This could fall as well under the re-discovery category as this band has been already around 1998 under the almost non-Googleable name Market. That was when MP3 was new and everybody was drooling about the fact that high-quality music can be delivered over the Internet. There was a site mp3.com, which had a brilliant idea: offering musicians a platform to offer some MP3s tracks for free to get exposure without a label. The music industry quickly saw the danger of this, bought the site and converted it to one of the useless click-here-to-buy-music aggregation sites. But that's a different story.
Anyway, I did a few downloads from mp3.com, six tracks from Market among them. They delivered a the quintessential New York feeling to me: a hot summer night, an elegant lounge, fancy people and an eclectic band playing trip-hop sound. When we moved to the city, 3 years later, I still loved to listen to those tracks and finally understand more and more of the references in the lyrics, such as M6 being a bus line in Manhattan.
Another 8 years later, it is a hot summer night (the first one this year), there is an elegant lounge (the White Rabbit on Houston) and Market's key members, renamed as Masolit, are playing live. We don't say trip-hop anymore these days and Masolit has updated their sound by removing the scratching and adding a guitar line. But Margaret Jameson's voice is still riveting and the feeling transported remains very much same.
Recommended for:
Hot summer nights
My Favorite songs on this album:
It's only an EP, but so far it's NSA.
Reminds me of:
A bit of Portishead
Website:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=94702321886
Unknown
My iTunes Rating
4 star
Album Release date:
July 16th, 2009
Where I saw them live:
White Rabbit
