not so scary
I love this song, but it's totally not representative of the rest of the debut album, Every Joke Is Half The Truth, from Brooklyn's Scary Mansion. It's a weird little off-kilter thing. Queasy rhythms covered up with bottomed out distorted guitar and half breathy, half cracking vocals. It makes me think of Cat Power on some really unpleasant drugs. But in a good way.
The rest of the album is brilliant in a completely different way. More gentle emo singer-songwriter stuff. A sad girl singing sad but pretty songs reminding me a lot of a female fronted Songs: Ohia. Well, there's a nice undercurrent of strangeness to the rest of the album for sure, but it never quite comes to the fore again like in "Captain". I'm posting this song that isn't like the rest because I'm confident that bloggers elsewhere with tastes more on that side of things will post those songs and I want to make sure that this gem isn't overlooked. Or you can check out the MySpace page to hear those.
It's also worth noting that Leah Hayes, who appears to be the primary force behind Scary Mansion also draws comics which I happen to think rocks. More comic artists should become rock stars.