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 MP3: Winter
JNR Player 1 COVER (300 DPI, JPEG)
ONE-SHEET (PDF) | | Marmoset
Record In RedCatalog Number: jnr24
Release Date: 09/23/08 
Vinyl + MP3: $10 
Track List: - Eyes Are Looking
- Golden Cloak
- Winter
- Torn Cup, Fly Up Above
- Artmaker
- The City
- Lost Days For Ways
- Frendamine
- Summertime Is Easy
- December 4th
- The Tuesday Horn
- Sound Again
- Walking Thru The Lake
| | Originally released in 2001 on CD by Secretly Canadian, this epic and eerily-addictive album is revered as a dark pop classic of the Midwest underground. Record in Red is an album that has become a touchstone for damaged pop acolytes wanting to ferret out of one another just how twisted their fellow music lover's tastes are. It is Marmoset's finest moment and is now being released on vinyl for the very first time (with free digital download). The music of Record in Red sounds like it comes from a short, golden moment when the Seventies bled into the Eighties and from that place where melody and tone collude to seduce a truth from the darkside of the Midwestern urban experience. It is a hazy and brutal reality that evokes the strangest of nostalgias. The vocals and melodies are delicate, restrained, strange and somehow dissociative.
The final effect is nothing short of a poignantly psychotropic Velvet Underground-esque journey on a seriously heavy dosage of painkillers. Bald, minimally-structured percussion and moody vocals blend by the masterful hand of songwriter Jorma Whittaker (whose songs & vision disproportionately dominate this second full-length by the Indianapolis trio), giving the impression of being underwater - literally or chemically. Witness Marmoset's slow, syrupy, crackling sound as it builds relentlessly toward a final and impossible intensity that is known simply as Record in Red.
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"Moody Indie Pop that varies from acoustic stylings to cure like atmospherics. It sounds nothing like Rush."
Alternative Press "Sporting shit eating grins and an echo chamber that Elvis would have given up fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches for. Marmoset crisply put the DWI in DYI. With 13 tales that might be of woe. Hoosier singer Jorma Whittaker peppers the slow druggy music with nice bits of oblique cynicism, affecting an accent that probably reflects a childhood (mis)spent listening to fall records. Surprisingly you don't have to indulge to enjoy."
Spin "2001's 13-song, 33-minute exercise in Anglophilic indie Record in Red, quietly ranks among the best albums released by Secretly Canadian."
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