A music-obsessed, retired San Francisco lawyer, and author of the rock & roll memoir Jittery White Guy Music (available on Amazon)... picking a random album or song in his collection every day or so and sharing a few thoughts.
I posted about Columbus, Ohio's Smug Brothers two years ago, when they had their last full-length release. The general assessment remains the same: Just picture Guided by Voices' kid brothers, from the lo/mid-fi tracks that range from fully-realized indie pop wonders to tossed-off snippets; to the absurd song titles (Voltaire Basement! Sidewalk Champagne!); all the way to the amateurish collage cover art. As with their thousand prior releases, there are another fistful of stand-alone tracks that immediately grab you, and a few that quickly pass by and evaporate. Their anglophile inclinations may tip their sound slightly more towards the UK's GbV equivalent, Cleaners From Venus, this time around, but you get the idea.
Buy it on Bandcamp (though I'd probably start with the prior LP). Or just pay for $40 for the whole immense back catalog instead.
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