Mark Mallman - Between The Devil And Middle C
ARTIST.....: Mark Mallman
TITLE......: Between The Devil And Middle C
LABEL......: Badman Recordings
URL........: www.mallman.com
RIP DATE...: Sep-09-2006
STORE DATE.: Aug-29-2006
GENRE......: Indie
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 78,2 MB
Track Listing:
01 - Death Wish 03:27
02 - Tell Me How A Man Gets Close To You 03:18
03 - Substances 03:45
04 - Pompeii 03:41
05 - After The Hangover 05:38
06 - Pandora's Bottle 03:18
07 - Turn On Of The Century 03:02
08 - Knockout On 22nd St. 05:17
09 - Persuasion 03:18
10 - Tell It To The Judge 04:49
11 - 16 Animals 02:38
12 - Boots 02:26
13 - My, My I Got So High 03:55
14 - Untitled (Unlisted Track) 01:31
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50:03 min
Release Notes:
www.myspace.com/markmallman
www.badmanrecordingco.com
Mark Mallman tells stories. Long ones, sometimes lasting a day or
two without taking a break. Back in 1999 he performed one song
non-stop for over 26 hours. He beat his own record in September
2004 by performing over 52 hours and 600 pages of lyrics.
Unfortunately neither event has been acknowledged by the Guinness
Book of Records due to hazy guidelines on what constitutes a song.
Fortunately, Mark Mallman also records his songs; the kind that
you may have heard on the radio back in 1978 or on vinyl before
the shiny discs every made it to planet earth.
Hailing from Milwaukee and transplanted to Minneapolis in 1991,
Mallman was trained as a classical pianist since he was a child.
On his latest pop masterpiece and his fifth full-length studio
album, Between the Devil and Middle C, Mallman brews seventies and
eighties pop and pours them into a caffeinated power energy drink
that encourages guzzling straight from the bottle. The album mixes
intense piano-driven ballads with fiery pop and has the energy
which recalls another madman pianist but from across the water.
The songs are an eerie mixture of sweet pop, inflamed with lyrics
usually about hangovers, drinking wine, going to shows and getting
high. Lyrics slip through Mallman's clenched teeth as if the words
are churned through a meat grinder. His grinding vocals recall the
unique styling of T Bone Burnett blended with the sounds of T Rex.
"Substances" finds the singer looking for something deeper to life
but all he can find is addictive substance and evokes the
keyboards of Gary Numan. "Turn On of the Century" incorporates
most of the album's themes into one tasty sugar-coated candy bar
and contains the album's title. "Death Wish" deals with suspicions
and mistrust as Mallman spits out one-line fragments that gently
fly off the pages of his sketchbook. "16 Animals" leads off with
synthesizers that sound like "Pop Music" by M, and quickly
transcends into a accelerated comet. "Tell Me How a Man Gets Close
to You" is a romantic pop sing-along about long distance, yet
auspicious relationship. Throughout the album Mallman knits
together what appears to be random, incoherent and whacked-out
thoughts into a tightly woven, warm, fuzzy sweater perfect for
cool nights in the Twin Cities. (candiedpop.com)