Additional Moog, like many British bands before them, took a classic
American music format — in this case the alt-country of Gram
Parsons, The Band, Wilco, and others — and filtered it through
their English sensibility to present us with a version of America
that exists purely in their imagination, yet which, in many ways,
is closer to pure Americana than any U.S. band can hope to aspire
to.
Songs like “Avalanche Days” and “Alaska”
portray a mythical America that would have felt right at home on any
Gram Parsons album, while “Trout Thing” and “Silver
Diver” betray, in a good way, their British lineage, bringing
to mind more T. Rex than the Flying Burrito Brothers. All in all,
this is a collection of songs worth taking note of, musically and
metaphorically.
Additional Moog originally started out as a one-man studio project
influenced by the music of Simon & Garfunkel, Neil Young and the
Silver Jews and the song titles of Captain Beefheart. James Williams
played and recorded everything himself until finally finding three
other musicians into both ABBA and ELO.
The original Admoog demos proved quite popular, notching up more
than 30,000 downloads on MP3.com, the grandaddy of digital download
websites. Along the way, former Pavement auxilliarist Bob Nastanovich
signed up as a collaborator, and the band was on its way.
Additional Moog have recently signed with Lost Cat Records, who have
released “Lost Engines” and the single “Holy Jukebox”
as Additional Moog's first official stateside releases.
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