I made another trip back to Tower today to rummage through the .49 cent bins. Two winners I picked up were
Owsley's '99 s/t release, which kinda reminds me of a mellower Candyskins mixed with Ben Folds.
Quote:
Another of Owsley's old bands contained Ben Folds, and their like-mindedness is hard to miss; this album's "Zavelow House" and "Sonny Boy" are practically Ben homages. While both craft pop hooks which make similarly instant impressions, Owsley toughens them up with meatier singing and crunching guitars, avoiding the occasional maudlin sensibilities of Folds' stuff — the "wimp factor" is wisely absent here.
Another score is an amazing compilation put out by
Six Degrees Records, called
Torch, a collection of modern torch songs. Some of the songs are very electronic, which surprised me, but the real capper is a tune at the end of the disc by Roy Nathanson, feat. Elvis Costello, which made me get out from in front of the computer to the couch and bask in the audio sweetness of
Fire Suite 1. Wow. I haven't gotten chills in a while, but this did it. Other artists on the disc include: Cassandra Wilson, Sylk, Snooze, Mandalay, Shrift, dZihan & Kamien and Xploding Plastix. Who? That's what I thought, but it's
very nice. Perfect makeout music. 8)
Samples from Torch are
here, on the left of the screen.
Thanks again, Tower.
eter, aka 
usty 
halk