Seattle indie pop quartet Tullycraft have a n uncanny for crafting quirky songs filled with off-kilter hooks, with references to both the obscure as well as the mainstream - Goldie and the Gingerbreads quotes Paradise By The Dashboard Light. Their 7th album The Railway Prince Hotel is filled with upbeat, rambling garage tunes that will get many a listener spin the wrong foot. Is there something wrong with the rhythm? Well, no actually, but it's a kind of free-flowing music, jagged and lo-fi while they take the piss at pretty much anything. Think a mix of XTC, The Velvet Underground, Jonathan Richman and the Decemberists.
The Railway Prince Hotelis an album by a band who realize that they will never make it big, but word-of-moth has kept them afloat since 1995, catering to a slowly growing fan base who can appreciate the poetic beauty of songs like The Cat's Miaow In a Spacesuit: "Dark as night / apart from the dayglow / it didn’t feel just how I thought it might feel so / I stood in line and watched a cosmonaut trip over her moon boots / it started slow / just you and me and a cat nap / I think we almost always fell into the same trap / a dress rehearsal and our cravings for attention would follow".
Tullycraft:
Sean Tollefson: vocals, bass
Chris Munford: guitar, vocals
Jenny Mears: vocals, tambourine
Corianton Hale: guitar, vocals
The Railway Prince Hotel is a self-released album. Buy it (CD, digital) from their website. Vinyl on Happy Happy Birthday to Me records.
Tracks:- Midi Midinette
- Passing Observations
- We Couldn't Dance to Billy Joel
- Goldie and the Gingerbreads
- Has Your Boyfriend Lost His Flavor On The Bedpost Overnight?
- Beginners at Best
- It's Not Explained, It's Delaware
- Lost Our Friends to Heavy Metal
- Hearts at the Sound
- The Cat's Miaow In a Spacesuit
- The Railway Prince Hotel
- Vacaville