Party of One (band)
Party of One was an indie rock band from Minnesota which released one full-length album, Caught the Blast, on May 27, 2003 on FatCat Records. They also released a single, "Shotgun Funeral", prior to this album,[1] as well as another single, Snap You Like a Twig, on April 20, 2004.[2] The latter single was reviewed favorably by Shoo, a reviewer for Drowned in Sound, who compared it to the music of both Pavement and Ween. He also praised the single's B-side, "Star Sky Sierra", as being even better than the single itself.[3] The band's members were lead vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Eric Fifteen (Eric Johnson), Geoff McCusick, and bassist Terrika Kleinknecht.[4] Their music has been described as containing "typically confrontational, at times charmingly naïve messages",[5] and as "punk only by historical association."[6] Many critics have also described their music as negative and depressing.[7] Julianne Shepherd has praised Fifteen's voice, which she compares to that of Sean Na Na,[8] while Citypages has written that Fifteen "...models his political discontent with the ease of an immortal psychopath in a reusable bomb vest."[9]
Discography
- Caught the Blast (2003) -- FatCat Records
Singles
- Shotgun Funeral (2003) -- FatCat Records
- Snap You Like a Twig (2004) --FTC Records
References
- ↑ "Party of One". Fat Cat Records Website. Retrieved 23 November 2013.
- ↑ "Snap You Like a Twig". Allmusic. 2004. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
- ↑ Shoo (7 March 2004). "Snap You Like A Twig". Drowned in Sound. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
- ↑ "Party of One Biography". Allmusic. Retrieved 23 November 2013.
- ↑ Molgat, Chuck (July 2003). "Party Of One Caught the Blast". Exclaim.ca. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
- ↑ CG: Party of One, Robert Christgau
- ↑ Milner, Greg (12 August 2003). "Minneapolites Visit New Belsen; See History but No Future". Village Voice. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
- ↑ Shepherd, Julianne (7 August 2003). "Party of One: Le Freak So Chic". The Portland Mercury. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
- ↑ Smith, Rod (27 August 2003). "Party of One: Caught the Blast". City Pages. Retrieved 23 April 2014.