Patrick Cleandenim - The Stool Pigeon 4/5

Patrick Cleandenim Flux review

Patrick Cleandenim on Ba Da Bing!

After an intensive period of wine and dining in some of the finest restaurants New York City has to offer, Patrick Cleandenim has been signed up for the U.S/Canada to Ba Da Bing! records by label head honcho Ben Goldberg. As you may be aware Ba Da Bing! released the huge selling Beirut album "Gulag Orkestar" last year. They hope to have the album on the streets and sidewalks of North America sometime in June 2007.

Patrick Cleandenim - The Times 4/5

Patrick Cleandenim - Alternative Ulster

Alternative Ulster have given Baby Comes Home a stunning review. Click on the above image to read in full.

Patrick Cleandenim reviewed at Daytrotter

Andrew Morgan has reviewed Baby Comes Home for Daytrotter

Patrick Cleandenim - Neu Kid on the Block

From the first issue of Neu Magazine, New York:

In 1983 Beat Icon William S. Burroughs packed up his Bowery, New York belongings and moved to Lawrence, Kansas to finish out the chapters of his life. In a reverse pilgrimage of sorts, young Patrick Cleandenim, product of Lawrence, has made his way to New York's Lower East Side and Cooper Union where he plies his craft in music and visual arts.

"Baby Comes Home," Cleandenim's debut album will be released in Europe in early 2007 with stateside release soon thereafter. Cleandenim has crafted a song cycle with all the ambition of 64-track orchestrations that pays homage to the sounds of glam, jazz rock, and lounge, but the songs' often up-tempo beats and full sound sometimes belie their more twisted and dark lyrics (the track "Cognac and Caviar," for instance. is about poisoning...)

In the unending desire to classify and quantify, Cleandenim's music has typically been categorized as jazz rock but while jazz is important to Cleandenim, he explains that "it's more about the process than the actual product." As for musical influence, Cleandenim says he is as indebted to the producers Phil Spector and Jean-Claude Vannier, who produced french troubadour Serge Gainsbourg, as he is to a more likely comparison of a Beck.

A healthy tradition of rock bands have taken in the crucible of the "Art School's" nurturing womb - from Pink Floyd's Regent Street Polytechnic to the Talking Head's RISD - and Patrick and his Cooper Union mates have high hopes to continue in their predecessor's footsteps.

- Matt Saha

Patrick Cleandenim - Word Up!

The first review of Patrick Cleandenim's Baby Comes Home has been published in the excellent and extremely readable Word magazine.

There's some more exciting news on the horizon regarding the album's US release which we should be able to confirm in the next few days.

The Autumn Defense Winterlight

The Autumn Defense is the band led by Wilco's Pat Sansone and John Stirratt. Have been enjoying their latest self titled album (Broadmoor records). This is one of the stand out tracks from that album.

Kevin Tihista Lose The Dress

Playlist March 2007

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Nature Boy
Patrick Cleandenim Days Without Rain (instrumental)
Camera Obscura Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken
The Tyde A Loner
Proud Simon American Caskets
The Decemberists Perfect Crime #2
Archie Bronson Outfit Cuckoo
Jarvis Cocker Don't Let Him Waste Your Time
Willy Mason Save Yourself
Andrew Morgan We Almost Made It
The Autumn Defense Winterlight
Sparklehorse Shade and Honey
Kevin Tihista Idiots
Conner Go Back
Doleful Lions Aftermath
Imitation Electric Piano Leave Her Johnny
The Folk Implosion Natural One
Howlin' Rain The Firing of the Midnight Rain

Patrick Cleandenim Baby Comes Home

An early contender for album of the year, Patrick Cleandenim's Baby Comes Home will be released in the UK/Europe on Monday April 16th 2007 on Broken Horse records.

Described by label mate (& no stranger to critcial acclaim himself) Andrew Morgan as "A wall-to-wall clinic in songwriting ", the future is looking very bright for Mr Cleandenim.


You can here three of the album's 11 tracks here.

Patrick Cleandenim Time Out (London)

"Fur coat and rakish white panama hat worn without irony? Lavish, Spector-ish production? Multi-tracked vocals? Could Mr. Cleandenim be the saviour of jazz rock? Do not even think about listening to this swoonsome jazz-waltz – redolent of Scott Walker before he started incorporating sides of pork into the recording process – without a pack of Gitanes and half a bottle of ouzo to hand."

-David Jenkins, Time Out London
On Days Without Rain

December 6th playlist

The Pernice Brothers B.S Johnson
Peter, Bjorn and John Young Folks
Conner Go Back
Doleful Lions Hazlehurst
David Vandervelde Jacket
Songs Ohia Captain Badass
Paul Westerberg Love You in the Fall
Doleful Lions Magic Without Tears
Lou Reed Hangin' Round
Simon Joyner The Only Living Boy
Kevin Tihista 1500 Miles
King Creosote Not One Bit Ashamed
Crazy Horse Downtown
The Dears Whites Only Party
Magnolia Electric Co Talk To Me Devil Again
The Earlies No Love In Your Heart
Doleful Lions The Head of the Shared Anti Christ
Peter, Bjorn & John Roll the Credits

Andrew Morgan's albums of 2006

Best of 2006

01. Patrick Cleandenim - Baby Comes Home

favorite track: Cognac & Caviar

02. The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth

favorite track: Killing Lies

03. Ghosty - No Nothing

favorite track: Like a Bad Lie

04. John Vanderslice - Pixel Revolt

favorite track: Letter to New Haven

05. The Clientele - Strange Geometry

favorite track: E.M.P.T.Y.

06. The Walkmen - A Hundred Miles Off

favorite track: This Job is Killing Me

07. The Futureheads - News & Tributes

favorite track: Burnt

08. Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors

favorite track: The Youngest Was the Most Loved

09. Devendra Banhardt - Cripple Crow

favorite track: Now That I Know

10. Beirut - Gulang Orkestar

favorite track: Postcards from Italy

David Vandervelde

Jacket, the debut 7" on Secretly Canadian by David Vandervelde hasn't been off the broken horse turntable for the last couple of days.

"David Vandervelde's 60s/early 70s-influenced folk pop is equal parts song craft and production technique. At 22 years old, Dave is not only talented at playing guitars, keyboards, and many other instruments, but he is also an accomplished songwriter, engineer and producer. He has received mention in a Tape Op article (May/June 2004) featuring Jay Bennett and his Chicago studio Pieholden Suite Sound, where Dave has lived and worked for two years. During this time Dave and Jay collaborated on numerous recording projects including Jay’s own record “Bigger Than Blue,” Mark Eitzel, Jonathan Rice (Warner Bros.), Jon Ralston (Vagrant Records) and The Outlaw Family Band. David's two most recent production/recording efforts are the new Entrance "Prayer of Death" album and Jay Bennet's new album "The Magnificent Defeat" on Rykodisc. Dave currently resides in Chicago and will be touring in months to come. "

Undertow Music

You can download Jacket here

boomkat.com on Conner

The good folks at boomkat.com who are stocking Conner's Hello Graphic Missile have been singing its praises.

"Conner are a band from Lawrence, Kansas but seem to be getting their kicks listening to East Coast retro punk and classic British rawk music. Frontman James Duft even sings like a drowning limey so how did they end up with this obsession coming from Kansas of all places? Well let’s blame the internet, everyone else does – and when four guys from the mid-west can make music that practically forces you to get up and dance your socks off it barely even matters. Already garnering rave reviews worldwide ‘Hello Graphic Missile’ is the band’s debut album and has been aligned among records by everyone from the Killers (who Conner supported) to The Strokes (who Conner actually sound a lot like) which might give you an inkling as to what you’re going to be getting. It’s hardly original, but I don’t think the band would ever claim to be re-inventing the wheel, instead they’re more than happy slamming out ballsy tunes for party girls and boys, tunes that could very easily sell more than a mere handful of records. Get your best togs out and scrape that gum off your sneakers – we’re going to dance! "

boomkat.com

Download a brand new Conner tracks (Go Back) from their my space page here

Patrick Cleandenim Esopus 7

Patrick Cleandenim has a track featured on the accompanying CD to Arts periodical Esopus Magazine. The CD also features tracks by The Earlies. El Perro del Mar, The Rosebuds amongst others. Each artist was given a Ouija band to use as a songwriting tool to create a track specifically for the CD.

Conner reviews

Conner's Hello Graphic Missile is released on Broken Horse on November 13th. Here's the word on the street so far.


Kerrang 4/5 "A sound that oozes the same laconic, subtly exotic cool that made The Strokes such an instant hit over here. A great number of brilliant songs veering from sparse new wave strutters to edgier darker material that recalls Fugazi at their most calm and elegant. "

Artrocker "They've got lots of songs, sh*tloads of songs, good un's too. Play it loud and long"

Alternative Ulster " It's a gem of an album that rewards repeated listens. Make it one of your discoveries of the year."

Unpeeled "Funky and deliberate stuff, excellent percussion and timing".

Blah Blah "If you like The Killers, Arcade Fire and Hi-Fi you will love Kansas based garage rock band Conner".

Burton Mail "Kansas combo Conner draw from East Coast influences The Strokes and Television on this refereshingly simple and uncluttered UK debut that demands little from the listener but delivers much. Well worth a spin."

Peterbrough Evening Telegraph " Kansas band do a neat update of classic rock (Stones, Iggy, Smiths). With cool guitars and vocals, they can't go wrong."

Room 13.com 11/13 " This is a band to embrace in their infancy, to befriend whilst they are still playing small venues so that come the day that everyone and their dog knows the band you can smugly gloat about how you knew the Kansas four piece before they broke out of the mid west and left Dorothy far behind."

Get Ready to Rock.com " There's some great guitar work, some great songs and some great vocals, and while it may be garage rock, there's enough potential on display here, and enough variety of styles to suggest that Conner could well be the next Killers. "

Soundsxp.com "Window Shopping' lashes together Northern Soul riffs and hardcore guitar pyrotechnics in outstanding fashion - the Four Tops meets Husker Dü on T-Rex's Dansette! "

Subbacultcha.com " Employing a guitar driven garage-rock sound, influenced by the likes of Richard Hell and The Stooges, and in more recent times the Kings Of Leon, Conner have created a collection of songs that hurtles through the three quarters of an hour the fourteen tracks to play out (one is hidden). 'Floating On An Error', one of the band's slower and more patient tracks, is an obvious highlight as it builds and crescendos into a wall of sound that crashes down as the song abruptly ends. Throughout the record the band use this technique to great effect; there's a pleasant mixture of riffs and full blooded thrashy chords, almost as if the guitars provide the tempo ahead of the drums and lead the drummer rather than the other way around. And it works too. "

Stingray

Patrick Cleandenim has posted a brand new track on his my space page called Stingray. Can't imagine it will be there forever so check it out now.