Album Notes

“Beatles White Album dragged through Austin, Texas, for a delicate rootsy taste here and there, not the country.” Land of Malls came about, in name and song concept, from the five-member band's refusal to produce an album that, musically, resembles the modern shopping mall. Said song-writer Walls-Kaufman, “A mall is laid out to suck in shoppers through the 'anchor stores', and the rest ride the coattails. On an album, the hit, the single, is the 'anchor store', and the rest of the album is, often, drek.” One critic called Land of Malls the “artist colony of Rock,” praising the bands extraordinary talent for “crafting perfect portraits of song . . . across the pallet of styles.” The Hill Rag proclaimed, “Stack this obscure little band's song-writing ability against anyone's . . . Suburban and Gomorrah's last track, Tell Me Where, is one of the best love songs ever written. Rocky Raccoon move over for Lesbian With the Bouffant Hair. If LOM had a top-flight producer, they'd be the modern equivalent of the Brill Building. . . . Unstoppable.”