Sonny and the Sunsets just announced the first single, ‘Well But Strangely Hung Man’, off their upcoming album Moods Baby Moods. The album was produced by Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs. ‘Well But Strangely Hung Man’ finds Sonny and the Sunsets turning up the 80’s funk a bit while staying true to the group’s unique weirdness, sense of humor and off kilter delivery.
Listen to ‘Well But Strangely Hung Man’…
More about Moods Baby Moods via polyvinylrecords.com…
The modern age sends love letters on yellowed, empty pages. It’s got telepathic advice gurus in its timeline and deep sea creatures washing up on its shores. It’s got plugs, buttons, and illusions, and a grocery store whose aisles correspond to Dante’s infernal circles, plus a nebulous sense of ephemeral weirdness. It’s got Moods Baby Moods and the existential angst it yields has Sonny Smith in a funk, but he’s turned it into funk.
On previous records, the Sunsets have plundered a wide spectrum of musical appropriation (garage-rock, forgotten AM radio fodder, Modern Lovers, late-era Clash, Doo-Wop, and the Velvet Underground, to name a few.) Mood Baby Moods follows suit, and on this outing we find the Sunsets, along with producer Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs, repurposing early ‘80s funk and new wave with rap beats and collages from both sides of the ocean (be it Niles Rogers, Jah Wobble, The Gap Band, Orange Juice, Trans-era Neil Young or The Tom Tom Club.) These are songs that juxtapose the haze of today with a vibrant and colorful explosion of sounds and 180 degree turns…read more
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