Recommended Pop: Quirky music (#1 - #40)
CARO: Back It Up
Back to the old days. Fun pop tracks, mixing jazz, hiphop, beats and quirky melodies to an infectious cocktail. Don't listen if you hate dancing. This song is just irresistible.
MP3 price: $2.00
MOLLY MARLETTE: The Allumette - EP
A true lyricist, miles beyond the trite, predictable rhymes of the average singer/songwriter. Instead of forcing her lyrics upon us, her delicate delivery quietly calls the listener to lean in closer.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
BALL OF FLAME SHOOT FIRE: Grumpy Little Bird
Quirky pop rock
Recommended if you like Animal Collective, Harry Nilsson.MP3 price: $5.00
BEN MCGARVEY: Too Busy Framing
Recorded in his parents’ basement using an old piano, a laptop and various other gadgets, this emotive debut album is layered with sweeping vocals, scratchy violins, found-sounds and dark, electronic undertones.
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
PERHAPST: Perhapst
The debut "solo" album from The Decemberists' drummer (and former Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Elliott Smith drummer) John Moen. Quirky, catchy, hook-laden indie-pop with a smirk and a smile.
Recommended if you like Elliott Smith, The Decemberists.CD price: $14.00
OH DARLING: EP
Two girls. Two guys. One great band. Where the sweet meets the gritty, the hopeless meets the heartened.
CD price: $8.00
AUDREY RYAN: Dishes & Pills
Quirky singer-songwriter indie-rock with elements of folk/country but with an overall unique and experimental approach to capturing songs, lots of layers, strong lyrics, and strong hooks.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ASYLUM STREET SPANKERS: Mercurial
Covers from 1898 to 1982, recorded live to two-track tape. No overdubs, no tricks, just real music played by one of the best line-ups in Spankers’ history.
CD price: $13.49
LES CHAUDS LAPINS: Parlez-moi d'amour
French songs about love and sex from the jazz era, artfully sung and rearranged by this acoustic band from New York.
CD price: $13.95
HYPNOTUBA: Loosed
Fun, happy, mostly instrumental Casio pop for people of all ages (yes, all of them.)
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
GINA STOCKTON: All That I Can Bring
Fans of organic and vibey music along the lines of Sarah McLachlan should find much to their liking, with lots of captivating melodies and lyrics.
Recommended if you like Sara Groves, Rita Springer.CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $14.99
GREGORY PAGE: Happiness Is Being Lonely
Beautiful and aching, the sound of remorse tempered by dark humor. This CD is a gorgeous example of the seemingly lost art of finding beauty in disappointment and sorrow. It's lonesome music that is the sonic equivalent of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road."
Recommended if you like John Lennon, Dolly Parton.MP3 price: $15.00
BAD DREAM GOOD BREAKFAST: Nothing Broken Nothing Damaged
orchestral indie rock
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE MASTER CHAYNJIS: Only Death Can Save Us
Debut release by the Bristol (UK) based trio, who play b-movie soul with a gypsy heart - friction abounds, propelling the foreboding swing and swagger of the double bass, guitar and violin into uncharted territory.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE SORT OFS: Anxiety on Parade
agitprop-prog-POPulism for the Individual
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
MANCINO: Manners Matter
From the depths of the Gowanus Canal, Mancino mashes elements of 60's pop, psyche, circus squawks, and solid rock music into a potent stew that possesses the shy wallflower to boogie and the dancing queen to strap on a pair of headphones and geek out.
MP3 price: $11.00
ROB LYNCH: Gift Songs from a Lovely, Puzzling Sea
poetic drummer, audio troublemaker and creative jackass. melodic night thoughts as curious as loss itself.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
VARIOUS: Silly Songs on Seventy-Eights
Ready for a taste of old style humor in song? A collection of recordings from 1917 to 1953 showcasing the evolution of styles in recording, humor, and songwriting. CD comes with a research booklet describing the artists and their work.
CD price: $12.99
ARGO: Attack of The Firebots
"The phrase "Seattle sound" might have to be reworked a little with the emergence of some of the latest emotional, dream rock coming out of the Pacific Northwest. Bands like Fair, The Turn-ons and Argo are trashing the previous definition.
CD price: $9.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
LITTLE SUE: The Long Goodbye
Country folk that accompanies your sitting on a roof at night listening to the stars. And also, you're drunk.
MP3 price: $15.00
MICHAEL KITSON: Nobody Told Me
With solid hooks, quiet voice, and great playing this Portland Oregon based singer/songwriter gently eases the senses with 10 songs for everyone. This album is filled with simple words and melodies that will leave you humming.
CD price: $9.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
BEATS FOR BEGINNERS: Lazer Beams For Eyes EP
Pulsating slacker analog electro rock, six tracks with an organic stones vibe.
CD price: $9.99
MR FANTASTICAL: Ham Hocks and Guitar Strings
MR FANTASTICAL the great wonder. The king of circus-core. The man to stand amongst men. In this time of turmoil, there is no better moment to ease your ears with the catchiest sound waves an ear (or two) can survive.
THE HAZZARDS: Secrets
Hilarious, boozy, girly indie-pop from Brooklyn, NY
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE VISION OF A DYING WORLD: Skelephone Call from the Eastern Side
Post-country apocalypse pop somewhere in between the Partridge Family and the Manson Family.
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
DENNIS DRISCOLL: My Grave is Kept Clean
This album is electronic pop music which is much influenced by the '60s British Invasion sound.
MP3 price: $12.97
TOM GAVIN: Into the Weeds
A cluster of expansive, evocative songs sculpted with coarse, dusky textures and dream-logic imagery.
CD price: $11.97 / MP3 price: $11.97
DAWN LANDES: Two Three Four EP
A nostalgic mix of junk-shop pop, old time folk, glistening glockenspiels and fuzzy, retroelectronica.
MP3 price: $15.00
THE NOEL PRIOR BAND: Hazards
Think of a 'pop-tastic' blend of acoustic guitars, lazy piano, banjos, melodicas and vocal harmonies.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
NATHAN WILEY: The City Destroyed Me
Singer-songwriter from Summerside, PEI performing an amalgam of rock & pop & folk & blues & surf music. Sounds better than that description.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
MR. FORKY: Mr. Forky
Soulful, bluesy, dark, weird melodies and beautiful musicianship.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE TRIMMED HEDGES: The Seas Elected
An always moving underwater sea circus.
Recommended if you like Pink Floyd, They Might Be Giants.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
DUDLEY: Are Our Oars Out?
Richard Singer, writing in Option, opined that the sound is "…somewhat playful, folk-tinged, soft-side-of-alternative rock… a welcome break from the self-seriousness exhibited by other female singer/songwriters… intriguing, nightmarish side that peeks out
CD price: $15.97 / MP3 price: $15.97
DUDLEY: Doin' Jack
"Jazzy acoustic finger picking and a little brushed snare back up Ellen Turner's hazy, hushed vocals through light, breezy songs, best described with adjectives like plush, nice, deluxe, yummy and delightful." --from www.listen.com blurb
CD price: $15.97 / MP3 price: $15.97
FIVE LEADING U.S. JUG BANDS: Jug Band Music? You CAN'T Be Serious!
Jug band music mixes traditional string instruments and harps with jugs, washboards, kazoos, washtub base and other homemade instruments to create a delightful toe-tapping novelty sound for blues, jazz and other popular genre.
CD price: $19.95
CHRIS BRADY: Satellites
A fresh sounding classic rock album with a mix of 60's and 70's styles ie The Beatles, The Doors, Neil Young, and Phil Spector inspired Wall of Sound production.
CD price: $12.97
