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The Singleman Affair is coming to the UK...
08/03/07The Singleman Affair
The Singleman Affair is coming to the UK. After being personally requested by Wilco to come on tour with their side project The Autumn Defence (shows which have been going so well ... that he has been personally requested to play a Wisconsin Festival opening for Paul Simon and Bob Dylan) ...is finally coming to England for a two week long club tour.
Direct in from the Weird but True Shocka' Department....
27/02/07Cherrystones finally rang in and the first thing that he said ‘Hey Poptones can I get 50 copies of the Singleman Affair single’? Why? Why do you want that? Well—it appears that the Singleman Affair’s beautiful single ‘Oh to Say’ and ‘Leaving a Mark’ has made the Record Collector’s Top 100 Modern Collectibles valued at £15.00 and we just found some more in the office and you can get it from us for £1.99! Bargain! To get your own copy please click here.
Psychedelic Spring time in Paris....
26/02/07Yes! The rumours are true! The Singleman Affair are playing the UK! We will let you know the dates when we have them all confirmed! And for all you lucky folks in France we are working on two big shows with the Singleman Affair in Paris! Think of it as a psychedelic springtime in Paris with some suprise guests and maybe Cherrystones on the decks if we can get him to pick up his phone!
Losing Today review the Singleman Affair's Oh To Say/Leaving a Mark!
09/02/07he Singleman Affair ‘Oh to say’ (Poptones).
We’d be the first to self administer a timely kick up the backside for stupidly letting this nugget get lost in the ever bulging CD pile. But get lost it did and found it we have. The Singleman Affair is in reality not a band or collective of talented musicians crafting an art of song writing thought lost, and if not lost then certainly believed to exist in the same was it real or did we dream it mystique as forms fables - but just one man - Dan Schneider. Schneider for his part carves gems from an archaic song craft - sometimes haunting often enchanting (just check out the nimbly drawn, deftly plucked and aching ‘Elaine‘). Whispery in texture these softly shimmering melodies are rooted with a timeless accent - if you didn’t know better you’d swear they’d been rare un-catalogued morsels from the 60’s unearthed in a long since disused Aladdin’s cave of a warehouse once belonging to a major label. One album under his belt the well received ’Let’s kill the summer’ (which to much gnashing of teeth we somehow missed) brought a wealth of comparisons to such artists as Cohen, Stevens, Harwood and Walker and listening to these three cuts featured here its easy to see why. Refined with a beguiling breathless beauty these gems breezily reveal with fleeting softness elements of the 60’s Cambridge scene succulently dipped with the merest washes of West Coast glow via a brief detour through the more delicately envisaged kaleidoscopic meets pastel outer fringes of the UFO psyche scene. Reference points currently - Clock Strikes 13, the Freed Unit and the Clientele (especially on the spectral ‘Oh to Say’) though retrospectively tracks like the sublime ’Leaving a mark’ hint at an invisible meeting point at the divide between Simon and Garfunkel and the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. A absolute revelation. http://www.poptones.co.uk
The Singleman Affair demos now online...
01/02/07Our favourite psychedelic super hero has put up two early demos for his follow-up to the critically acclaimed debut ‘Let’s Kill The Summer’—Wings and If I Only Fell In Love When I Was Young. Both tranquil, three-in-the-morning-watching-the-snow-fall sort of tracks that capture quick beauty all through his four track in his living room. To download the demos please go to myspace.com/thesinglemanaffair.
And look out for Singleman Affair to come over to the UK for a select series of dates.
The Singleman Affair is on tour with Wilco -- kind of.. sort of!
24/01/07Reclusive and all around psychedelic super hero The Singleman Affair has been putting on shows in his native Chicago, low-key happenings and have been attended by Wilco. And they in turn have invited the Singleman Affair to tour Canada and the USA with their band ‘The Autumn Defence’! This is all in preparation for The Singleman Affair landing in the UK in April. We’ve got some special happenings that we are planning that will kill yr head for that appearance. And remember, the Singleman Affair’s debut album ‘Let’s Kill The Summer’ is out now! To order your copy please click here. For the full tour dates please click below!
read more... Singleman Affair makes A Fool in the Forest top-spot...
02/01/07The Singleman Affair - Let’s Kill the Summer
Irony free, drenched in echo, it’s 1967 all over again as Dan Schneider perfectly channels the acoustic vibe of love, mostly using just guitar (or sitar), voice, ambient mics and tons of reverb. Let’s Kill the Summer creates a spare and spacious sonic space for watching the butterflies land in your lover’s hair. The songs are all originals (except for a cover of Nico’s “Little Bird") and they stand on their own, not as pastiche. In 1967, I probably wouldn’t have been interested at all in this music, but at this distance it sounds like just the remedy for contemporary angst and noise. Recommended particularly for those who like the pre-"Mrs. Robinson” folky’s folky songs of Simon and Garfunkel (e.g., “For Emily Wherever I May Find Her” or “Kathy’s Song” or “April Come She Will") and for anyone who missed or misses the self-styled troubadors of that era.
Schneider is based in Chicago, where in a more contemporary and electric mode he fronts the band Hummingbiird (previously endorsed here, in a post that also reveals the origins of “The Singleman Affair” name). The album has been released on the UK label POPTONES and not, so far, domestically. While the album is available as an import, it can be obtained more cheaply as a download from eMusic; also available there—and otherwise existing only as a UK 7-inch—is an additional 3-song EP that includes “Elaine,” a song about Mrs. Robinson’s daughter.
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