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  2.  
  3.   Artist:      DM Stith
  4.   Album:       BMB
  5.   Label:       Asthmatic Kitty
  6.   Playtime:    28:29 min
  7.   Genre:       Indie
  8.   URL:         www.asthmatickitty.com
  9.   Rip date:    2009-07-01
  10.   Street date: 2009-07-07
  11.   Size:        38.46 MB
  12.   Type:        Normal
  13.   Quality:     178 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
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  15. - Release Notes ------------------------------------------------------------- -
  16.  
  17.    Heavy Ghost, the debut album from DM Stith, had an almost supernatural effect
  18.    when it was released in March of 2009. Reviewers and fans alike acclaimed it
  19.    as a stunning debut unlike anything else they'd heard in a while. Stith's
  20.    peers received it just as well: Ed Droste of Grizzly Bear twittered about it
  21.    calling it a "lovely album," and Bat for Lashes picked it for her New York
  22.    Times playlist, saying 揑t traverses all these magical landscapes?almost
  23.    like Alice through the looking glass. Like you抮e being sucked into a secret
  24.    world."
  25.  
  26.    Now, Stith returns with BMB, a seven song release and the first in a trilogy
  27.    of EP抯 to be released before the end of the year. The version of "BMB" found
  28.    on this EP is slower than the version on Heavy Ghost. It is starker, almost
  29.    skeletal in the way it reveals the turning gears of the song. In it, Stith's
  30.    reverb drenched vocals drift over a leading soft piano, ghostly choral
  31.    chants, and the occasional whisper. Where the Heavy Ghost version of "BMB" is
  32.    a tease into a mid-album lacuna, a transition for the albums themes of waking
  33.    dreams and spiritual torment, this original resolves more like a traditional
  34.    pop song, even using some of the most centrally canonical lyrics of the love
  35.    ballad 揵e my baby厰 It is kind of a hopeless love song - no doubt, a boon
  36.    for Stith fans.
  37.  
  38.    It is fitting then, that Stith covers a track by the same name: The Ronettes
  39.    "Be My Baby." Shedding the original's famous backing vocals in favor of a
  40.    minimal melody, Stith抯 trademark falsetto is full of longing and relentless
  41.    desire, converting the classic 60s pop song into music that could easily
  42.    soundtrack a David Lynch dream sequence; a brave yet beautiful homage.
  43.  
  44.    From one obsessive love song to another, the EP also contains an astonishing
  45.    rendition of Randy Newman抯 "Suzanne" (from 12 Songs). If anything, and this
  46.    is a bold claim given Newman抯 formidable career, Stith has amplified the
  47.    song's sense of the stalker. In the hands of Stith, "Suzanne" becomes a truly
  48.    ominous creature: 揂nd when you go to the pictures/And I know you do/Don抰
  49.    take no one with you/Cause I抣l be there too?
  50.  
  51.    Completing the seven tracks alongside a new rendition of "Around the Lion
  52.    Legs" and "Untitled," the EP's finale, are two remixes of "BMB." Occasional
  53.    Prefuse 73 collaborator Roberto Carlos Lange infuses the song with
  54.    experi-latin, and Son Lux (himself recently championed by Nico Muhly)
  55.    interprets the song with a wary sense of distance and ritual.
  56.  
  57. - Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -
  58.  
  59.   01. BMB (Demo)                                                        ( 3:21)
  60.   02. Around The Lion Legs (Slow Dance Version)                         ( 4:38)
  61.   03. BMB (Roberto C. Lange Remix)                                      ( 3:37)
  62.   04. BMB (Son Lux Remix)                                               ( 5:35)
  63.   05. Suzanne (Randy Newman Cover)                                      ( 4:01)
  64.   06. Be My Baby (Ronettes Cover)                                       ( 4:25)
  65.   07. Untitled                                                          ( 2:52)
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