This year is definitely the year of solo / side projects … and another one fell into my lab this morning. Joey Cape, Tony Sly, Jon Snodgrass & Brian Wahlstrom have a new project called Scorpios ( related to the fact that they have all this same zodiac sign in common) and have released a 10 track album containing 10 awesome, beautiful songs, mostly acoustic.
One of the points that makes this album so incredibly beautiful is the combination of exactly those voices, that are all known through more or less famous punk bands and which couldn’t be more different. A wonderful album for a laid back evening, relaxing on the couch, drinking a glass of wine (or beer)!
For the moment the band distributes the album as a „choose yourself what you want to pay“ download through their own homepage. So everybody is free to choose the amount he wants to pay, and if you regard the fact that in my home country most albums have a minimum amount of 10 Euros (as download) whereas in the States you often get albums for 8 USD .. I really hope nobody is going to download it for just 1 Cent. It’s really worth a fair amount!
The tracklist is as follows:
- Scorpios old
- Happy Anniversary
- Lifer
- We Won’t Speak Of This Again
- Daisy Train
- Oise
- Weighing In
- Lonely Parade
- Waiting For A Spaceship
- Moonshiner