2007
Easy Mark
About This Album
Martin Brummeler's Easy Mark is a sonically muscular, rhythmically angular, and effortlessly melodic sock-to-the-gut of an album that deserves to be heard loudly...through headphones...in one sitting. A musical journeyman of sorts who rose from the ashes of various Midwest noise and indie rock ensembles like Data Cadet and All Hands, Brummeler relocated to Athens, GA in the late '90s and eventually set up his own recording studio. As a die-hard D.I.Y.'er, Brummeler is well versed in all manner of studio kung fu and brings such skills to bear on his first solo release. Notably, the album was co-produced by D.C. scenester Chad Clark at Inner Ear Studios and, perhaps not surprisingly, retains a similarly purpose-driven, hardcore punk mentality, albeit with a far-reaching often psychedelic/post-punk aesthetic. By no means a chamber pop album, Easy Mark does however evince an eclectic style in much the same way that many '80s underground bands mixed punk, noise and pyschy-pop into a kind of rock & roll fever dream. In that sense, Brummeler will certainly draw easy -- and well-deserved -- comparisons to such indeed-rock guitar band touchstones as the Flaming Lips, Dinosaur Jr., and Sonic Youth.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4,5,7 and 8)

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