dead canaries
jon of the atom is impossible to put into any boxes. his music is consistently unpredictable, songs that waltz and bounce back and forth between your headphones, going from rolling indie rock to spaced out folk to experimental sounds of things you feel but can’t quite put into words and further. from time to time i put his albums on to fill some space in my brain – atomic music (2004), holy zombie jesus (2005), my life in groton (2006), and an “off” day for the jews harp christmas caroler (2006) – i always find something i’d never noticed before, a complicated line simply put, or a clarinet that sounds like it has broken free from the band, like radiohead playing motown, or the ghost of woody guthrie rushing for and missing his bus. i once had a dream that he was going to “atomize” my songs and i was smiling. it’s something really special when a musician can sing his way into your dreams. -s. wheelies 2007
Critical Mass: Flying Things Vs Crawling Things
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Jon of The Atom, Smally the Windmill Chaser, Chelsea Hogan, Jane Gilmore, Meghan Geiss, Aldonza Lorenzo, Linzi (Mrs Smally), Old Kinderhook, David Hurwitz, Dan Pardee & Tim Kotch are Dead Canaries
Written by: Jonathan Fink/Steven Small/Robert Levy/Brian Wilson/Tim Kotch
Album Design: Sarah Seib/Alexis Zaharis
1. Sneeking Throo Sheets
2. Moths at the Bug Zapper
3. Swallows
4. Crows Over King Street
5. Ducks Flying By
6. Lamentations of a Penguin
7. The Inanimate Intermission
8. The Spider Song
9. It’s A Crab’s Life
10. Me & You & Everyone We Know
11. Tree Sloth Finding Food
12. Crickets Chirping/Thank My Stars
13. Something For The Swimmers
14. Norman & The Dragonfly
(C) Dead Canaries, (P) Wood Productions
Thanks For Nothing, You Freak Out Prima Donna
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Track List:
1. That Other Song
2. That Song
3. The Final Song
4. This Song
All songs written and recorded by Jon Fink.
Something Else
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Track List:
1.Going For A Ride
2. The Pump Caught In My Trouser Leg
3. Something Else
4. The Shortest Hour Of The Day
5. Song For #6
6. Kim’s Unfinished Ride Home
7. Doli Lemon
8. Something
9. Nothing Else
10. Vindaloo Was Her Name
11. Don’t Mess With The Gear Box So Far From Home
12. Tim’s Banjo Story
13. The Hoborchestra’s How & When
14. Nothing
15. Who Knew
16. Black Hole
All songs written and recorded by Jon Fink.
Golden Sounds/Modern Day Carpetbagger
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These albums are the Let It Be and Abbey Road of the Dead Canaries’ catalog. One being pieced together after a soured friendship/collaboration and the other arranged, recorded and ripened over a long weekend.
Golden Sounds:
1. A Word
2. Roll A Dex
3. Sweet Cream
4. Prince Edward Island
5. Or Case Of The Missing Flashlight
6. Low Down Adela
7. Seven Bell Peppers All In A Row
8. For The Aztec Indians Who Brought Fruit Down To The Spanish And Had Their Hands Cut Off
9. Wishful Thinking
10. It Wasn’t Calm
11. Hunting Of The Bilge Rat
12. Take My Hard Work And Shove It
13. I Wander Under Rolling Waves
14. The Doop
15. 15
16. 16
Modern Day Carpetbagger:
1. Velvet Fuck
2. The Life
3. Tuileries
4. The Lobster
5. Karl Marx Lives In Lafayette Louisiana
6. Trip Of Your Tongue
7. Ukulele Song Under A Tree
8. Tweelerees Burnouts
9. Kung Fu In Frozen Foods
10. Honey Pie
11. Merry Mary Marie
12. Dirty Little Hands And Feet
All songs written and recorded by Jon Fink.