The Singleman Affair in Microphones in the Trees MP3 blog...

Songs of Green Pheasant, The Clientele, The Big Huge, A Taste of Ra, Fred Neil, Skip Spence, Leonard Cohen, The Handsome Family… sítar, panderetas, melodías cristalinas, silbidos a lo Morricone, habitaciones de hotel, ciudades de paso, road movies...The Singleman Affair me recuerdan a tantas cosas. a aquel primer disco de los españoles Grupo Salvaje, si se hubieran mudado al campo, en ‘Baby you’ve been on my mind’, a Forever Changes en ‘Sun in Your Eyes’, a los Beachwood Sparks más silvestres...Dan Schneider es un maestro a la hora de hacer canciones como ‘Dragonflies to Find’, tan emocionantes y perfectas, soleadas como ‘Little Sister’ o ‘Elaine’, campestres y divertidas como ‘Good to be with You again’, y en todas ellas suena tan seguro y familiar que Let’s kill the summer parece cualquier cosa menos un debut. 

...when Poptones signed the Singleman Affair they knew nothing about the band. Only of the songs. A sitar-little drone that was included on the Two Million Tongues Festival compilation alongside No Neck Blues Band, Josephine Foster, Pearls and Brass and Jack Rose.
They knew the song was pretty ace. And they knew the reference of the name ‘The Singleman Affair’ was a reference to the classic movie ‘The Graduate’ starring Dustin Hoffman...’

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