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The Flea Market Poets are an eclectic American rock band with
roots in Austin (TX) and Baltimore (MD).
The band consists of Jason Serious on lead vocals, guitar and keyboards,
Christian Chapman on drums, Michael Behnke on bass, Brian Reno on guitars and
synths, Grainne McMenamin on backing vocals and Dylan Masells on guitars, bass
and percussion. The Poets play a melodic
brand of rock occasionally crossing over into Punk and Americana. Think: Radiohead jamming with Wilco down the
pub, Eddie Vedder bumping into Beck at the corner store, the Ramones in a
knitting circle with Neil Young (he does knit, we are assured). Known for versatility and intuitive
songwriting, the band can capture and engage diverse audiences, in rock clubs
and festivals as well as in more intimate unplugged settings.
In 2007 the band caught the attention of Brit Award winning
producer Pete Briquette (Bob Geldof, the Frames, Tricky) who then went on to
produce their first single “Captain Nate” which is continually growing in popularity
on iTunes. Briquette in turn introduced
Bob Geldof to the Poets and their music and he is now regarded as one of the
band’s most high-profile fans.
After a successful mini-tour of German cities in 2008,
culminating in their very well received performance at the Tollwood Summer
Festival in Munich, the band went back into the studio to finish their debut
album Dirty Days. The album will be distributed in Europe by Rough Trade and will be
available in stores and online from March, 2009.
Serious Songwriting
Dirty Days
is an
album of 10 truly original songs, each with its own unique texture: Dirty
Days is not one of those all-songs-sound-the-same records. With each track, Serious and the Poets take
the listener through a different musical and emotional world while keeping the
tunes accessible with strong melodies and intelligent (and comprehensible!)
lyrics. The album kicks off with “Annie
Superstar” - the closest the Poets get to a love song - which pays tribute to the composer’s
favorite film Buffalo 66 (Annie
Superstar played by Christina Ricci), its blend of acoustic guitar and
Atari-style synths aptly befitting the innocence of young lovers. The eerie “Personal Sun” is a full frontal
assault on George Bush’s America, weaving the spookiest of
backwater blues riffs onto biting protest lyrics that would make Bob Dylan
proud. “Dirty Days”, the album’s title
track, has an altogether different feel, closer to the Anglo-Saxon style of
stadium rock purveyed by the likes Radiohead and ColdPlay. Resisting the usual pressures to conform to genre
and to mimic the fashionable sound, the Poets have produced an album that is hard
to label, but at the same time instantly familiar and appealing, suggesting the
unlikely return of an endangered species: original pop music.
“Awesome music! Sentimental and beautiful” – Tanja Prade,
Cool & Fresh
“I like it” - Bob Geldof
Check us out on www.myspace.com/fleamarketpoets