Flying Out Of The Washing Machine

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The Sproutts

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Disc 1:
#	Track Name	MP3 Sample
1	Ogre Song

2	Careful Not To Smother

3	Eskimo

4	Fantasnippet

5	If I Were A Mothman

6	When We Went To Sea

7	Darkness

8	Shake My Baby

9	Remember To Breathe

10	Tin Whistle Shake

11	She Is Fantastic

12	Accidental Rage

13	Teacher Of Elves

14	Yesterday When I Saw You

15	Telephone Number

16	Picnic Bitch

17	While I'm Alive And You're Alive

18	Chatterbox

Smoke Notes

Hailing from Wellington – musically by way of Dunedin – is a four-piece jangle-pop micro-orchestra: the Sproutts. Their new album 'Flying Out of the Washing Machine' presents 18 brief melodic gems that reflect on universal themes – the elusive attractiveness of bicycle-riding girls, life in an igloo and the despair of the bargain-hunter just too late to stake her claim over a second-hand picnic accessory. The disc is full to brimming with the kinds of melodies and vocal harmonies that were abundant in pop music’s golden days of the 1960s, and sounds as if it were recorded by elves using a museum’s-worth of second-hand musical equipment.

Their instrumental line-up may be slightly unconventional, but what the Sproutts lack in bass guitars, turn-tables and other such trendy ephemera, they make up for in organs, backwards guitars and electric violins. Yes, electric violins, but don’t utter the name ‘Vanessa Mae’ in their presence... where she is all candy-floss – appealingly fluffy, yet sickly in anything but tiny doses – the music of the Sproutts is more akin to cheap bladder wine – inexpensive to produce, deceptively easy to consume, and packing the unexpected kick of a spastic mule.

The Sproutts? Their name is a tribute to Tobin Sprout, the eponymous former guitarist of US lo-fi rockers Guided By Voices. Their songs too owe something to the ‘less is more’ doctrine followed by those disheveled pop icons, but without ever descending to quite the same appalling depths in recording quality. The Sproutts tend to err on the side of a chorus too few rather than letting a song outstay its welcome, but pack each short number with more than the maximum melody quota achieved by your average band.

Product Details

Artist: The Sproutts
Album: Flying Out Of The Washing Machine
Cat #: SPRCD05
Date: 27/04/2005
Format: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Label: Powertool
Usually Ships: 2 - 6 days
Genres: Alt/Indie/Punk , New Zealand
Normally: ~~$24.95~~
SmokeCDs Price: $21.95