One of my favorite albums of the last ten years, and one of the hardest to get hold of, is now available to the world on iTunes and CDBaby.
CDBaby sums it up like this: “Melodic folk rock warmly visited by acoustic instruments like cello, violin, trombone and upright bass featuring layered songs that play like stories in a redemption record that is meant to be listened to as a whole.”
People You Meet are a crazy group of characters with a hybrid alternative-rock sound that should catch the attention of fans of Sufjan Stevens, Arcade Fire, Andrew Bird, Talking Heads, and U2.
Nathan Partain’s lyrics are sometimes clever, sometimes cryptic, sometimes poetic, and often profound.
This is a homemade project that resonates with promise of greater things to come. Life has taken the band in different directions, but Nathan Partain continue to write great songs and his story isn’t over yet. So don’t miss out on this chance to hear one of the great undiscovered records in recent years, and let the Partains know just how much you want to hear more!
Recommended tracks: “Solar,” “Dishes and Cups,” “Motor Home”
OH! I finally get it. People You Meet is a band! Every time I’ve looked at your profile, I thought you literally meant people you meet, like the artists and musicians we all run across in the course of our lives.
D’oh!
The music was really great on iTunes, though the iTunes store lists the artist as “Nathan Partain”. Is people you meet an artist name or an album name?
Wow. Thanks for that. I downloaded a few free mp3s from the band’s web site, loved them, then never bought the album. Then I heard they broke up.
I’m not sure I’d consider Liberty Valance a straightforward contrast to Flags in the context that you use it here: its attitude on “printing the legend” always struck me as being pretty similar to the nuanced view you ascribe to Flags here, rather than the “Horror of Horrors! Authority Figures Lie!” interpretation popular with film buffs of the baby boomer generation. All the President’s Men or Parallax View it is not.
But that’s a minor nit, and overall, I enjoyed reading this.