Appetizers & Leftovers
(I Eat Records)
This is a very promising 21-track introduction to I Eat Records, a local label specializing in eclectic, folk-flavored indie-pop from locals like Fluffers Union, Okkervil River, and the Glass Family. The Orange Mothers’ graying-templed anthem “Kids (Don’t Know)” shares pick-hit status along with the Handsome Charlies’ horn-infused barroom rambler “Makes Me Love You.” Solo Mother Ethan Azarian scores with the haunting “Mexico,” and his folk legend father Tom Banjo does the same with “Leatherwing Bat.”
This article appears in November 4 • 2005.
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Greg Beets was born in Lubbock on the day Richard Nixon was elected president. He has covered music for the Chronicle since 1992, writing about everyone from Roky Erickson to Yanni. Beets has also written for Billboard,Uncut, Blurt, Elmore, and Pop Culture Press. Before his digestive tract cried uncle, he co-published Hey! Hey! Buffet!, an award-winning fanzine about all-you-can-eat buffets.
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