Mr. Todd Wesley Emmert...and also the Inspector 22 Band includes: Mike Glass, Chris Girard, and Ryan Richardson.
Influences
Lou Reed, the Sun City Girls, SST basslines.
Sounds Like
"When it comes to harmonious music, it's not clear whether Todd Wesley Emmert understands it at all...Emmert either dabbles in beekeeping or relishes the sound of plastic kid kazoos...there's just no point in something this abrasive. It hurts without much of a point, making it not just painful, but pretty useless."-Elizabeth Byrum."...a great blend of stark loner-folk disturbance and wigged out, assemblage oriented cheese."-Byron Coley."Inspector 22 uses lots of religious imagery, and one gets the sense he might have a peculiar kind of knowledge about the mystery of these other worlds, but the music is delightfully raw and earthy in a way that keeps it humble. There's a little piano that actually gives the edges a little more dementia, and a barely tuned ukelele that could scare the children. It's folk music marred by pop. It's alone, but not lonely; far away, but not secreted away; sad, but not desolate; cracked, but not crazy; feverish, but not delirious; a little baked, but not druggy; visionary, but not outsider."-Peter Bebergal.
Inspector 22 started as the solo-project of Todd Emmert in 1997, initially recording cassettes to trade with friend Clarque Blomquist and an acquaintance named Grux. There were probably 15 or 20 cassette releases made in editions of two or three, of which two notable CDs were compiled: "Friendship Cemetery Revisited...", a twenty song "best of" and "Worship The Shoe", an avant-garde a cappella album. In 2002 a seven inch, "Rainy Day Saints", was pressed in an edition of 200 and self-released. In 2003 the eight song EP, "Disco Mystic", was recorded, but never officially released. In 2008 the concept album "Irni" was released, which marked the first Inspector 22 album for an actual functioning label. 2008 also saw the formation of "The Inspector 22 Band", which includes Mike Glass of Fin Fang Foom on drums, former Spider Bagger Chris Girard on guitar, Ryan Richardson of the Kingsbury Manx on bass and Todd on guitar and vocals. Odessa Records will release a full length album by the band in the Spring of 2010 entitled "Drop Dead." The 2009 albums "Hey Man, I Understand." and "The Waiting Grave" and the 2008 album "Irni" are all available now for your listening pleasure, or pain, at CD Alley in Chapel Hill and from these and other distributors:
"http://www.odessarecords.com",
"Http://www.tomentosarecords.com/dontrustheruin.html",
"http://www.northeastindie.com/store.htmins",
"http://www.time-lagrecords.com/distro"...
problem with having 4 adults and three kids in one house is I just now got your package this morning...thank goodness its intact - and when I get back home I'm a listenin to it - you are lovely and loved truly~
I got the new CD and it sounds really amazing, especially driving up and down these rural roads. The Samhain cover is magnificent, so many little instrumental ditties make me wish I was still your neighbor so I could wake up to hear practicing piano from across the road!
your sounds are amazing...like an unknown lover...like hearing the taste of a mouthful of timber and nails......you exist and we are lucky for that my unknown friend....
you journey lovin' fool....portland maine loves you...drove to old orchard beach the other daydayday and listened to "she sells seashells" and "irni" part 1 longing for some T.W.E in the Real!
