Musical Art
the Notes and Scratches
make bittersweet pop songs mumbled haphazard from a fort made of blankets on a warm night in winter. Warm and friendly… just the thing for playing in the car on those winter nights riding home from the bar. — Steve McPherson, Pulse of the Twin Cities.
Radiant Darling
weave on a delicate loom threaded by half-heard stories, scratch jazz, ghost myth, americana and chamber pop. This evening is a celebration of the release of their Cryptomnesia, a remarkable and beautiful debut CD of lush and sexy and sad songs. Tender pop music featuring affecting narrataive passages that should be met with much acclaim — Empty Bottle
Casey Meehan
makes swamp music, alley tunes, delta songs that sometimes swing and often stumble. A soundtrack for a heartbroken and down-on-his-luck rogue slogging through the dingy city streets at 4am… a rollicking party gone out of bounds. — Tony Barnett, NewCity Chicago.
Ben Clarke
makes songs that flicker between vicious and sombre, plaintive and cruel, tired and exuberant. His ability to sing powerfully both with and without restraint [is] more reminiscent of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke than anyone else I can think of. — Fingertips.
Andy Wagner
makes heartbreak gravel songs. Wagner’s Horse Year is one of those albums that you can’t get out of your head. It takes this insistent hold upon your ear and then haunts you long after you’ve put on something else. — Fake Jazz