A Bit Much

Pirate! is pleased to bring you the first in a series of singles (each with an A-side and B-side) over the course of the next year from our local friends A Bit Much. We'd tell you about them but here is what they'd tell you instead:

What can A bit Much offer your workplace, retail space, rental agency, or brothel? We pledge to our customers an obsessive pursuit of the hallmarks of enduring songcraft (deep penetration, melody, considerate construction, wordplay, and honesty) to be in no way undercut by the tenets of rock and/or roll music making (the shuffleability of feet, improvisation, theatrics, and chest-pounding raw power). Fearlessly borrowing from any genre heretofore imagined, and fearfully fleeing all things masking the mundane with the hyperbolic, A bit Much stands nearly alone in bringing to the public “the understatement of the millennium”.

Buoyed by a lyrical sense splitting the difference between Randy Newman and Anton Chekhov, singer/guitarist/ringbearer Degan (of Fetish Chicken) presents a vision of too-human humanity, characters (namely himself) lost in the centrifugal spin of one's own delusions, shouting matches that turn out to be internal monologues. Whether in the self-centered love pentangle of (All I Want Is) George Harrison's Wife, the jealous baiting and bile of Minimum Rhythm, Maximum Blues, the quiet desperation of I Don't Want to be a Housewife (for Someone Else's Family), or the thin excuses of I Can Rock Nobody Like Nobody's Been Rocked Before, life is presented as just as important and foolish as it really is, just with a better backbeat. Drumkit bludgeoner Jonathan Glancy (of Paraffin Section, Trance Cult Riot) and newly welcomed bassist Abram Taber (also of Paraffin Section, Sinbusters) form a fluid, uproarious, and discontented bed for all this lovemaking, citing the spectrum from jazz to noise-rock freely and idiosyncratically, creating what some have called “the Tithing-rod of the Gods,” sometimes tickling, sometimes flagellating.

We sincerely hope we can make a meaningful contribution to your life-ventures. Every last one of our exaggerations are guaranteed.

“You may not expect much from this track. And this track will then blow your socks off. "...George Harrison's Wife" is actually a rather elegant and nigh-breathtaking – we're gonna say it – love song. It dances on the edge of the stage, being just theatrical enough to fully entertain, yet being far too awesome for a simple novelty track.” - C.D. On Songs, Boston Band Crush

“(All I Want Is) George Harrison’s Wife” is an emphatic, elegant number that draws an aesthetic line from classic soul-rock to Great American Songbook fare, and it features singer/guitarist Degan voicing the longing of the early-’70s Slowhand for Mrs. Harrison, Pattie Boyd (and, in a pretty classy bit of overdubbing, dueting with himself)." - More Drive

""...Harrison's Wife" is a true stand out performance and is a force to be reckoned with. It comes with solos, guitar-monies, and wonderful dynamics. If you listen close you can hear the band go through every chord in the musical alphabet. Musician's, it will make you want to pull out your chord chart." A. Polk, Polk Records Information Blog

RIYL: Ben Folds, Spoon, Destroyer
TRY: #1, 2

Full Album Available Here:
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http://www.abitmuch.org
http://www.polkrecords.org
http://abitmuch.bandcamp.com
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