Kelley Stoltz - TMR 219

bkramer10 · Post by **bkramer10** » Wed Aug 07, 2013 5:37 pm

Kelley Stoltz - Double Exposure - TMR 219

While many rocking bands in San Francisco and beyond claim to be 'garage' bands' - Kelley Stoltz has actually recorded his new LP "Double Exposure" in the garage behind his house. And while the car oil stained floors are covered by oriental rugs and there are no snow shovels laying around - there is a collection of vintage synths, 17 guitars, tape echos, mellotrons, a 50's jukebox, a Teardrop Explodes poster, a tape machine used by The Residents, an amp used by Stooge James Williamson, and a myriad other noise making devices which rear their heads on his new record. All told the place is called Electric Duck Studio and it's become a muse capturing zone for Stoltz, as well as Sonny & the Sunsets, The Mantles, Tim Cohen, Life Stinks, The Sandwitches and many other tuneweavers big and small.

"Double Exposure" is Kelley's first album in a while - near on 3 years since his last one, "To Dreamers" came out on Sub Pop. What the heck has he been doing since, you ask? Well renovating the garage for one, and using said garage studio to engineer, produce or encourage the above named bands… You see time flies when you're having fun. Add in some love, a little heartbreak, turning 40, deciding to jog everyday, staring at the wall, singing hundreds of songs into the phone, sleeping, recording an album of cover songs with his family, making a couple 45 singles, catching white wine buzzes, getting dropped by Sub Pop, playing keyboards on tour with Rodriguez, and signing on with old supporters at Third Man Records… really it's as good old Sandy Denny sang, who knows where the time goes.

Anyway, if you stir up all that stuff and a few other things we won't mention here, you have the makings of a fantastic and heartfelt record, "Double Exposure" has 10 new jams that Thee Oh Sees main man, John Dwyer, describes thusly, "A piece of gold in your ear, A lovely thought in your mind, A breeze in the sun, This record is perfect…"

Nicely put there Johnny! And you too will thrill to the sound of delay pedals twisting the keys on "Inside My Head", crane your neck to the backwards guitars of "Are You My Love", ramble and gamble to the clanging cymbals on the title track, question the sanity of a song called "Kim Chee Taco Man", and finally, fall down and weep at the sweet fluted sentiments of "It's Summertime Again".

For all of you Aussie rules fans, the album was mixed and mastered by Mikey Young of Eddy Current Suppression Ring/Total Control and features Stoltz playing most of the instruments himself and overdubbing parts through his trusty 8 track tape machine.

"Double Exposure" will be released on LP/Download by Third Man Records on 9/24/13 in the US and 10/7/13 in UK / Europe.

Hamptonio · Post by **Hamptonio** » Wed Aug 07, 2013 5:54 pm

that sample track is excellent!

gst510 · Post by **gst510** » Wed Aug 07, 2013 5:58 pm

Cool. I really enjoy his album "Below the Branches."

maxman142001 · Post by **maxman142001** » Wed Aug 07, 2013 6:05 pm

gst510 wrote:Cool. I really enjoy his album "Below the Branches."

Ditto...saw them open for The Raconteurs in 2006. Great set! Kelley is super nice too

flattop2001 · Post by **flattop2001** » Wed Aug 07, 2013 7:25 pm

After the glut of reissues this is something I can really get excited about. Watch those early records on Cass and handpainted, self released go through the roof.

Stl_ben · Post by **Stl_ben** » Wed Aug 07, 2013 7:33 pm

Higher than they were?
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flattop2001 · Post by **flattop2001** » Wed Aug 07, 2013 8:16 pm

If there any justice yes. His covers of Crocodials and heaven up here are pretty great.

Stl_ben wrote:Higher than they were?
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PugFaceRex · Post by **PugFaceRex** » Wed Aug 07, 2013 9:28 pm

flattop2001 wrote:After the glut of reissues this is something I can really get excited about. Watch those early records on Cass and handpainted, self released go through the roof.

now thats what i call insider trading

Kelley Stoltz is one of those artists whom I don't actively seek out to listen to very often ... but when I do, I wonder to myself why I'm not listening to him everyday.

PugFaceRex · Post by **PugFaceRex** » Wed Aug 07, 2013 9:36 pm

now this isn't totally representative of Kelley Stoltz but is one of my favorites to listen to, mostly because it's about baseball and it has first-person-story-telling lyrics.

jump on the bandwagon now... you can still find this one

Alabama Woody · Post by **Alabama Woody** » Wed Aug 07, 2013 9:51 pm

I hope for a blue room show, album release party, hell yeah!

Melon · Post by **Melon** » Thu Aug 08, 2013 4:39 am

very excited about this one!

AJ123 · Post by **AJ123** » Thu Aug 08, 2013 5:11 am

Really anticipating this one. I have one of his Sub Pop singles which has gotten quite a few spins

grumblestiltskin · Post by **grumblestiltskin** » Thu Aug 08, 2013 7:51 am

Wow, this sounds great!

Also, this guy played keys for Rodriguez? This puts third man at two degrees of separation from the man I would dearly love to see do a blue series.

orangeshoeskid · Post by **orangeshoeskid** » Thu Aug 08, 2013 8:37 am

He and Blackwell are really good friends too. That may be an even closer connection to TMR, well, besides his upcoming album.

Grimtale · Post by **Grimtale** » Thu Aug 08, 2013 11:20 am

Really glad I stashed away some pretty rare Kelley stuff a while back when collecting cass stuff.
Blackwell has a whole stack of those hand painted covers, good luck trying to get one off of him...
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