Monday, August 22, 2005

The Mmmmmmmm's



The M's - Break Our Bones

The M's - Eyes On The Prize

Picture if you would the scene...

It's 1968, Marc Bolan, The Kinks and Steve Marriott along with the rest of The Small Faces have just finished recording their latest collaborative album, and are celebrating their genius creation by having a nice cream scone and a lovely cup of earl grey with sugar lumps laced with acid in the cafe conveniently positioned next door to the studio...

Cut to 1992 where...

The Flaming Lips have just finished recording their magnificent "Hit To Death In The Future Head..." album, and are celebrating their genius creation by having a nice cream scone and a lovely cup of earl grey with sugar lumps laced with acid in the cafe conveniently positioned next door to the studio... when all of a sudden there's a rip in space and time and the Lips are transported back to 1968 outside the studio, where upon seeing the afore mentioned Bolan, Davies, Marriott and gang sneak past them while they're distracted making each other daisy chains, and into the studio they go to lay down some of their own brand of messed up licks on the master tapes...

Sadly the resulting album was never released at the time as there was a fire and everyone was too spaced out and loved up to do anything about it, so the master tapes were thought to have been lost....

Cut to the present day (well April 6th 2004 to be precise)...

The M's release their debut album cunningly titled The M's, a wonderful collection of songs richly influenced by Marc Bolan, The Small Faces, The Kinks, mid period Flaming Lips and a smattering of John Lennon....

Whatever their influences may be, the resulting album is an absolute cracker and I haven't been able to tear it out of my stereo since getting it last week. It's chocka full with tunes that combine swaggering riffs, lazy hazy melodies and pop sensibilities perfectly, the likes of which are very rarely heard nowadays... apart from possibly by the Supergrass boys.



The M's hail from Chicago and have been together since 2000 (via 1968 and 1992 obviously) and released an e.p. themselves before being picked up by Brilliante Records who re-released it with bonus tracks and then released what was going to be another couple of e.p's but instead compiling all three of them into this great album entitled The M's.

Directly ripped from Brilliant Records...

" The M's write the kind of songs that become the soundtrack to fun in all its different forms... Equally suited for listening while drinking gin on your porch on a hot summer night, blasting around town looking for that party in the woods that you heard about, or getting down and dirty with that special someone on your couch where the only good excuse to stop pawing each other is to turn the music up...Mmmmmmmm."

Indeed.


Buy - The M's - The M's from Brilliante Records
Visit - The M's
Visit - The M's @ My Space
Visit - Brilliante Records

Simon
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