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Ed's Song (Richard Buckner Cover)

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Released: Oct 24, 2010

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Ed's Song (Richard Buckner Cover)
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Gills (dry) (From the new album!)
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Acts (From the new album!)
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All I Want (From the new album!)
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Mild Peril II (live&large)
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General Info

Genre: Melodramatic Popular Song
Location Brooklyn, Un
Profile Views: 15977
Last Login: 2/6/2012
Member Since 10/10/2007
Website basicsatan.com - you can buy the album there
Record Label Basic Satan
Type of Label Indie
Bio
Looping melodies, room sound, a little extra reverb, quiet/quiet/loud, etc. Mostly, songs about my brother and about returning to water. .... About Mild Peril: "The Spend's music is largely acoustic, introspective and intimate, wistfully exploring common themes like lost love, dysfunctional families, growing old and death. While the songs are beautifully rendered, reverb-drenched atmospherics and the occasional rumblings of a distant electric guitar give the mix a darker, otherworldly feel." - NPR All Songs Considered Second Stage .... "On his debut as The Spend, Mild Peril, Shaw control's the music, runs the label, and even does the cover art…The resulting full-length album is a beautifully complex document of Shaw's journey to independence and the understanding of who he is as a musician." – The Deli Chicago .... "Solo performers aren't anything new. But solo performers who can make you forget that they're performing, well, alone, is a whole 'nother thing. Matt Shaw, the fellow behind The Spend, is one such local musician, whose largely acoustic songs are somehow at once spare and lush, and just varied enough to keep things interesting." – Gapers Block .... "Somehow this album takes on the quality of a motion picture as it plays out. The melodies have the ability to carry you off into picturesque landscapes all of their own. The album is truly an experience when given your full attention…it leaves you with the feeling you have spent the night laying on your back looking up at the stars." Rating: Five Stars – Peoria Art Examiner .... "The vocals aren't effortless or strained, but earnest and honest. Each song reminds me of something else that I'd forgotten. The album doesn't settle on anything overly familiar, which is how, strangely, it really sounds like Home…I'm convinced by The Spend's ability to transport my imagination from winter's grip to a remembered Midwest and fishing with earthworms or the sky blue sky of summer afternoons." Rating: 9/10 – HEAVE Media .... "Shaw records on his own, and the songs on his recent record Mild Peril mostly fall in the hushed, reflective, somewhat ominous lo-fi folk genre that you sometimes hear from artists like Mark Kozelek or Damien Jurado…But he mixes these quieter songs with some occasional (and unexpected) electric guitar feedback and experimental sound collages (such as the haunting "Gills (wet)") to create a diverse listening experience that manages to maintain a specific mood throughout." – Pop Headwound .. .. ..
Members
Matt Shaw, email: m@basicsatan.com
Influences
Buckner, Elvrum, Kozelek, Van Zandt, Phantom Surfers.
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.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ......The Spend - 8.08.10.. from ..Coach House Sounds.. on ..Vimeo.....