
SPF - Paul's McCartney LP
DR 39 Now shipping Paul's McCartney by SPF Recorded in Oakland and San Francisco last year, SPF is Adam Keith (Cube, Mansion) Will Isengole, and Dave Easlick (Jackie O Motherfucker). There is something both listless and challenging about Paul’s McCartney, something of our time, and something that, in that respect, demands to be taken seriously, and made sense of. The music which follows is capricious but interesting, its themes transitory, and its coherence provided primarily by the percussion. Nevertheless its melodies, when they appear, are disarming and lovely. The harmonies, in even shorter supply, are hypnotic. At just after three minutes into the recording there is one such moment. Ex nihilo, a kind of order appears, and the music takes on for a few minutes a quality that is, well, musical. In only the first few minutes of the recording I hear: a siren, a jammed printer, church bells, the beeping of an heart rate monitor (a profoundly sad sound, if one is in possession of the r