MP3 Lipstik - Everything Is Good
American rock and roll with hints of post-modern alternative production flourishes.
10 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Modern Rock, ROCK: Americana
Details:
… is a New York based collective featuring the songwriting of Sam Jacobs, the performances and production of Sam Mason, and current and former members of a variety of local bands including The Vanity Fair, Wormburner, Utris, and Acquiesce
… is the first time businessman Sam Jacobs and artist Sam Mason have collaborated on a creative project or a set of completed songs
… has recently completed their debut album, Everything Is Good, a loosely conceptual album about a strung-out runaway in need of salvation
… uses an interesting and surprising cover of The Eagles ‘Lyin’ Eyes’ as the closer of the first side
… sounds like American rock music, as interpreted by our friends across the pond, with various and sundry influences including Tom Petty, Wilco, Bruce Springsteen, the Stones, Super Furry Animals, Doves, Iggy Pop, Radiohead, The Jayhawks and others
… is alternately wildly ambitious and distractingly self-aware
… thinks it has written one of the all time great break-up songs in Track 4, ‘The Fuck Off’ despite the fact that it can’t/won’t ever see radio play
… is interested in licensing songs on the album to film, television, commercials, websites, or video games
… can see using a song as the closing credits on a major new Hollywood production or a scene in a new reality TV show where the couple kisses for the first time
… would be incredibly grateful if you had the time to listen to the 43 minutes that comprise the album
… thinks you will be pleasantly surprised