesterday: Sunset Rubdown have signed to Absolutely Kosher (for their US label, still with (the great) Global Symphonic in Canada). Notice, as mentioned before here and elsewhere, that Sunset Rubdown is no longer just Spencer Krug- he's joined by Jordan Robson-Cramer, Mike Doerkson and Camilla Wynn Ingr now. I'm pretty sure though that the new EP (which you can pre-order over at AK) that's released in January is more solo stuff from Spencer. More good news: the band's heading into the studio this month to record the follow-up to "Snake's Got A Leg", which apparently already has a release date of May 2, 2006. Yes.
Posted by Kevin at December 12, 2005 12:02 AM