Mellotronists

After a two week dry spell, some decent 'tron pops up on the debut 
Saturday Looks Good To Me (yep, that's the name of the band) "All 
Your Summer Songs" CD (Polyvinyl PRC-060). Overall, the disc is an 
incredible decelerated spacious-sounding Beach Boys-meets-Byrds wig 
out with dense tripno treatments. Sounds like it's right out of the 
mid 1960's, but with a strange up to date and dark twist to it. The 
song "Ambulance" has up front strings pitched down and follows up 
with flutes that are also forward in the mix. A refreshingly oblique 
CD recorded over a two-year period all over southern Michigan mostly, 
and features most notably links to His Name Is Alive...Mellotron 
player is Dave Shettler.

Another great CD that really knocked me flat was the new Kaada on 
Ipecac, titled "Thanks For Giving Me Your Time". Lots of late 50's 
and 60's doo-wop, old school R&B and funk all cut up breakbeat style 
and just clever as all getout...think Portishead meets Freddy Fresh & 
maybe you'll get some idea of this unclassifyable, uncomparable debut 
from this Norwegian--it came out a couple years ago, but just out in 
the States. No Mellotron...but what a creative groundbreaking project 
to loop all this stuff together and give it true headphones and club 
appeal without going the "stars on 45" treatment.