Great Lakes Myth Society
Injecting amphetamines into the dusty veins of folk music, the Great Lakes Myth Society take the oft-stuffy notions of acoustic music and historical timepieces and bend them until they shatter. The band was founded years ago (as the Original Brothers and Sisters of Love) by brothers Tim and Jamie Monger, whose songwriting talents are matched by guitarist Greg Mcintosh’s able pen and supported by often five-part harmonies from bassist Scott McClintock and drummer Fido Kennington. Their self-titled album, just released on Stop, Pop and Roll, veers between atmospheric dreams and tooth-rattling rawk, with every shade in between, but their live show is where they change lives. Dressed nattily in skinny-tied suits, the band looks like four snake-oil salesmen and one hit man, and the raw energy that pours out of their instruments is enough to give the audience a sunburn from seven rows back.
Raw-edged and beautiful, charming and terrifying, epic and humble, the band crafts a bizarro blend of mid-period prog (King Crimson, early Genesis), smart pop (Robyn Hitchcock, XTC), late-60s British Folk Rock (Pentangle, Fairport Convention), and legit indie rock (the Decemberists, Andrew Bird, Augie March), bawdy drunken shouts, shape-note singing, Tin Pan alley vaudeville, Appalachian murder ballads, and churning sea shanties that still manages to sound contemporary and not labeled and tagged in some museum (although those guys probably would be into that.)
More Info:
Great Lakes Myth Society Official Web Site
Great Lakes Myth Society MySpace Profile
Key Recordings:
2005 – Great Lakes Myth Society
2007 – Compass Rose Bouquet
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