East River Pipe New Album Garbageheads On Endless Stun

i didnt know either, i thought he might have packed it in. im hopeful of this, i would like it to be good

not my thang, but it was listed on manchester's piccadilly records - new releases e-mail guide yesterday:

East River Pipe : Garbageheads On Endless Stun
Merge

You'd be forgiven for thinking 'who the hell...' and in the four years since the last album (a year end top 10 in our shop) i'd gone from 'where the hell ...' to thinking I'd never be hearing from F.M.Cornog again. Because if his records are anything to go by, you'd imagine he'd have difficulty buying a loaf of bread, let alone making another album. This is sad, yearning, bedroom music. But with 99s "The Gasoline Age" and its perfect blend of J.A.M.C. melodies (and the odd Stone Roses epic) and Springsteen poetry, you felt that if he got out of that bedroom, world domination could be his. Indie sound, indie attitude; absolutely massive music! Which brings us to this album. Still just F.M.Cornog, 'songs and noises' still made on a Tascam 388 mini-studio, still a bit Mickey Mouse in its cute keyboards and pretty guitars, but: the songs! the songs! did melancholy ever feel so good? Dynamically the songs are even broader in scope: happier, sadder, poppier, deeper, ridiculously unconcerned with any notion of fashion or style. Good songs, however they're done, always transcend that stuff. And these are very good songs indeed. Celestial pop!!!!!!

jamc? stone roses? springsteen?

i must admit, i'd never thought of ERP like that! i doubt i would ever want to play the records if they sounded like that

I'm with Gareth there, scary thought. I was just thinking about them/him the other day, Shining Hours in a Can is lurvly.

I've just bought it, so I'll give my opinion after a couple of listens

I agree with Gareth, I can see the Sprinsteen comparison, but The Roses and JAMC?????

I just found this review on Stylus:

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=339

Which doesn't sound especially promising....

that makes it sound like all the other lps! that review makes it sounds quite good i think, i am glad it is not the things the reviewer appears to want it to be

Have heard it, and it's nothing like the Roses, JAMC, or Springsteen. In fact, it's just like all the other ERP records -- only the sound is slightly better and the inspiration is slightly worse.