Jerusalem And The Starbaskets

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3...according to our Clinton on Fri 27 May, 2011.

Where do they get those names? Jerusalem and the Starbaskets. Right then. Its very messy strung out lo-fidelity pop - the term I believe is shit-gaze, or its sister sub-sub-genre shoe-shit. Psychedelic Horseshit an' all that. There's a lot of 'shit' about these days isn't there? I'm reminded also of playful loafers Ween and bands such as The Tinklers. They mess about across genres with country, folk, noise pop being covered and suddenly when you think you've got them figured a truly lovely guitar instrumental which springs out of nowhere. There's also a bit of the Ariel Pink aesthetic in some of the tunes particularly 'Walking across your Grave' (I think - the titles are as messy as the music) which is the standout here coming across as Ariel Pink dabbling with mid-'80s US jangle pop rather than Prince. Although a bit light on actual 'tunes' strangely it's like they found their muse on the B-side with some excellent melody behind the fuzzed up noise, occasionally sounding like early Yo La Tengo in a food blender. Either that or there's some serious fluff on my needle.

Jeremy Freeze is a Memphis born songwriter who has spent the last few years in Columbia, Missouri playing and recording with Kim Sherman as Jerusalem and the Starbaskets. Before yr preconceived notions of Missouri make things cloudy, consider the Black Artist Group, Screamin' Mee Mees, Drunks with Guns, Gene Clark and a whole lot of other shit that you don't know about get in the way. Lest there be other confusion, my friend Oliver, this 65 year old dude from Kashmir, told me DOST means "brother man". So basically, DOST is "friend" but a more familiar way of the word. Just so happens that it's the phonetic same as "dosed". One crystalline thing herein is the Jams. Freeze has reached that point where he's saying more by saying less and that's a level that many songwriters never reach. After a few yrs of playing gigs with Times New Viking, Wooden Wand and a short list of more or less limited releases, DOST is the bands first readily available release and we're going to do our best to get it everywhere.

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