A new Pomplamoose track, with a fresh video featuring author Nick Hornby and the immortal Ben Folds. Just another incredible piece of work from Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn. It's a catchy track with some stellar Hornby-penned lyrics and what I can only describe as some Carl Sagan-esque spoken voice track. Check it out, share it, and then go see the rest of Pomplamoose's catalog because they're nothing but excellent each and every time. Enjoy.
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10.29.2009
Pomplamoose EP
The internet is a powerful entity when it comes to garnering a following for an artistic endeavor. There's a MySpace page, and a Facebook page, and a Twitter whatsit, and on and on, all with the express hope in creating something BIG from something that 20 years ago (Hell, even 10!) would be very small. All this social media stuff allow for endless opportunities for individual, commodity and concept marketing. That's a good thing. We are lucky to expose our talents to others, where a big business would have been necessary before, our basements and a laptop are we need to show people what we can do. Great bands are out there too. For today, specifically, Pomplamoose.
Pomplamoose, comprised of Nataly Dawn and Jack Conte, both YouTube musicians, is an unsigned indie band well worth the time. That's an understatement. Pomplamoose is one of the best unsigned bands currently online. You can listen to all of their original work via their MySpace page, but I'd strongly recommend dropping the $9 on the EP download. (I mean, come on, don't be so fucking cheap!) This duo has a fun, catchy, if not completely unique indie/folk/rock/electro sound. Dawn's voice is somewhere around Feist and The Fiery Furnace's Eleanor Friedberger mixed with St. Vincent. It's these earthy, full, but still precious vocals (but not so precious as Jenny Lewis or Zooey Deschanel) that make each song instantly endearing. The music, whether limited to simple acoustic guitar or bolstered with electro-pop echoes and distant "ring tone" beeps and buzzes, alternately amazes and galvanizes the record. Pomplamoose has cultivated a style here, meeting the Postal Service-based genre expectations and expanding to include faster pacing and more pop-hit-gasm qualities. And while "pop" can sometimes be a degrading descriptor, it is a badge of victory here.
Their original work, beyond the digital music format, is also available as VideoSongs on YouTube. The videos are fun, brilliantly "directed" and very illustrative of the complete artistic package that Pomplamoose offers the audience. "Beat the Horse" is a personal favorite, but really Dawn and Conte are as visually gifted as they are musically. It's refreshing to find such competence and ambition in an unsigned band. There's a clear love for the music here, that doesn't involve big paychecks, just big dreams and big imaginations. Aside from the original EP tracks, you can download, for FREE, an assortment of covers that pit the pair against great tracks like "Mrs. Robinson" and Feist's "Gatekeeper".
Great tracks (original now): "Beat the Horse," "Little Things," and "Le Commun Des Mortels"
Go, to the internet, and seek Pomplamoose - Website, MySpace
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