Burning Tape at the Mystery Dinner
© Copyright-The Lovely Public
(094922636560)
Record Label: Wall of Noise
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"LOVELESS-NESS hung from helicopters, like a drab, over San Francisco."
Until… that Shattering Day, when he, vocalist Jason Kick, located a certain member, drummer Joe Miller, living in a certain Chicago region, and together trekked west.
They listened to Os Mutantes till St. Louis. Roxy Music till Denver. The Velvet Underground during an undocumented 18-hour episode which somehow involved wheelchair gymnasts and the Special Olympics – sending them in reverse to St. Louis. Then Syd Barrett back again to Denver. Steve Reich till the Salt Lake flats. Deerhoof till Reno. And finally to their new San Francisco home via the Raincoats.
Where... they soon located Nacera singing and playing her bass. And Chris twiddling analog synthesizer nobs.
Loveless-ness faded; the helicopters flew east. And the Lovely Public filled some remaining empty spaces... with a sound described as “trippy yet very surefooted” (Aquarius Records, San Francisco).
Numerous local live shows and a tour quickly followed. Notable performances: opening for the Comets on Fire in Chicago, Birdmonster in Detroit, and Black Fiction at San Francisco’s Hemlock Tavern.
Their debut CD, Burning Tape at the Mystery Dinner, is available now.
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Infectiously Hypnotic
author: San Francisco Bay Guardian
Who doesn't like kisses? Chocolate ones, French ones, innocent ones - they're all delicious. Especially tempting is "Delicious Surprise Kisses," an infectiously hypnotic song by San Francisco's the Lovely Public. The track displays the group's impressive songwriting skills, which combine a finely tuned ear for interesting melodies with a knack for angular phrasing that makes sense and yet remains unpredictable. (Eliana Fiore)
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Lovely Indeed
author: The Deli Magazine SF
"Burning Tape At the Mystery Dinner", the debut cd from the Lovely Public, fuses together musical interludes, defying basic song structure, while still building an album of perfect flow and clarity.
Driving tempos start and are abruptly mutated and lost as a song moves into its next section, which then flows directly into the next song, basically making the track list unneccessary. "Burning Tape" is the work of a band that was obviously trying to make a great ALBUM, and, as far as we're concerned, they've succeeded.
Forming as a "rocknroll circus in northern Indiana" in 2002, the core members of The Lovely Public, Jason Kick and Joe Miller, relocated to the Bay Area and began recording together again in 2005 with new surrounding members.
The band's myspace page cites such as influences as Sonic Youth, Deerhoof and "Syd Barrett and his Pink Floyd", which are definitely good reference points, though the Olivia Tremor Control's "Dusk At Cubist Castle" is the closest thing we can recall to "Burning Tape's" wonderfully manic geography.
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A Heady Air of Somber Intrigue
author: Aquarius Records, San Francisco
Very strange and cool. The debut album from this SF group brings with it a heady air of somber intrigue. The Lovely Public draws together many styles as they roam through different dramatic scenes, slinking in and out of the shadows -- like an ensemble of olden time court entertainers descending into an electrified pagan ritual.
Burning Tape At The Mystery Dinner has elements of jazz, post-rock, avant-folk, pop, krautrock, psych and much more. Whew, can you keep up with them? At once, very trippy yet very surefooted. Fans of Oneida and the latest Liars album will probably find much to dig here. Recommended.
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