Can you imagine if The Books, both Nick Zammuto and Paul de Jong, recorded an album with Wes Anderson? Me neither!
I’ve got some great news, though, in case a pairing like that strikes you the
right way. Dorcas Morton, the fake-ass name of Boston’s Brian Paulding,
releases music that sounds exactly like that.
Paulding uses all kinds of instruments within a home-recorded paradigm, and
enlists his pals Clap and Willard on a couple of tracks to help out with
spoken-word story-vocals, or, uh, chainsaw. And clarinet.
The tape is awesome, because I love me some Books, so it’s right up my
alley to begin with. It’s folky, it’s collage-y, and it features lots of
samples of people – presumably the people Dorcas Morton has never met (the
title!). Paulding even calls People “a
tape for tinkerers,” and there’s no way anyone can argue with that. It sounds
like there’s a lot of minute detail he sweated over. Composing these songs must
have been a lot of fun. And I’m not even a spoken word/poetry fan in any sense,
yet I did enjoy the excursions down those paths. The whole thing just makes me
happy a lot, and a grin this big can’t go unnoticed. Here you go, I’m sharing
it with you! J)))))))))))
It’s also from 2013, so it’s a straggler – give it some extra love.
--Ryan Masteller
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