ARTiST : Bob Parins And True Love Always
ALBUM : The Kissing Rocks
LABEL : Independent
GENRE : Indie
RELEASE : 2007-01-31
STREET : 2006-10-17
ENCODER : LAME 3.90.3
QUALiTY : 214kbps avg / 44.1kHz / Joint Stereo
SiZE : 53.8 MB
PLAYTiME : 00:35:06
+ TRACK LiSTiNG +
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[#] [Track Name] [Time]
1. Mr Face 3:31
2. I'm Dancing 3:47
3. Polly 1:57
4. This Might Be The Coffee Talking 2:24
5. The Kissing Rocks 4:05
6. Spave Explores The Giant Microchip 0:33
7. How? 1:21
8. Like This! 1:10
9. I'll Be There 3:13
10. What It Is 6:33
11. I Know, I Know 6:32
35:06
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Listen, you've got favorites, I've got favorites. Maybe you like the
Beatles, maybe the last American Idol winner. I don't know, and that
isn't the point. But do you know who I like? Bob Parins, that's who.
(Incidentally, Bob likes Of Montreal, and wrote and recorded a song
named after their songwriting frontman, Kevin Barnes.)
I first heard Bob's music somewhere around the turn of the century (it
feels good to say that) when he performed with then-collaborator Nick
Pichet early versions of songs in a project that later turned into the
short-lived but much-beloved Brown Flamingos in Minneapolis. Since then,
of course, he's gone on to graduate from Berklee College of Music in
Boston and now lives, writes, records, teaches and performs in New York.
Bob's music spans generations, genres, and ideas. The music is informed,
not filled with quotes of legends gone by but of ideas inspired by them.
Sometimes it's pretty - beautiful, even - as in the understated,
gorgeous "This Might Be the Coffee Talkin'." You're as likely to notice
a jaw harp as an electric guitar, to tell you the truth, but you are
certain to hear the strongest melodies, harmonies and arrangements that
you're going to hear in pop music these days. Yes, yes, take a second to
re-read that sentence, if you want, but I stand behind it.
This kind of gushing isn't going to be okay with Bob, and I'm sure he's
mad that we got it out the door, having gone this long without saying
what he wanted us to. He'd probably rather talk to you himself, telling
stories about how he wrote a lot of these songs while sitting in a tiny
booth working as a parking lot attendant in Minneapolis, or how he lived
on a couch in a closet his first year in New York. But if we go on about
his personal stories (and quirks) we'd lack the time and space to
mention that Bob produced this album entirely on his own with a budget
of approximately zero (Wait, correct that: exactly zero.) and it sounds
spectacular.
Enjoy!