Soda & his Million Piece Band

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"The Big, Strange Sound." --LA Weekly

tracks

: 1 You Cheat
: 2 July
: 3 Mystery Song
: 4 Liza Jane
: 5 Lakeshore (Letter for Early)
: 6 Christine
: 7 Dirty Old Town
: 8 Moonlight Drive
: 9 Sinnerman
: 10 Cabbagetown Breakdown - W.D.Y.L.

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notes

"Featured currently on our jukebox, the Soda band (for short) are an ingenious creation who assimilate the American music lexicon and bend it into new and wonderful shapes. Their nearest competition would be The Pogues, although they sound nothing alike. The Pogues famously took old Irish drinking songs, traditional ballads, and the mystique of the Emerald Isle and shot it through the veins of punk rock. Soda & Co. are doing the same for Americana. Soda's gruff and mysterious voice recalls the haunted Tom Waits, and his tales of lying women and sinners and early death bring to mind the warped world of Nick Cave. On the catchy ditty "July" you can hear the multi-limbed band cranking through accordions, guitars, traps, bass, mandolin, and more instruments I can't identify. When they play a "small" version of the band live, there are 8 members. The full band has 16. They are moved by the pure love of folk, blues, and punk like Frankenstein's monster was moved by a jolt of lightning.

Soda used to light up the frets in the kinetic pop punk band Wax, and among the many other members are more than a few seasoned hardcore punks. Theirs is the twilight world of dirt roads and mysterious groves of trees and the open prairie full of strangers on the outskirts of town. It's dusty and greasy, tender and cold-hearted all at once. "Lakeshore" is a sad-eyed waltz, a goodbye letter from a man who just can't be bothered to try anymore. "Christine" features some plucked and reverbed guitar and shuffling rhythms and some crazy blowing on a mic'd harmonica. These 10 tracks are all vignettes of American gothic, stories of the cold landscape of the great empty spaces, played by a fantastically crowded band. On slower numbers, like "Sinnerman" the multitude of musicians create their own thread in the tapestry of the song. Far from playing all over each other, they open up the space in the music."

-review by www.culturebunker.com

"Like the bastard lovechild of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and Tom Waits in Sin City, shitfaced via Jack Daniels. Or ZZTop on Morphine... I couldn't decide which."

-review by some lady on the internet

reviews

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I am sooo proud of myself for finding this... Jackpot!
author: TexMutt
I stumbled across this while surfing and it was like finding buried treasure. A really fun listen. **WARNING: WILL INDUCE ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION**
Great CD I own a records store and everyone has been asking for it
author: Piranha Records
I own a records store and everyone has been asking for it. GREAT STUFF
LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT!!! I'm hoping they play a town near me sometime. Keeping my fingers crossed.....
author: Soda fan
If the devil had a band, it would sound like this.
We saw these guys on our wedding day in Vegas. It was a great night with great music....I listen to this cd at least once a week!
Awesome live, too
author: Eli
Saw them last night at the vibe in riverside. Perfect venue for these guys. Nice, dirty, rowdy rock n roll bar. Gothic bluegrass/punk band. Alcohol. Beautiful shit. Brought back memories of cruising through the strawberry festival at 1 am and seeing kids pick up guitars, fiddles, standup basses and beer and just blast trad american songs to pluto. Great shit.
Awesome live, too
author: Eli
Saw them last night at the vibe in riverside. Perfect venue for these guys. Nice, dirty, rowdy rock n roll bar. Gothic bluegrass/punk band. Alcohol. Beautiful shit. Brought back memories of cruising through the strawberry festival at 1 am and seeing kids pick up guitars, fiddles, standup basses and beer and just blasting trad american songs to pluto. Great shit.
greatest band ever buy this cd you will love it
author: dirty gary
my favorite record of the last ten years i love it there is nothing like it this record is tits
Musical whiskey from the 'still of a wizard who lurks in Los Angeles
author: Eric of Old Bull
This golden find is immediately flavorful and enticing but also has that rare quality of improvment with age which we see only in the finest, and rarest, of whiskies. Soda is a ringleader of a twisted circus, hallucinating the dreams of a Tom-Waitsian long gone American life as we remember it in our collective psyche.
RAD
author: Lindsay
this cd is awsome. i absolutly love it.
you will not regret buying this album...
author: gwen
The depth and complexity of this album, with its multitude of instruments and vocal harmonies, creates a rich and beautiful layered piece of art. Borrowing on different genres of music, this CD would fit in well on any record shelf. With songs that sway between fast and slow, punk and folk, this CD is a must-have.
AWESOME
author: Megan
This CD is amazing. Its so different than all the other music out there (in a really great way).
An overwhelming onslaught of feeling and sound.
author: teny
I love this CD. An overhwelming onslaught of feeling and sound that takes me to a different time and place.
This is one drink that is calorie free
author: Kyle From British Columbia
Great songs! I recommend this CD to everyone.
if you don't like it then that's your problem
author: sharon
i say that everyone who has two cents to rub together should buy this CD. after all, i want to help them on their quest of the holy grail and to buy a spaceship cause they'd really like to go to jupiter!
damn - this is so good it makes my head hurt.
author: rob d.
the bastard child of tom waits, nick cave, & squirrel nut zippers. It's one of those albums that seems like an old friend the first time you put it on - it hasn't left my cd player for a week now. brilliant.
I Feel an Urge to Wear Pinstripes and a Fedora
author: Kevin D.
Excellent disc. I was a fan of WAX back in the day and a huge Lisa Marr fan, so when I heard Soda and Lisa sing together I decided this was a disc I needed to have, and boy was I right. Thanks, keep rockin!
Totally awesome and gracefully composed!
author: Emily Gerzina
The Cd was great. Full of flavor wonderful harmonies, absolutely glad i bought this cd and everyone else should buy it!

Soda & his Million Piece Band