I initially wrote about Bart Davenport (here) because he didn’t fit into any of the convenient genres and thus didn’t seem to receive his fair share of press. His style hasn’t changed much since that first post and he’s still on SF’s Antenna Farm Records. What has changed in the four years since that post is the arrival of Flight Of the Conchords. Their send-ups of 60’s lounge soul, while extremely funny, also points to the staying power of a genre that favors smooth sounds over clattering guitars and hummable vocals instead of noisy screaming.
Bart’s new record is called Palaces and comes out on Sept 9. Here’s two tracks (check out the bossa nova of “Jon Jon”) from it, plus the video for “A Young One” (which could be an outtake from Flight Of The Conchords).
“A Young One”