Please recommend where I should start. I saw them last night and while a couple of their songs were familiar to me, I can't say that I'm very familiar with them.

Love them.

I can't recommend The Singing Hatchet highly enough. I've enjoyed all of their albums though.

The Singing Hatchet, eh? It's going on my list. They thoroughly impressed me last night and now need to know more.

Thank you, Patrick!

RIYL Tanny?

Oooh...lemme see. Lo-fi pop, in the lines of Low, kinda Death Cab-ish but not. Lead singer sings in a falsetto voice while the other guitarist throws out mad licks.

I would agree that this is their best.

And the Surrounding Mountains is also a decent record as is their s/t (although some people seem to really dislike that one). I haven't been able to get into the new one at all, unfortunately.

I love And The Surrounding Mountains, and I like Fallen Leave Pages pretty well, but as I said in a thread earlier this year, most of the new one sounds like an extended, desert-baked take on "Us & Them." But, unfortunately, it's "Us & Them" over and over and over again. I like them a lot, but they're in a mood rut.

saw them open for Built To Spill and really liked them, didn't know they had that many releases.

bort

i like the first one the best . . . then singing hatchet. the first, s/t one, is a bit more haunting and sparsly arranged. they have a ep too that's more like the first album. i got into to them pretty much by luck when the first album came out and i'll occasionally see jim putnam's name in some pretty strange places--like on the last matmos album, civil war

I tell ya, it was a bit daunting to walk up to the merch table and see a huge variety of albums. What to buy, what to buy?!? Like Bort, I didn't know they had so many albums out.

I've only heard one song from these folks -- it was included a mix cd someone gave me. It is a stand-out track on the mix cd to be sure -- brilliant really. Sometimes one song will win me over -- I was out cd shopping Friday and had a list and dammit, shoulda put Radar Bros on there too.

Great you got to see them. Ugh, we never get good shows here.

That's how I always feel going into a record store. So many albums....where do I start.

do you live in Richmond? I know you live in Virginia but I wasn't sure where.

I'm about 45 mins. south of Richmond. I lived there for 5 years when I attended the School of the Tarts, I mean Arts, heh.