How was your Christmas? Get any unusual gifts this year? I got a Power Pop Juicer! I wasn’t sure what to think of it at first, but when I got home and used it, the results were quite enjoyable. I tossed in some Beatles, a handful of Cheap Trick, a dash of David Bowie, a pinch of Teenage Fanclub, two parts Matthew Sweet, a tablespoon of The Posies, a 1/2 cup of Jellyfish…and am now enjoying a healthy serving of what we’ll call Sideshow Freak, the new opus from Steven Wright-Mark.
Isn’t that it really boils down to? Ingesting enough of the right influences and regurgitating what might remind one of what initially went down. Steven Wright-Mark has it down to what seems like a science. His music is like throwing a handful of my favorite CDs against the wall, taking the largest bits that remain and constructing something beautiful from the aftermath. This is the second album he’s sent me and I’m impatiently already awaiting the third.
Here are the album’s first two tracks:
MP3: Steven Wright-Mark - “Sideshow Freak”
MP3: Steven Wright-Mark - “Change”
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