The debut album from New York folksters Rob Corradetti and Kaia Wong. On break from the touring frenzy of their psychedelic pop band, Mixel Pixel, the two got together in the Summer of 2004 to record this album on an 8-track in Rob's basement in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. The songs on July 5th, 1961 ping-pong back and forth between straight folk and more experimental folk styles with layers of guitar, violin, Moog, omnichord, ukulele and dueling boy/girl vocals. Songs such as "They Know What To Do" and "The Diamonds in Your Eyes" hearken back to an eerie American mysticism that can be found in the poetry of Theodore Roethke or the paintings of Edward Hopper. Songs like "Little Punk" and "Money Money We Want Yours" are more like Kerouac hanging out with The Carpenters.