Wannabe Nobody, by Mod Hippie

Wannabe Nobody

by Mod Hippie

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1.	Saturday Show 06:39		buy track
2.	Cricket LaRue 04:09		buy track
3.	And Everyone The Fashion (So Sorry) 03:29		buy track
4.	Johnny's Gonna Die 03:30	info	buy track
5.	Lux 03:13		buy track
6.	We Leave It All Behind 03:35		buy track
7.	You Know 03:33		buy track
8.	The Special Price Keepers 06:03		buy track
9.	Whatever You Want 03:41		buy track

about

L.A. post-garage collective’s third album is
both accessible and adventurous.
On its third album Wannabee Nobody, L.A. music collective Mod
Hippie – spearheaded by singer/songwriter Doug McGuire and
including various X, Beach Boys and Standells alumni,
streamlines its thunderous garage, psychedelic and post-punk
influenced power pop into something both more accessible and
experimental than its first two albums, Tomorrow Then (2015)
and Big Wow (2017).

Featuring two six-minute suites (including the epic opening track
“Saturday Show”) and a spacey, synthed-out cover of the
Replacements’ “Johnny’s Gonna Die,” Wannabe Nobody
consolidates Mod Hippie’s trademark sprawling guitar textures
and wide soundscapes into a concise, hook-driven but off-kilter
rock vision.

Look no further than the first single, “And Everyone The Fashion
(So Sorry)” which seamlessly blends punk, garage, power pop,
surf and Middle Eastern influences into a short, sharp rant that is
as dazzling as it is direct.

The epic garage sound the band perfected on its first two albums
is back on display on “Leave It All Behind,” while “Cricket LaRue”
and “Lux” slyly morph those influences into tributes to swamp
rock and The Cramps, respectively (Cramps producer Earle
Mankey mastered the record). The sad, yearning “You Know”
calls to mind some of Paul Westerberg’s closing-time balladry,
while the gorgeous, cryptic two-part “The Special Price Keepers”
starts out psychedelic and winds up in trippy Pink Floyd/
Lindsey Buckingham territory with its gossamer layered guitars.

credits

released October 5, 2018

Doug McGuire - vocals, acoustic guitar
D.J. Bonebrake - drums
David Marks - lead guitar, Spanish guitar
Teresa Cowles - vocals, bass
Jason Berk - lead guitar, vocals
Mike Schnee - guitar, vocals
Adam Marsland - keyboards, percussion, guitalele, guitar, bass, drums, vocals

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Mod Hippie Los Angeles, California

The brainchild of singer/songwriter Doug McGuire, Mod Hippie is a hard-driving psych garage rock collective that features members of X, The Beach Boys, Standells and others.

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