Album Notes

meyerman who do you think you are?

Top 10 Albums of 2011 Absolute Powerpop.com
Top 10 Albums of 2011 Michael Barron, Pop Geek Heaven
Top 40 New Releases 2011 Jack Rabid, Big Takeover Magazine
Top 15 Albums of 2011 John Borack, Goldmine Magazine
Top 4 of 10 Albums of 2011 Rich Rossi via Power Pop Overdose blog
Top 6 of 15 by Pure Pop Pub blog
Top 7 of 30 Pearl Before Swine Blog
Top 7 best in powerpop, Best albums 2011, Now This Rocks! Blog
Top 7 of 20 by Radcliffe, "permission" #2 song of the year. Obner.org
Top 29 of 100 best albums, David Bash, International Pop Overthrow
Top 20 Albums of 2011 Jeff Shelton KSCU, 103.3 FM
Top 25 Albums of 2011 Pop Fair.com
Top 25 Albums of 2011 Slack-a-gogo blog
#17 of 41 top songs of 2011 "xrayspex" Shockpop radio

theo meyer: guitars and vocals
jeff preischel: bass, vocals
mike eckhart: lead guitar, vocals
rob barden: drums

The debut album, who do you think you are? is available September, 2011, on the band’s own Pretty Decent Records label. Basic tracks were recorded at House of Vibes studio in Highland Park, NJ, with additional recording done over a two year period in members’ basement home studios. The album was mixed and engineered by studio-wizard Kurt Reil, drummer for the critically-acclaimed Grip Weeds. Reil's extensive knob-twiddling credits include his own band as well legendary NJ pop masters, the Smithereens.

who do you think you are? is not about aloof, indie subtlety. Instead, meyerman’s strengths lie in vintage power chords and simple pop melodies. Songwriter theo meyer comfortably mixes lyrical moments of self-aware humor with cutting reflections on lives led in modern suburbia. A thread of British Invasion influence weaves in and out of the tracks, giving the album a quality that is joyfully out of step. who do you think you are? skips from clever tongue-in-cheek rawkers like "permission to rock you" and "metalface", to the social commentary of "immaculate mansions", to earnest pop tunes like "get to you" and "indecision & inertia". Throughout, meyer’s sneering, nasal delivery lends an independent charm all its own. The result is an album that loudly bangs on the door, demanding admission to the Pantheon of power pop.

David Bash, founder of the International Pop Overthrow festival calls meyerman “A great power-pop band...awesome songwriting, great melodies... everything you could ever want in a band."

copyright 2011, T. Meyer
All Songs by T. Meyer except "loving leash", Meyer/Eckhart and "Bitter End", M. Eckhart
Mixed by Kurt Reil at House of Vibes
Mastered by Doug Van Sloun, Focus Mastering
*LUKOB Publishing
*Blue Skies on Mars Music