miracle whips

​Miracle Whips (from the album The Art of Facts available on DevilDuck Records)
Sadness is in the air. The music of Miracle Whips on The Art of Facts (their latest release) supports the melancholy, adding somber tones to tales of legendary low points in “Captain Fuckpants” as the album trudges along life’s path from childhood forward with “Small and Good” walking under dark orchestral clouds. Miracle Whips scatter haunted piano notes that skip around the exit wishes of “Still Not Souled” and use the firm structure of instrumentation to corral the dreamy Americana reveries and lonely trumpet calls of “The Stockade”. The Art of Facts opens its song cycle with a part spoken/part sung reading over the revolving rhythms in “Book of Matches” while a lumbering heart beats to lead the funereal western ghosts over the melodies of “Go with Gone”.  
A trio of Portland, Oregon musicians, Jason Merritt (Whip, Timesbold), Paul Dillon (Miracle Falls, Sparklehorse, Mercury Rev), and Jeff Mercel, (Mercury Rev, Ultraam, Grand Mal) are the blend that makes Miracle Whips. The band’s bio is as stripped-down bare bones as the sound of The Art of Facts, Miracle Whips offering a resume as ‘we write songs on the porch like in the old days, also we are old...’. Mortality shuffles and shrugs, swaying to “5 in Gold” as an electric guitar utters a whispery growl and a story stumbles out of the shakey voice telling the tale of “Blue Guitar” while The Art of Facts spits out the words and kicks at the music to welcome “Stupid Bird”.
Listen and buy the music of Miracle Whips from AMAZON
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