Jim Fairchild is the singer/songwriter and big cheese behind All Smiles. Previously a member of Grandaddy, Ten Readings of a Warning is his debut. Joining Fairchild are drummers Janet Weiss (Sleater Kinney, Quasi), Joe Plummer (Modest Mouse, Black Heart Procession, Magic Magicians), Danny Seim (Lack Thereof, Menomena), and Solon Bixler (Great Northern), so it's not so solo after all.
It was a no-budget affair, recording the album almost entirely created on 8-track in various living rooms up and down the West Coast. Says Jim: "It sounds like the places it was recorded in. You can hear the walls, and the floors, and the ceilings, and you can hear the cars, and the trees, and the guys selling drugs outside."
What the project lacked in monetary funds, it makes up for in sound. The grandiose without being over the top, yet intimate and personal without being uncomfortable and in-your-face.
All Smiles "Moth In A Cloud Of Smoke" (from Ten Readings Of A Warning)
+All Smiles
+Myspace
+more mp3s
+buy All Smiles from Dangerbird Records
RSS Feed
Technorati
deli.cio.us