Orchard Thief: “On My Back”.
August 3, 2011, 0 comments
Ronnie Lee of the wonderful blissed-out bedroom pop project Panda Teeth recently hit me up to draw my attention to his pretty awesome label Cat People Records, a small operation dedicated to smooth yet experimental leftfield pop. He only recently started to make it “official”, so it’s a real pleasure for me to introduce you to one of his first releases since getting things organized.
Samuel Merlin Molstad aka Orchard Thief has actually been around for quite a while now, with the CDr Work already finished and subsequently dropped via Cat People in 2009, and fairly recently a cassette on Fire Talk Records. However, the Work (Plus) cassette that Lee put out about a month ago is way more than a mere re-release, with “an entire album’s worth of previously unreleased tracks that have just been sitting around on a shelf, un-heard for the last two years”. The whole album is a marvelously quiet and melodic piece of outsider pop, far away from anything hype-suspicious yet still very consciously crafted all along.
Listen to the beautiful opening track On My Back below and order the Work (Plus) C-60 over here. The album is also available on bandcamp.
