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Sunday At The Mintons
“Like John Maus and Marc Nguyen Tan had a cup of tea and some scones together.”
Is the title track to The Knife’s Silent Shout pretty much everything you have heard from them? Are you among the ones who still think “Heartbeats” is a song by José González? In either case, you are somehow a stranger to one of their most Yerba buena works “Rock Classics”. The French laid-back weekly routine from the perspective of a spoiled first-world-country woman and of course the haunting hidden man-lung of Karin Dreijer Andersson (the one she fearlessly uses on “We Share Our Mother’s Health”). It’s hard to ignore the twee-pop bliss of the song.
And that was basically the first thing that tickled memory lane when I came upon the fourth track of Sunday At The Mintons debut EP. Except here, the drive suddenly shifts towards a hypnagogic forest. The modern comfort is immediately replaced by an oscillator swinging between a nightmarish post-disco to latter-day Death In Vegas. A remote Dirty Beaches suspense to “Waiting For Nettie” nuances it from the other three tracks and makes it our pick for tonight.
This Sunday At The Mintons EP is the seventh release from Fjellsmug Rekords, a small but promising young label from Köln, Germany now being monitored by our ghost radar.
