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Beautiful melancholic folk-pop with smart lyrics and lush 60s arrangements
Genre:
Pop: California Pop
Release Date:
2001
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Good for a Gander
© Copyright-Jeff Mellin
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Record Label: Stereorrific Recordings
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Sublime folk-pop from the producers of Miss Mary's "Hey Blue!"
Good for a Gander, Mellin's follow-up to his "tour de force"* Jeff Mellin Saves the World, is a record you'll lose yourself in. Lush arrangements. California cum Liverpool harmonies. A record of sad songs that will make you happy. Not that it's morose by any means-it flows over with Mellin's melodicism, lyric wit, and pop sensibility. But throughout there's a comforting melancholy, like a blanket pricked with pinhole stars pulled up over an incandescent moon.
Musicians on Good for a Gander include the Midnight Cowboys, namely Dimitri Fane (Slide, Jess Klein) and Ken Schopf (Slide, Dennis Brennan), Joel Mellin (Oscillators), NY City folk-singer Kristin Mueller, and cult producer/musician Pete Weiss.
Produced by Joel Mellin (Miss Mary, Oscillators) with Jeff Mellin
*the Noise, Boston
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upbeat depression
author: Tim Sullivan, Urban Tulsa Weekly
sparse arrangements, gentle, rolling melodies, and lyrics of love, loss, and loneliness, in an eight track compilations I can best describe as 'upbeat depression.' Melin sounds like early Paul Simon (as in when he was w/Garfunkle-Simon) or Nick drake, particularly on acoustic tracks like 'Lake Erie.' 'Oh, Possum' and 'Blue Corduroy,' with thier reverberating harmoines and jangly guitars, sound like the Beatles covering '60s california pop.
However, even the upbeat tunes have a melancholy sense about them; Mellin's songs are the songs you would like to hear when you are feeling depressed about being happy, or vice versa.
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worthy of greater attention
author: Eric Sorensen
Add Jeff Mellin's name to the growing list of folk-pop artists worthy of greater attention.
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good listenin' music
author: Doug Treadway, Nightflying
...of another era, a time when people weren't so worried, so consumed, so driven. It's just good listenin' music, the kind of thing you can put on while you feed the little animals or your soul, whichever comes first. I think maybe we need more of that along about now.
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rollicking and laid-back
author: Jesse Ashlock, Epitonic.com
By turns rollicking and laid-back, Good for a Gander features a hint of Merseybeat, a taste of California sunshine pop, a dash of Americana, and a whole lot of Jeff Mellin.
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