I saw a review for the new Minus Story album, My Ion Truss, at Pitchfork this morning and immediately checked over at eMusic to see if it was available. I like those guys and had downloaded their other stuff through that service. Sure enough they had it. I guess I somehow overlooked it while checking through the daily batches of new releases last week because that’s when it was added to their catalog.
I also noticed something called A Minus Story Compendium with the triple listing of “new,” “eMusic Only,” and “Free Track.” Turns out it’s a nine track free sampler taken from the other available albums and EP. How cool! I already had all the songs after grabbing the new one but I think it’s a great idea as far as giving others a free introduction to the band is concerned. It’s a great little compilation too. I haven’t listened to My Ion Truss yet, but the other songs selected are the same ones I would have chosen using my new myopic selection standards. Included are my two favorite songs by them, “Little Wet Head” and “You Were On My Side.”
I’m not sure how to describe the band’s music. I see Flaming Lips mentioned a lot but I don’t think they sound like them at all. Still, their brand of mellow neo-psychedelic-indie-folk-pop-rock is in the same ballpark. If you’re intrigued but not an eMusic subscriber, there are a bunch of freebies available at both the Minus Story and Jagjaguwar sites.
Downloaded this yesterday, listened to it this morning, dug it a lot, good stuff. I did not think Flaming Lips when I heard them, but some of the allmusic.com similar artists did come up in my mind.
Oh cool! Glad you checked them out. I see a lot of E6-ers in that list on AMG. They do play a similar style of music.