Perhapst

Revise Your Maps

Cat. No. JB106

$ 8.00

DETAILS

TRACKS

Side A

Birds Off A Wire
Willamette Valley Ballad
Ramble/Scramble
Revise Your Maps
Sorrow & Shame
True Sparrow

Side B

Find Me
Offering The Blues
Sill (Mt. Zero)
Thousand Words
Queen Mary
Highlife
Lightlow Nightowl

RELEASE DATE

6/25/2013

John Moen - drummer and harmony right-hand for the Decemberists, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks and Boston Spaceships, and former front man of Portland’s legendary Maroons - will be releasing his second album of gorgeously crafted pop-rock tunes Revise Your Maps under the name Perhapst on Jealous Butcher Records. Recorded and produced by Jonathan Drews, Revise Your Maps 12 songs are imbued with sweetness, sass and melancholy.

The record kicks off with Birds off a Wire, the perfect introduction to Moen’s impossibly keen melodic sense. A peerless falsetto coaxes through the verses while the choruses dissolve into saturated guitars. It’s pop music with satisfying, jangly corners, and this theme carries through Revise Your Maps. With Birds off a Wire one is reminded of The Notorious Byrd Brothers and then two songs later on Ramble/Scramble, you’re tapping along with a shuffling boogie that’s all Squeeze. The title song - perhaps the most wistful of the lot - tugs on the heart with a refrain that’s equal parts teary and hopeful. Sorrow & Shame’s chorus may take you self-deprecatingly to despair, but it somehow stomps and struts like Freddie Mercury all the while. Songs call out to a bonnie-haired beloved, broadcast from a moored ship that used to go places, stay up late to bemoan an old sadness.