Swinging Singles Club MN

  We continue...   2001 - City of Flakes    The opener "Concentration" is a killer track. This is not a sophomore slump kind of record. But we never got the chance to hear a next record. Dander soldiered on until around 2007, but never managed to get another record out. They did appear on a local music show, TC Muzique in 2006 with probably some of the most annoying and punchable presenters ever to appear on camera. They're running on about half strength there without an actual audience, but you can hear a few songs that might have made it on a third record as well as the standards of their set. Fast forward through the talking. You'll thank me later. This album just oozes an extreme concentrated sense of frustration. It's wound pretty tight. It's almost uncomfortable, but that gives it an edge that few other things I can think of manage. I'm pretty sure the biggest time I spent with this album was a winter while I was back in school in my 40s. It made pe...

  The wonder of working in an ICU during a fucking deadly pandemic is that you spend an awful lot of time paying close attention to how you feel. You sneeze or cough and immediately you're thinking about where can you get tested and mentally making out your Last Will and Testament. It's fun. I mean, I'm careful as I can be and wear all my PPE at work and a mask, avoid humanity and don't touch my face otherwise, but it's always there at the back of your mind when you're being slammed with extra sick patients in the ICU. We're all going to get PTSD.... 1999 - Titty Bar Mitzvah Dander.  So yeah. The title here is a joke. The cover is a joke. It's the sort of thing that probably was really hilarious at like three in the morning when you're really tired and punchy. It makes it seem like the album enclosed is some kind of morning zoo comedy record. At least that's what I thought it was when I first started coming across it in the Cheapos bins. But it...