Katherine Whalen's Jazz Squad [Mammoth, 1999] :(
>>130985019is this that bitch from Squirrel Nut Zipper? they were garbage enough, don't need to hear the members' attempted solo projects.
>>130985019It's Katharine with an A, not an E, you goit.
>>130985262we had a thread shitting on them a while ago. just some Gen Xer dorks who happened to like Louis Prima but never had what it took to be him.
>>130985262when you resort to doing feet pics means you have no actual musical ability
>>130985019What the fuck is his problem?
>>130985262and then the mock-50s cover art. by this point culture was dead and reduced to cannibalizing earlier eras.
>>130985437>A Neither rating means an album that will impress the casual listener at first with consistent craft or an arresting track or two. And then it won't.
>>130985418if she'd been born in the 90s she would have just cut to the chase and been an Instagram ho who played that thing.
>>130985459>what if Tom Tom Club but jazz instead of dance pop?at least Tina Weymouth didn't stoop to this level >>130985418
>>130985418HotI've never heard of this chick before but squirrel nut zippers sucks desu. that 90s swing revival was like "fat guy in guy fieri flame bowling shirt" core right next to smash mouth and mighty mighty bosstones
>>130985652Her parent band was one of a little more stature than SNZ anyway.
Hot [Mammoth, 1996]These guys don't just love old jazz, they love old jazz records and true to form they've cut everything live to a single mic. Striving for the life they hear on those old records, none of them are musically acute enough or culturally blessed enough to achieve anything more than a very clumsy imitation, which is why Katharine Whalen thinks the way to channel Betty Hutton (and Betty Boop) is by singing with her tonsils scrunched up. And if that throwaway calypso hit was by any chance purloined, then the teeth that deserve to be extruded are their own. C
>>130986057>here he actually spelled her name right
>>130985019So that's where Pitchfork got the inspiration for that Black Kids review where they just went '':-/ sorry''
>>130986057He does it again
>>130986057>And if that throwaway calypso hit was by any chance purloined, then the teeth that deserve to be extruded are their ownit was probably a stolen Xavier Cugat B-side or something but i'm not going to research his catalog to find out
>>130985822Shame how Brian Setzer made that corny shit
>>130985418*sniff sniff* what does her bunda smell like to?
>>130985019Isn’t this guy a literal cuck? Like his wife fucks other guys