 17/12/2008 NUTS AND BOLTS: Dent May – ukulele / keyboards / vocals
STOMPING GROUND: Jackson, Mississippi, since 2005
SET TO SOUNDTRACK: The return of geek chic
DESTINED TO UPSET: Anyone who dislikes twee music
YOU’RE IN BUSINESS IF YOU LIKE: Lee Hazelwood, The Partridge Family, The Beach Boys, The Russian Futurists, Serge Gainsbough
Notion’s jaw dropped in baffled admiration after stumbling across the Youtube video to ‘Oh Paris!’, a track from Dent May’s first split EP. The 23-year-old troubadour has crafted one of those perfect pop moments that breaks your heart while dripping in originality. The track is imbued with an aching sadness as Dent croons about his love for Parisian girls over a gently strummed ukulele line, finger clicks and layers of doo-wop backing vocals.
On the other side of the vinyl EP is ‘Meet Me In The Garden,’ which sees Dent lamenting his way through three minutes and 19 seconds of bitter-sweet musings on unrequited love, with more harmonised backing vocals and bursts of wobbly synths. These betray a love for electronic music pioneer, Bruce Haack, who made children’s records in the sixties using weird and wonderful homemade instruments. And the man himself… what a man! He is all inch-thick circular spectacles, bad dancing, tight-fitting beige jeans and he lives in a trailer in the back-end of Mississippi. Listen to him - now.
‘MEET ME IN THE GARDEN/OH PARIS!’ IS OUT NOW (MAKE MINE)
Extracted from Notion Magazine |
