Brit Albion
Tally Ho's "house band," Brit Albion is a meld of many different projects and ideas, from twee pop posturing to alt-country introspection. Their inaugural release, Weak Guitar, is available now. Take a look back at the ambitious 2007 project that released a new e.p. every month.
October 2009 (I Advance Masked)
It’s Brit Albion's favorite month/holiday and to celebrate he’s not only written an appropriately themed title track, I Advance Masked, for October’s single, but pulled an obscure Sparrowfall track about a wife encountering the ghost of her war-dead husband and of course…and song by the Misfits. In fact, as a Halloween gift he’s recorded an additional all-Misfits covers e.p., Wish I was a Misfit, and somewhere on the page there’s yet another hidden bonus track. It’s spooky fun…though maybe not for the entire family.
I Advance Masked
Bonus Halloween E.P.
September 2009 (A Love Supreme)
September’s single is more inspiration from muted Disney teen TV, though the Coletrane reference adds a bit more credibility to that questionable admission. And the tune itself is a fun, bouncy track sure to get your Smiths-fix satisfied. The tracks are rounded out by Brit’s take on a Flurries number from 2007 and a Tim Hardin staple that you’re all bound to enjoy.
This month’s single is a mellow affair about a man done wrong along the Florida panhandle. Brit claims it’s purely fiction since he doesn’t remember squat about 1975, but there’s no proof either way that this didn’t happen. The covers are an obscure, latter day tune by Everything’s Gone Green, and if you don’t know who originally sang the other, then I’m sorry.
The first single in Brit Albion’s new project is Pearl, which is a Biblical reference as you’ll learn from the song. Yet another relationship song (of which he is so infamous for), the inspiration came from strumming chords on the guitar while watching an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond on mute. The two b-sides are covers (which will be the pattern for this project), Rebecca, an old Heroes and Villains (alumni of Tally Ho) favorite and The Sun and the Rainfall from Depeche Mode’s second album all the way back in 1982.