Like folk songs about vegetables, desserts and animal fables? Varied instrumentation like accordions, banjos and fiddles, tubas and trumpets? Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum's scratchy warble? Then you'll love Philadelphia's mewithoutYou's new album, it's all crazy! it's all false! it's all a dream! it's alright just released on Tooth and Nail Records. I am crazy for this album, easily one of the best under-the-radar albums of the year so far.
NPR has just posted their list of their listeners' best music so far, and I'm clearly whistling to another dixie as any listener of The New Spin might attest to. Yes, a lot of the artists on the list are great, there's no question, but it's clear that the stars of the indie world are launching further into the limelight of what we call mainstream, and the indie label/sound starts to get obfuscated in a quagmire of pleasing-to-the-ear melody and harmony that speaks so loudly to a common denominator that I have to dig even deeper to root for the "best music you've never heard," which is the mission I have set for myself for The New Spin.
This album is so great, you'll just have to see this video to get a sense of what it has in store for you. For fans of the "ballads" of Neutral Milk Hotel, Okkervil River, The Mountain Goats, and The Decemberists.
Listen to another track from this album tonight on The New Spin, tonight at 9-11 PM, 7:30 Eastern, 4:30 Pacific. Streams tonight online here.
And now a few unique details about the album...
Aaron Weiss's lyrics are somewhat inspired by the Sufi mystic, Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
Their tour van often runs on vegetable oil.
The Weiss brothers are currently doing a little tour in August, but it's not a mewithoutYou tour. Important to know. It's called The Weiss Family Tour. They're actually playing at The Cat's Cradle in Chapel Hill, my stomping grounds at one point when going to UNC-CH.
They made Paste Magazine's Band of the Week. Just the week?
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