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Here's a review:
"Jon Ehrens is a serial band inventor in the Robert Pollard mode. Just as the Guided By Voices frontman frequently comes up with aliases to release music under, sometimes fashioning unique musical identities and even elaborate fictional backstories, Ehrens constantly records under names like the Hypnic Jerks, Factoid of the Dustbowl, and Spittn’ Images, often just for one album or a few songs, before moving onto the next idea. One of his many solo recording projects, The Art Department, even became a live trio that gigs steadily around Baltimore.
With all the different voices and aesthetics he tries on throughout his different projects, it’s tempting to wonder what the ‘real’ Jon Ehrens sound is. And if there is one, it’s a safe guess to start with Repelican, the name he’s recorded under on and off for 10 years. It quickly becomes clear with one listen to Repelican’s new album, Don’t Mumble The Manifesto, however, that he’s still behind a bit of a sonic mask, whether it’s a dense fog of tape hiss, or an affected singing style that sometimes sounds like a caricature of Bruce Springsteen in rockabilly mode. That’s not to say that he’s hiding his true self, or that it’s all an elaborate put-on; if anything, it’s a confirmation that the lo-fi production and twangy melodies common to so much of Ehrens’s records are simply part of his musical DNA. And where a record by, say, the Art Department might be almost stubbornly dedicated to a specific style from song to song, Repelican benefits highly from a wider swath of tempos and moods.
The album ends with “Diana,” one of the few tracks that gets past 3 minutes, and easily its most fully formed pop tune, featuring the same hiccupy rockabilly vocal style as much of the rest of the album. But other wise, Don’t Mumble’s brisk half hour running time is full of distorted classic rock miniatures like “Ripened Horse” that would make Bob Pollard himself proud." - AL SHIPLEY
DISCOGRAPHY:
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--2003 - "Mobile Lounge Presents: Repelican"--
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1. Corner Merchant
2. Figure It Out
3. The Past
4. Baby Reaction
5. Outside It's
6. Dismissed
7. Details
8. Show Them Your Backswing
9. Bedtime
10. Doe A Demon
11. The Heavy-Headed Graduate
12. Fall Into
13. From the Desk Of God --
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--2004 - "Anyone? Anyone?"--
1. Badmood Baboon
2. Used to Me
3. Boogaloo Baby
4. I Can't Help Myself
5. I've Been Waiting
6. Lazy Song
7. A Handheld Gun
8. Speaking of Forgetting
9. Besides In Suicide
10. Can You Specify
11. The Sling
12. Party
13. Not Worth Knowing
14. Witness Protection--
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--2006 - "There Have Been Visitors"
1. Insect Speak
2. America's Next Top Model
3. Don't Patronize Me
4. Soundproof The Tomb
5. Confusing Adhesives
6. Objects in their Current State
7. I Never Won
8. Robotic In Motion
9. Plea
10. It Takes A Labcoat--
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--2006 - "The Weather In Repelican Run"--
1. Runaway Out
2. I'll Not
3. This Conversation
4. Me
5. Kill Devil Hills
6. So Tired Of Being Alone (Al Green)
7. Friday Evening
8. Instrumental 1
9. Little Bag
10. Futureflux MyLittlePussy--
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--2006 - "I Can't Go Nowhere"
1. Intent To Mislead
2. Pick An Argument
3. Established Flatlines
4. I Feel Like A Buffalo
5. Better Days
6. Shallow Fabulous
7. Vold Brocke
8. No I Just Roam
9. My Coronal Suture
10. Do Not Open 'Til XMAS--
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--2007 - "The Soundproof EP"--
1. Better Days
2. Soundproof The Tomb
3. Intent To Mislead
4. Motherfucking Taresa
5. Don't Go Into the Mountain--
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2008 - "21st Century Disasters: A Repelispective" --
1. Better Days
2. Doe A Demon
3. A Handheld Gun
4. Painwo
5. Used to Me
6. Confusing Adhesives
7. Outside It's
8. The Escapees Have Escaped
9. Insect Speak
10. Figure It Out
11. Shallow Fabulous
12. Not Worth Knowing
13. Cynthia
14. The Heavy-Headed Graduate
15. This Conversation
16. Badmood Baboon--
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--2009? - "Don't Mumble the Manifesto"--
1. Out Of Sorts
2. The Toilet
3. The Escapees Have Escaped
4. Learn to Drive
5. Doomsday
6. The Week
7. Cynthia
8. The Furniture of My Future
9. Painwo
10. Ask For You
11. Ripened Horse
12. Raga in B-Movies
13. Diana
