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Artist:	MELCHIOR UND DAS MENACE, DAN
Title:	Thankyou Very Much
Label:	S.S. RECORDS
Format:	2LP
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	SS 044LP

"The name Dan Melchior should register in the minds of anyone paying attention to 'independent' music. His collaborations with Billy Childish and Holly Golightly are well regarded; however, Dan's music doesn't stop there. Yeah, he's been pigeon-holed as a garage mook, but, really, his work comes from a lineage of Brit underground rock songwriters which starts back with Syd Barrett and Vivian Stanshall, continues through Mark E. Smith and Dan Treacy, and has been taken up by the Country Teasers' Ben Wallers and our man Dan Melchior. When Dan proposed doing a record for S.S., we jumped on it, as we've been big fans since his excellent records on In The Red Records with the Broke Review. Dan sent 40 songs and we narrowed it down to 16, making a rich double album's worth of material that rivals last year's fantastic Christmas For Crows LP -- a staple in many Best of 2008 lists. We expect Thankyou Very Much to be cited as one of 2009's best."

Artist:	MELCHIOR UND DAS MENACE, DAN
Title:	Visionary Pangs
Label:	S.S. RECORDS
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	SS 049LP

"It's been over a year since the world has heard an album's worth of fresh material from Dan Melchior und das Menace. So if you've been jonesing for some of Dan's great music, we have the cure. On Visionary Pangs, Dan presents four short songs and two long song-cycles. It's a great sequence, which allows our 'relatively modest-sized man' to delve a bit deeper in his sonic explorations and pimp a bit of his guitar skills, which are as strong as his song-writing. Since the mid-1990s, Dan has released some 30 albums and singles, and it has been a good run. However, the best of the bunch started emerging in 2007 with his Pink Scream EP and has continued with the excellent Christmas for the Crows LP and S.S. Records' Thankyou Very Much double album. We are very confident in saying that Visionary Pangs sits with the aforementioned trio as one of Dan's best to date. If it doesn't wedge into your brain that Dan is one of the best songwriters going, a member of a proud tradition of English underground tunesmiths which includes Mark E. Smith, Syd Barrett, and Dan Treacy, we don't know what will! 500 pressed."

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