Max Tundra: Mastered by Guy at the Exchange

ha nothing else sounds like max tundra, maybe "one size fits all" zappa--

"a truce" is great

Note: "A Truce" isn't a "new song," really -- it's from that comp of musicians doing David Shrigley items, not a dribble from new-album stuff.

It is pretty great, though, yes.

A song that kinda reminds me of Max Tundra...

Elma Mayer 'My First Kazoo' from the 1985 comp 'a beginner's guide to COMA'

This was posted on Mutant Sounds, but there's still cheap (and sealed!) copies available for just $10 on the Rotary Totem website.

Note: "A Truce" isn't a "new song," really

Oh. Well. I liked it anyway!

Album details:
http://www.dominorecordco.com/uk/albums/11-08-08/parallax-error-beheads-you/

cool cover:

http://www.dominorecordco.com/images/artists/max_tundra/maxtundra_parallax.jpg

this is really good.

title not as good though

Wow, it's even better than what I expected it to be !!!
Will be on my 2008 top 10 for sure.

fun fun fun

i can't make out what's on the cover. are those thumb tacks?
ladies shoe heels?

"which song" is so great

"which song" is so great

It sounds like the song Michael Jackson will never again make.

or ever did make.

Looks like he's one-upping Of Montreal: instead of lamps or t-shirts or whatever, you can buy his new album as soup. Kosher chicken soup, to be specific. And it apparently comes with an extra limited edition download album, of covers of songs from his first LP.

SO GOOD.

I really need to order this, shit.

Yeah, me too! I really wanted the bonus disc that came with the soup can edition but then I realised it only came with a download voucher and no actual CD, and I didn't want to pay twice for the album when I have no idea what you're supposed to do with a limited edition soup can anyway. (Eat it and throw it out? Eat it, wash and treasure the can? Let it moulder unopened on yr shelves forever in the name of ROCK?)

Anyway, yeah, so good. Though I need to look at my setup as it's the most trebly (or upper-midsy) album ever on my system but I'm assured there is actually a healthy dose of bass which I'm not hearing.

Though I kind of think I may not be in the same place as Mr Tundra is heading for, because much as I love the new coherent songy nature of the album, my favourite is the track which starts as 3 minutes of oldschool Tundra instrumental business before getting all Rundgren (I hear "A Wizard, A True Star" a lot on here - just me?) on us. Having said that, as an album I think it's his most successful yet.

NB a passing spacecadet posts guaranteed to contain no soup, no bass and no new coherent nature.

Got my tin can yesterday...not gonna open it as I make the Best Chicken Soup in London(Carcass not whole fowl piece)...Listened twice already...Definitely a grower...Sounds more "Todd" than "Wizard" to me...Does sound incredibly tinny (no pun intended) though...Have'nt listened to covers album yet but will in near future...Just checked his playlists on Resonance FM...great taste in music...

Do not like.

This has really been growing on me. I like how the last few seconds of the album remind me of the end of the Entertainment Tonight theme.

are you referring to MBGATE or the new one?

The new one is amazing. The perfect pop of "The Entertainment", the manic chopping on "Orphaned", the heavy bends on "Number Our Days", the overall Buggles-worthy gloss on the vocal lines, the clever but ouch-worthy personal risk of the lyrics vs. the clean room OCD production, I could go on but the whole thing is jawdropping.

have you ever seen the holy mountain on ice?

I can't listen to the beginning of this song without imagining the opening graphics of Max Tundra Action News for Lego People. If I were young and bored I'd put together a video montage of news anchors turning to face the camera and throw it on YouTube.

The guitar freakout after the vocal part is just ... astounding.

Also he rhymes "pale saints" with "sale paints!"

The new one, Cutty.

the opening graphics of Max Tundra Action News for Lego People

YES

The new one, Cutty.

ok, you should make that clearererer

so you did some work for meeeeeee and you didn't get paid

The first time I heard that, I was worried it was about his sister.

I don't know if you got my letter but everyone thinks you're great

Listening to the new one right now for the first time (came in the mails days ago and i have been dying for the time to put it on) and it is GREAT. Coherent thoughtful response will take a lot longer but it is if anything even more joyful than MBGATE, definitely more delirious. Loving it.

I definitely think this is better than MBGATE

First listen, but Number Our Days is absolutely astonishing.

I bought the soup and I still don't know what to do with it. It is in a rust-flecked tin which has no best before on, so possibly best to decide sooner rather than later. The boyfriend has been asking awkward questions.

Album is great, yes. Also, anyone know anything about Toirse O'Riordain, who does one of the interpretations on the bonus soup-edition mp3s? Cz his one's pretty ace but I can't google a thing about him.

I keep forgetting to listen to this. I really enjoyed Mastered By Guy.

Saw MT in concert tonight (opening for the Junior Boys, who were good but not so exciting - great beats, few hooks, songs too long for my taste) ...anyway, Max was great, no complaints except I wish he'd played longer. God, Parallax Error is a really fucking good record.

This jumper was bought for 20p
The trousers and shirt were thrown in free

I still haven't eaten the soup and I still want to know more about Tóirse Ó Riordáin. Suggestions on both gratefully received!

I guess a tin of uneaten Max Tundra soup is not going to be the coolest item of rock'n'roll memorabilia in years to come so I should just eat the thing - who could not want to taste one of their favourite artists' cooking? (Uh, G G Allin fans, yeah.)

Why don't you write to the man himself and ask him?

oh, man: I got really excited to eat my soup, opened it up, and then ... something seemed to have gone slightly off about it.

(the preceding is not intended as a disparaging or libelous statement concerning the quality or safety of Max Tundra Liquid Soup products.)

max tundra is at spaceland tonight. i'd really like to go. should i go?

Yes do go! MT is a performing machine, not quite sure how he manages to hit all those keyboards in time so quickly, or where he gets his energy. Fun!!!

Max Tundra fans - listen to his awesome radio show on Resonance FM!

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ok how the ~fuck~ did i not know about this

MBGATE or Parallax Error, or both?

I like the former a lot, but Parallax Error ended up being one of my most listened to albums last year - it's so dense with ideas, and so immaculately made but also enormous fun to listen to. I absolutely love his lyrics as well.

Both! And the first album. Was always gonna be love. Dude started out from the same wide-eyed pack of Cardiacs obsessives as Kavus Torabi. The latter ended up IN Cardiacs, the former just ended up playing 'em on his radio show. And making some completely awesome electronic music.

So good - really what's not to love? I had no idea he was a Cardiacs stan, but that makes complete sense - there's surely something of the same intricacy and attention to detail in their musics. Max Tundra played somewhere round here last year and I managed to miss it, which is a source of bitter regret.

PLUS: the Silverlink remix of "Which Song" (which I first heard on Spotify, and am going to listen to right now) is militantly stupendous.

ha this is total LJ BAIT LOL