"How to Get Your Record Played
In Shops" is a tribute to the
streets where you find the
shops that play the records.
To pin down this increasingly-imagined
place, MIKE D.I.Y.s
it to the maxx, recording everything
himself and playing
most of it too, basing it largely
off of piano riffs, which is
something different, esp. with
adding touches of other keys
and notes of whatever fuck-all
fits into the scape. The combination
of these colorful backings
with MIKE's synapse-shifting
lyric wit leads us into new
odd corners, where the only
option seems to be the mirror,
and eyes looking back deadly
at us. Yet, in the chilly sling
of S.F., the legend of communal
lifestyle rules on, and with
help from the lads in spots,
and a BO "BOZMO" MOORE cover to
boot, this record can be stowed
safely 'neath the THE PEACERS
umbrella -- even in the soloist
of moments, when MIKE's hand
on the piano is delightfully
blurry among the reverbs, his
voice listing along the falsetto
borderline, smile frozen, as a
feeling of aloneness and absolute
nothing becomes poignantly
alive....
