Spottiswoode and His Enemies
© Copyright-Kumpelstiltskin Records
(791022165128)
Record Label: Kumpelstiltskin Records
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This cd is fresh off the shelf.
Produced by Teddy Kumpel, SPOTTISWOODE AND HIS ENEMIES is a rock and roll feast of horns, guitars and lyrical confusion.
A seventeen song epic from one of New York's cult bands.
Rock, pop, cabaret, bossa nova: this record has no restraint.
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Love it! Carries me away.
author: Michelle - sister to Lundo
Turned on to these guys about 6 years ago. Saw them live in NY last week. Have all their music. Spott just keeps getting better with age. Go out and buy all their music if you don't have it already.
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persona grata
author: groupiegirldc
In the lyrics to these songs Spottiswoode assumes many personas. Sometimes, in the arrangements, I even think that he must have sold his soul to be able to compose like he has assumed the identity of the instruments as well. He is a composer and a rock star, and plays live and records with a free-jazz-like rock band that is so skilled and tight you couldn't slip a thin dime between the notes. This music is like good expresso-dark, scaulding, strong, perfumed, exotic and will give you a desperate buzz.
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Saw them in NYC and was blown away!
author: Patricia Wright
Hey this band rocks! Saw them at Baby Jupiter in nyc and bought the CD that night. I loaned my copy out and am having a hard time getting it back! The band did alot of songs from this record, and alot of new ones too. I highly recommend this record!
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Prepare to be entranced by the new sound of music; Spottiswoode and his enemies
author: Janie Martinez
From what deliciously demented mind comes a ditty for inmate love such as Rattle the Bars ?
Weave you with a snarling horn , and seduce you with an accordion? YES you can sing and dance to this music and enjoy about the lyrics?!!?! ( When was the last time you did that without the help of hallucinogens?) Noneother than Spottiswoode and his enemies, whom I have had the pleasure to see live at Baby Jupiter, NYC.
I was absolutely blown away.This CD is such a new sound that you can only say that if you like the idea of Jim Morrisons' dangerous sexuality and circusy theatrics, enveloped with the cerebral joy of David Byrne , siphoned through Leonard Cohen's piano. That, my lovelies, is the surreal,genius, rock-alt-Waits sound of Spottiswoode and his Enemies., This band is HOT and the CD captures the act superbly. Its' not your boss's rock and roll.This is how the millenium sounds.
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