The Singleman Affair New Single!

25/08/06

The Singleman Affair
‘Oh To Say’/ ‘Leaving A Mark’/ ‘Elaine’
Debut 7” Single & Download
Poptones, 16th October 2006

“A luminous psych folk delight [that] sounds like it might have been recorded in 1968.” Time Out ****

“Full of sitar, delicate guitar lines and introspective echo box vocals. A drowsy classic to sink your mind into.” Dazed & Confused

“An album that’s curiously easy to treasure. More like this please” NME 8/10

“Distilled from John Martyn, Tim Buckley [and] Donovan, the production sounds like a study in 1960’s production techniques.” Big Issue***

“Within these reverb-drenched, acoustic guitar lines Schneider also locates a bewitching, sinister tone.” Q***

“A truly unexpected gem.” Mojo****

Recorded at home on a dime, The Singleman Affair’s critically acclaimed ‘Let’s Kill The Summer’ album truly came out of left-field, and following the amazing critical response to this shining diamond in the dirt, Poptones release a single from the record, ‘Oh To Say’/ ‘Leaving A Mark’ on 16th October.

Derivative perhaps, yet strangely unaffected, the songs speak for themselves, beautiful & utterly compelling, from the cinematic sitar-drench of opener, ‘Is Madras Morning Is’ to the drone chord of ‘Dragonflies To Find’, ‘Let’s Kill The Summer’ is a beautiful journey that keeps moving on: through the ghosts of Cohen’s ‘Famous Blue Raincoat’, through Midnight Cowboy, Morricone, Cat Stevens, Buckley….

The Singleman Affair is Dan Schneider, a one-man Jandek at war with himself trying to create iconic, timeless, classic songs. A short time spent in the company of ‘Lets Kill The Summer’ will find the listener indoctrinated into the grooves of dusty old 7"s, peppered with references to the Byrds, Scott Walker, Ananda Shankar, Leonard Cohen, Fred Neil and less known cult artists such as McDonald and Gilles and Christine Harwood.

‘Let’s Kill The Summer’ is esoteric, atmospheric. Schneider has set out with some home recordings to make extraordinary songs that seem to exist in their own place & time, sitting comfortably today, perhaps, alongside the likes of Devendra Banhart and The Flaming Lips. Using the same recording techniques as his hero Skip Spence, The Singleman Affair have used old reverb units and spacious room mic’s to give each song a haunting, expansive feel, not to mention a disorientating, evocative soundtrack for the 21st century.

http://www.myspace.com/letskillthesummer

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