What happens when you mix the production of Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse with the visual genius of David Lynch?  Well, unless you’re a fan of bit torrent you’ll probably never know.  An audio/visual collaboration between the three masterminds (with a host of music guests: Flaming Lips, Shins, Julian Casablancas, Jason Lytle etc…) is sitting on the shelf at EMI caught up in “licensing issues,” and will almost certainly never see the light of day.

Because the project incorporated a 100 page hardback book of photos by David Lynch, the book and a blank CD-R (to put the stolen copy of the album on) are currently being sold.  Good luck hunting down the album.

There’s a factory in Brooklyn making great bands, and it’s latest creation is called Suckers.  This four song EP gets in and out without a dull moment, and the indie-anthem “It Gets Your Body Movin” is the perfect leaving-the-listener-wanting-more exit.  The sound makes sense when you look at the production credits for Anand Wilder (Yeasayer) and Chris Moore (TV on the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs).  The influences seem to rest on their sleeves (David Byrne and Wolf Parade to name a few), but don’t get in the way due to the quality of the songwriting.

This should be a lesson to any new band - less is more.  Write thirty songs and release four.  The landscape of music has shifted, and the bombardment of content leaves people with little time to gain opinion.  Suckers asked for 14 minutes of my time, and as “Beach Queen” reached it’s chorus I knew I was going to be there for the remaining 12 minutes.

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