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“…a tremulous voice which runs a close second to Will Oldham’s in its ability to evoke both
desolation and resigned world-weariness”
- The Wire on Whip’s previous album, ‘Atheist Lovesongs to God’, released on the Resonant label.
With its sweet, hushed tones and delicately cracking vocals singing plaintive and genuinely
stirring lyrics, ‘R. Mutt's Blues’ is the record that saw Jason Merritt slowly return from an entire
year of phonographic inactivity. The title refers to Marcel Duchamp's oft-misunderstood
Dadaist masterpiece, 'Fountain', and is a knowing and cheerful allegory to something we may
never understand. ‘Beast of Each’ is worthy of swoons, a great tristesse mumbled over a gentle
folk waltz, while ‘Wrecking Crew’ is utterly overwhelming and enveloping in its graceful and
intimate expression of melancholia. These songs will break hearts and mend hearts.
Portland's Jason Merritt writes songs for both himself (as Whip), and for his band, Timesbold.
While all are rich and melancholy Americana, the former are much softer and more delicate
than the full-band arrangement. Jason spent his youth in upstate New York, but eventually
found his way to that great and almost-mythical centre-point of rejected culture – Portland,
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Oregon. He was eager to escape New York by any means necessary, and around the year 2000,
he found that making records brought him out of the little town he was living in - Hopewell
Junction – and so the musical adventures of Timesbold and Whip began to take him around the
world, and further from New York with every endeavor. Look out for a UK tour at some point in
2008! |
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