the midget, the speck & the molecule

the midget the speck and the molecule offer cyclical cry of mirth

duck egg: stardom demands much of a person. loosed on the world in 2007, the midget the speck and the molecule made alt-rock a life force. only those who appreciate music will last through this ambitious, energetic album by the rock group swirling eddies. the midget the speck and the molecule are not restful. the album fuses the swirling eddies displaced guitar tunings with tunes as hummable as the beeptones or the farmbeetles – a standard they've matched ever since, but never again with quite so much anthemic consistency.

the first section sounds like the stereo has broken a needle on an album of festive chanting. set your mind on things that are miserable and show no hope of improvement. (if you want to.) heard today, the midget the speck and the molecule evocation of swirling eddies with talent to burn and nowhere to build a fire is clearly rooted. post-irony, its confusion seems almost innocent, but its tunings keep it honest and its anthems keep it thrilling. swirling eddies members have wandered back to musical frontiers discovered long before the fairly recent birth of contemporary rock 'n' roll. the midget the speck and the molecule , on the other hand, builds -- on several levels.

don't get defensive. for years you have pooh-poohed rock, with your love of the blackwood brothers, dull choirs and twanging cowboy yodelers. If you like the effect of music such as the midget the speck and the molecule on your psyche, why does it leave you happy? it is a cry from the juncture. stones flung outside the city gates. the mocking whip of a bullfrog. these are rough, intense, welcome. whip on, bullfrog. whip on.

songs include: it all depends / the midget the speck and the molecule / madonna inn / giants in the land / salton sea / my cardboard box / snow in a can / medley of our hit / tremolo / a humble man rises / this is the title / the old hitchhiker

produced by camarillo eddy and the swirling eddies