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DOWNLOAD: Mike Bones - What I Have Left + Brian Degraw Remix

Posted Dec 15, 2008 11:59 AM by Samuel Duke

Tags: americana, rock, indie, folk

Guitarist and songwriter Mike Strallow has played around with New York's downtown music cognoscenti for years, but it wasn't until 2007's The Sky Behind The Sea that dude actually assumed a pseudonym--taking the name Mike Bones from a childhood nickname--and put out a record of his own. A year later he's prepping his second long-player for The Social Registry, an album called A Fool For Everyone he recorded earlier this year at Brooklyn's Seaside Lounge studios with an assortment of musicians, among them fellow axeman-to-everyone-cool Matt Sweeney. "What I Have Left" is the record's first single, a song about trying to give everything you have to someone without it ever being enough (sounds like a Mickey Rourke movie). The opening steady guitar tugs and Strallow's briny voice build comfortably under some piano and violin, making lines like "So I'll deal with what I have left," sound oddly confident. The digital release of the track also features a remix from Brian Degraw of Gang Gang Dance, who throws out everything but Strallow's vocal take and then layers some frenetic IDM programming, synths that sound like kazoos, and a hell of a lot of cymbal washes underneath. It's out there and percussive and thus totally Gang Gang, so get into that next to the original below. A Fool For Everyone hits stores on February, 3, 2009.

Sounds like: TK Webb & The Visions, Gang Gang Dance, Merz

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