THE FOUNDRY FIELD RECORDINGS "Prompts/Miscues"

I hear so many different bands when I listen to Columbia, MO's Foundry Field Recordings. In fact, there are quite a few tracks that sound like dead ringers and descendants of Pavement's "Here" (not a bad thing). I hear Built To Spill, classic 70s soft rock (Alan Parsons), and Flaming Lips. But, if you are thinking, they are a noisy indie rock type, guess again. No, everything here is a little more subdued and melancholy, lo-fi, and no guitars flailing off the hook drenched in distortion. It's jangly, it's more soft than bulletin.

What seperates Foundry Field Recordings from sounding JUST LIKE all the aforementioned bands (and you will make your own conclusions too) are the vocals and the arrangements. Lots of little fun intros and outros, accent, not distract from the beauty of the songs. It's nearly Elephant 6, except that while Olivia Tremor Control were out there writing lyrics on green typewriters, FFR stick to a more traditional pop song, without all the cosmic imagery.

The record came out this past spring/summer, self-released possibly. I'm finding this is par for the course lately (see Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin and Kunek) where wonderful handmade recordings are getting enough spin from bloggers and fans that eventually they are winning over the people who don't have time to be "anglers" to catch something new. I wouldn't be surprised to hear they'd just signed to Sub Pop or Matador, they are really that good.

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