Love Pas/cal: Detroit’s Belle & Sebastian?
posted by on January 22 at 13:55 PM
Pas/cal: Offering fey rays of literate pop light.
I like Belle & Sebastian, though not nearly as strongly as Christopher Frizzelle does. But I would like to thrust into your consciousness a band I think is at least as good as B&S: Pas/cal. This Detroit septet have been toiling for seven years and, despite glowing reviews from Pitchfork, they’re still way more obscure than they ought to be. Pas/cal have a new EP (their third) titled Dear Sir out on Michigan label Le Grand Magistery. It’s full of smart, baroque pop with indelible hooks, scintillating instrumentation, and some of the greatest fey male vocals ever. Check out their influences: Scott Walker, the Smiths, Left Banke, Serge Gainsbourg, Pulp, David Bowie, T. Rex, Nick Drake, Prince, Erik Satie, Robert Cacciapaglia. Impeccable taste, and it’s not empty self-aggrandizement, either.
Pas/cal’s singer/lyricist/multi-instrumentalist and drummer used to be in the ’90s psych-prog unit Asha Vida, whose As One of One and Nature’s Clumsy Hand CDs are worth scouring gemm.com or eBay for. Look for Pas/cal’s debut full-length, Citizen’s Army Uniform, later this year on Le Grand Magistery.
I totally agree! I love all 3 EPs they have released. I can't way for the full length album. Pas/Cal are great. During the holiday I discovered they have two Christmas songs on iTunes, a cover of "Last Christmas" (yep the Wham song) and cool bossanova style "Jingle Bells"
good stuff.
Why I love Segal:
consciousness
indelible
scintillating
fey
aggrandizement
Ugh...no more Belle and Sebastian or anything thing that sounds remotely like them.
Can people get some new influences? Nick Drake, David Bowie, the Smiths and Scott Walker? Snooze.
I wish people would stop name dropping Erik Satie as well....
More illiterate pop please..
More illiterate pop please..
You're soaking in it.
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