Michael Barret, AKA Secret Message Machine, one of Greensboro, NC's best kept secrets, has just finished a new album entitled ORPHANVILLE.
It is a 10 song collection of shambly, hi/lo-fi weird pop gems. As I wrote in an earlier post, Michael has a knack for recording brilliant noise collages that compliment his undeniable pop sensibilities.
On this collection he goes deeper into his crowded psyche, and stops at nothing to make music that has a stronger sense of composition than his previous work. It's music that you can tell he enjoys making. The songs are full of playfully dense sound collages, shimmers of effects pedal choruses, complex drum patterns, and long-since-tuned piano lines.
One of my personal favs is the classic Wilson Street, a poppy little ditty which describes in a fairy tale-esque manner the "famous" street that he, along with a roving band of Greensboro pranksters (the Blank Blank kids), spent many a night improvising out of tune music, reading the long forgotten love letters of previous tenants in the dank and mysterious attic, building forts, and doing "chub cheers". (guess you had to have been there)
If you are a fan of hidden gems, check this album out. It drops Sept 1 on CD, Vinyl, and on itunes and amazon.
Michael has posted it for streaming. And I will do the same right...here:
Orphanville by barrettmr
For more info on Secret message Machine, and other Greensboro goodness, past and present, go to:
http://secretmessagemachine.com/
http://www.subjectivecollective.com/
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