Jay Munly
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Jay Munly's Galvanized Yankee acts as a compendium of tales, holding a collection of old folk stories dealing with life, death, and God above. The songs primarily consist of spook and gloom, of a sound that's oddly Southern gothic for a guy born in Quebec (and sometime resident of N.Y.C., Austin, and Denver). Images of desolate farmland, of Hollywood ghost towns, of deserted battlefields, filled with corpses and the detritus of war. Such passages as "All around to me seems darkness/tell me comrades [ read more ]
CD $10.43
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The fourth solo album from Slim Cessna's Auto Club's Jay Munly, Jimmy Carter Syndrome is hardly a departure from the brand of spooky alternative country common to both his cohorts and their kindred spirits in 16 Horsepower (both of whom have numerous members making cameos). With songs dotting nearly every point on the spooky spectrum of tangled backwoods eeriness, Munly drowns tales of broken spirits and violent encounters under whirling guitar reverb, foreboding cello, creepy autoharp, an [ read more ]
CD $14.23