Bran Flakes I Have Hands CD

The Bran Flakes lo-fi approach to recording is consciously arty, with a lack of slickness and pretension that makes it endearing. Almost all of the sounds on I HAVE HANDS are samples from various obscure and not so obscure CDs and LPs including instructional records, marching band albums, country records, sound effects records, kid's records, and pop, rock, and dance music albums of all kinds. As you flip between the album's 30 tracks various notes and melodies, some familiar and some just plain odd, jump out at you; singing dogs barking out "Jingle Bells", bits of Lawrence Welk, Mister Rogers, and Van Halen. It's kind of like listening into a mix tape made by a kid with severe ADD. The only track that comes close to an actual song is "Stumble Out of Bed", which is build around a sample of Dolly Parton's hit "9 to 5". It's overlaid with the guitar hook from Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger" and a snippet of an old Osmond's record.

Bran Flakes: Otis Fodder, Mildred Pitt (sampler).