Review, The Heligoats: Goodness Gracious "Chris Otepka is Jeff Mangum's Long Lost Cousin"

Came across this little gem amongst the piles of CDs I mull through each week, and this is getting the most spin on The New Spin right now. I am a huge fan of Neutral Milk Hotel and Chris Opteka's The Heligoats sounds like Jeff Mangum's long-lost cousin. I don't know much about Chris Otepka other than that he hails from the greater Chicago area, but both his voice and songwriting style seem to mimic the "rambling" linearity that Mangum became so famous for, and since Mangum seems to be mostly out of the picture in terms of recording new albums (read Kim Cooper's great book about why) thank god we have The Heligoats' Goodness Gracious to carry on the Mangum torch.

He has a few EPs before this release, Seeds and The End of All-Purpose, the former which comes with a packet of seeds, apparently. But if he has been lurking in the dark somewhere before, Goodness Gracious should shoot him straight into the light.

Listen to Fish Sticks on the Greyday Records website, a New Spin favorite.

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New Spin Track of the Week is Chad VanGaalen's "Molten Light".  You can read my review of his new album, Soft Airplane, in Current Magazine, Oct. 17 edition.  Also, you can read this interview to learn more.  

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This week on The New Spin

Tonight we'll have new music from Rosebuds, Deerhoof, Pidgeon,Tobacco, Cold War Kids, Notwist, Cuff the Duke, Share, and Stolen Minks.

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The New Spin now features a track of the week.  This week is "Taking the Farm" from War on Drugs, post folk rock for the new generation. 

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The New Spin with AE Bridger Podcast

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what's that band in the background you hear in my promo? wovenhand's new album, ten stones. what's that? oh yeah, it does sound a bit like nick cave. and that's a good thing!