***Warmy Girls, VELVET DAVENPORT’s third release with Moon Glyph, locates the band’s sonic architect and chief songwriter PARKER SPROUT displaying a rainbow of talents. Recorded in Sprout’s apartment studio last winter, the album is an effervescent brew of guitar and organ character sketches. Named after a feeling of affection and love, Warmy Girls is populated with men and women in a manner reminiscent of Ray Davies’ best Kink songs. Layered on a four-tracker, the sounds gambol and flit, trip and shimmer beneath a melange of bright-eyed vocal harmonies. Previous release on Shdwply. “The band has been creating some of the very best lo-fi 60s pop in the last year or so and from the first sound of Warmy Girls, this may be their best material yet.”—Reviler
LP $14.50
11/23/2010
MP3 $9.90
11/23/2010
“Moon Glyph's sonic template will expand with the release of Velvet Davenport's "Lemon Drop Square Box". Kaleidoscopically so. The Minneapolis group cherry picks elements from an idyll when psychedelia was beginning to burgeon mid-1960s. In fourteen paisley minutes, "Lemon Drop Square Box" tells the story of someone opening a box of candy to find baby venus inside and then this fortunate soul must take care of the goddess. The tale is enhanced by the baroque soundings of a group who've clearly mastered a blend of record collector homage and a sense of forward-looking fun. The record is in turns jaunty and ruminative, experimental and comforting. The band employs a palatable production showcasing its jangling guitars and cartwheeling organs. Wherever he is, Syd Barrett is smiling.” —Moon Glyph
MP3 $5.94
09/30/2009