2013-11-21
New Zealand has its very own Ariel Pink. Connan Mockasin, a mop-topped blonde "pop sprite" - who broke onto the scene with his first solo effort, 2010's Forever Dolphin Love - is the newest sensation in the world of weirdo psyche-funk. With Caramel, Mockasin comes across as a bizarrely seductive figure, each song oozing with undeniably sexy grooves and his accompanying voice that croons or growls, depending on the context. The fact that the album was self-recorded within a month's span in a Tokyo hotel room makes too much sense.
NUTTIN BUT STRINGZ
Struggle From the Subway to the Charts
Robert Gordon
I'M COMING HOME
TRAVIS
Ode to J. Smith
ROCKIN' JASON D. WILLIAMS
HILLBILLIES AND HOLY ROLLERS
GREG JOHNSON
Here Comes the Caviar
Peter, Bjorn, & John
Writer's Block
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