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Unsupervised
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They Might Be Giants member John Flansburgh is a bit less smart-alecky than usual on this side-project, but other than that it isn't a huge departure from his usual approach. Unsupervised is an enjoyably scattershot hodgepodge of styles, encompassing a biker instrumental ("Guitar Was the Case"), space-pop esoterica ("Distant Antenna"), loping balladry ("So Long, Mockingbird"), reckless novelty ("Careless Santa") and reconfigured glam ("Hello Hello"), plus tongue-in-cheek tributes to Boston Red Sox pitcher Bill Lee ("What Bothers the Spaceman" and a dead president ("Nixon's the One"). Flansburgh also demonstrates his song-plugging savvy by putting a power-pop spin on Amy Rigby's torch-country classic-to-be "Don't Break the Heart." --Scott Schinder
From the Label
"First, I want to thank you for checking out this new recording by the band Mono Puff. Some of these songs were originally recorded for EP's released on the Hello CD of the Month Club. We also recorded a few covers that we thought were interesting and relatively unheard. When we embarked on the album project, our goal (and budget) was to record as spontaneously as possible. The process was very much in the spirit of album-making in the seventies, where a band plays together and key overdubs... read more