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Mary Plum Musket

by Honey Radar

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Roughing Up the Painter 01:05
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Mason Neck 02:03
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Planes of Potpurri 00:52
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Lost and Found 01:31
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Couch Shoulder 00:58
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Mary Plum Musket 01:00

about

We've had this release on our schedule since mid 2012 and we've been putting it out as a lathe cut 7" in a sort of trickle. Now we've finally gotten around to "officially" releasing (i.e. putting it for sale somewhere other than directly from the band). In the meantime, there's been a fantastic cassette tape edition released by the fine folks at Treetop Sorbet (www.treetopsorbet.com/product/tts-009-honey-radar-mary-plum-musket). If tape strikes your fancy, head over and get a copy! If 7" lathe cut vinyl is more your speed, then grab one here. While you're listening to the stream, take a look at what some others have had to say about it below.

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"Very interesting project by Indiana songwriter Jason Henn. Not sure if it's a layered solo work or a group or what, but it's great short pop spasms owing equal debts to early New Zealand's South Island groups & Guided By Voices. Good effort."

-The Wire

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"Every so often, something comes my way that doesn't just sound good, it also sounds important. I had caught wind of this Honey Radar release through previously-of-Philly-now-of-Berlin guitar wizard Brendan Codey, who then led me to Treetop Sorbet, a tape label based out of Philadelphia. Knowing that in due time I'd be starting a blog here on Impose about music in Philadelphia, I wanted to save this little gem until that day sprang. But with naming conventions stalling me, it seemed that I couldn't put it off. So here we are, talking about Honey Radar.

This tape is 8 minutes long, and I dare say it would sound unusual if it were any longer. Each song is heavy with fuzz and tape-manipulated pitch shifting, making the guitar feel like it's practically omnipresent. It's both the headlights and the bumper sticker—it presents itself as the leader of the songs, shining over them with poppy, terse chord jumps, but since each song is so limited in length, the guitar also manages the occasional fallback. Honey Radar gets its longevity from the wide longing of Jason Henn's vocals, which feel compacted and stuffed into a plastic echoing microphone toy. The release is some elements of The Byrds, the coyness of Ray Davies, and riddled with a not overly punchy bass. The drums are compressed until they sound practically hidden. The great revelation in Honey Radar is that the internet exists exactly for this: it's unlikely that there will ever be a show, and with the diminishment of mixtape distribution among friends, how else would these time-traveled tunes hit our radar? Ironic, in some ways, that a sound so distinctly settled in the past can only stand to survive in such a modern time."

-Impose Magazine (www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/honey-radar-mary-plum-musket)

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"You can’t help but notice the Guided By Voices-meets-Byrds-meets-Velvet Underground-meets-Them lo-fi influences..."

-The Key (thekey.xpn.org/2013/06/03/honey-radar-get-mary-plum-musket-on-casette-and-digital/)

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released November 5, 2013

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