[12" LP = $10]
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12" LP (JNR17)
Release Date: 07/24/07
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Track Listing:
- Toe Tapper
- Florist Fired
- Das Boot
- Eat Me Out
- Laughing With Minx
- I Saw Your Shadow
- Apples
- Luckcharm
- Missing Man (mp3)
- Butterknife
- Pass It Along
- (I'm) Somewhere
- Not Nice
- Dropping Dimes
- Envelope
- Personality Candyspots
Five years is a long time. Five years is an excruciatingly long time for a band like Marmoset who reside in a city referred to, often derisively, as Naptown. Somehow this band has managed to bottle into one album all of the aspects and pathos that have, to date, made them the critically acclaimed band we all love. From the Swell Maps-inspired tumultuous clamor of their debut EP Hiddenforbidden, their addictive two-minute anthems on Today It's You, and the epic (for Marmoset at least) joyful dirges from Record in Red, Florist Fired has it all.
Although principal songwriter Jorma Whittaker possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of Beatles-esque melodies and is more likely to cite his musical influences from John Lennon and friends, you get the unmistakable feeling that the band owes way more to a Keith Richards-led Stones swagger, but without the budget or access to premium pharmaceuticals. In contrast to the seemingly lecherous, self-loathing gems Whittaker pens, guitarist Dave Jablonski offers his detached ethereal odes like a man truly with his head in the clouds.
CD available from Secretly Canadian.
REVIEWS
...their twisted amalgam of psychedelia, sexuality, and off-kilter melodicism remains undeniably unique. It's more than a little devious, yet strangely soothing at the same time; resistance isn't quite futile, but you know you want to give in for a few. Rating: 7.8"
— Pitchfork Media
"Marmoset has created an album of Velvet Underground-inspired pop dirges for the ADD set...dreamy, distilled noise-pop. It's a testament to the strength of Dave Jablonski and Jorma Whittaker's songwriting that no song seems disjointed or incomplete: each one is a fully realized entity, simple and direct."
— Pop Matters
"Florist Fired kicks ass... unique, weird, and equally intriguing... never bland or void of charm."
— Verbicide
"Subversively weird, eerily hypnotic, lo-fi slacker trance-thems... But where Florist ultimately sets itself apart is in its engaging drone. These 16 (mostly) sub-three-minute tracks are like an air conditioner whose quiet hum becomes an unlikely lullaby on a muggy summer night... if that air conditioner was subtly smothering you in ambiguous perversities and general oddness. And yes, that's a good thing."
— CMJ
"Proceed towards Florist Fired with caution. Though it's an album easy enough to fall in love with, Marmoset aren't the type that want or thrive on your adoration... Marmoset is the quintessential un-band of almost-pop; unprolific, unorthodox, unforgiving, underdogs unable to show affection. Their latest is a brilliant underachievement compounding equal parts dark, motley madness and bright, childlike innocence tossed off as songs half-baked or conceived from happy accidents... their infrequent romps through weeping sex ballads and quirky existentialist pop feel like sleeping with genius, if only for a night. Rating: A-"
— Stylus Magazine
"Marmoset's shambling, chugging indie-rock - a dry, droll, Midwestern take on the looser side of British post-punk and psychedelic pop - seems more in sync with the sound the style's heroes were making back in the early-to-mid '90s than with any of their late '90s or 2000s contemporaries... Marmoset's elliptical, cryptic almost-pop is out of sync with the instant-gratification nature of a lot of late-2000s indie music, but Florist Fired is worth savoring instead of downing in one big gulp. (4 out of 5)"
— All Music Guide
"This erratic collection of lo-fi art-rock is a poetically distorted vision of the past. Pop with a knife held to its throat. As if the wheels came off an early rock band, disenfranchised by the scene, Florist Fired is a sarcastic, fractured take on what would otherwise be popular melodies... Florist Fired is sixteen short tracks of wonderfully bruised pop songs from a generation ago. Marmoset pushes that pop world down in the dirt and wipes that smile of its face. Rating: 7.9"
— QRO Magazine
"the songs on Florist Fired suggest a youthful innocence befitting the new crop of fresh-faced indies making the scene nowadays... Juggling between Hey Jude-era Beatles morosity ("Luckcharm," "Not Nice"), something along the bizarre lines of Destroyer ("Florist Fired," "Apples") and the ecstatic romp of early Pixies ("Das Boot"), Florist Fired has a little bit of everything. Yet, they're just the tiniest bit inaccessible, which will make you that much cooler for having them in your record collection."
— QCLA
"Spare, surreptitious tracks suffused in a creepy and very British (Soft Boys, Syd Barrett) atmosphere. The record reaches a level of sinister, lurky perfection more expanceive and free ranging than its predecessor... Marmoset capture a mysterious, lasting unease that makes even music itself suspect."
— Skyscraper
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