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I Killed The Monster/21 Artists Performing The Songs Of Daniel Johnston
Format: CD Album
Catalogue Number: SECONDSHIMMY0100
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Second Shimmy
Release Date: 13 September 2010
PRICE: £5.99

I Killed The Monster/21 Artists Performing The Songs Of Daniel Johnston

Originally released in 2006 now available at mid price. Secondshimmy - legendary producer Kramers record label & marked Kramer's unmistakable prowess as one of his generation's most celebrated producers / arrangers.

“I Killed The Monster” features standout tracks and performances by some of indie music's brightest stars including Daniel Smith & Sufjan Stevens, Mike Watt, Jad Fair, Chris Harford, and Dot Allison. Kramer himself delivers one of the most startling tracks on this release, Daniel's masterpiece BLOODY RAINBOW. "Sufjan Stevens and Daniel Smith joining forces to cover Daniel Johnston? Pitchfork boner alert!!

Pitchfork Underground legend, and fellow "outsider artist", R. Stevie Moore turns in one of the weirdest, most intriguing songs I have heard in ages. Sung in a rich Country and Western croon with music by way of Angelo Badalamenti, the Residents, and Yello, "Cathy Cline" at times sounds like two records being played simultaneously.

By turns jaunty and sinister, it features the (punning) ghostly echo of the Everly Brothers' "Cathy's Clown" in its "Here she comes..." refrain, an eerie transmission from the simpler more straightforward era of early rock ï¿½n' roll.

Like many of Johnston's original recordings, it is completely and utterly unique, the work of someone divorced from all cultural fads and trends." - John Dover - PopMatters