The last release from The Charming Fixtures was a little bit of a disappointment. After years of rumors about the epic double concept album that would some day be released, we got a small selection of mostly previously released (via bootleg) material on an EP called "Moon Base Outpost 300."This was a lackluster follow up to The Charming Fixtures' original burst onto the scene with the insane (and genius) concept album "Claw Foot Bath Tub" about an alternate universe in which Rod Serling became an interior decorator to the stars, including both George Reeves and Adam West with Bettie Page making an appearance as a pizza delivery girl.
Now The Charming Fixtures have bounced back with an amazing new album that will forever change the face of music, a "concept love story" sonically evoking the pain, nostalgia and excitement of young love. The first Charming Fixtures album recalled "Pet Sounds" with the sheer amount of musicians on the record who weren't actually in the band. This new album evokes "Pet Sounds" in every other way possible.
Accomplished actor, art department assistant, cinematographer, boom operator and author Ryan Gorman guests on most vocals and almost every instrument, with the exception of drums. Drums by The Charming Fixtures.
The track listing is as follows:
Your Love is like playing Spit with a New Deck on a Hardwood Floor
a concept love story by The Charming Fixtures
Side A
1.) Song for the girl who kept a secret from herself part I
2.) Your hair gets in my kiss
3.) The ending writes itself
4.) You're the only one like you I think I've ever met
5.) Maybe I'm your mistake
6.) Like scrambled cable porn at 2:00 am
7.) Your love is like playing spit with a new deck on a hardwood floor
Side B
1.) It's not what my neighbors can hear
2.) Portland is holding onto fall
3.) Rain falls like plucks on a harp
4.) Play in someone else's yard
5.) You (thousands of miles from anything you call home)
6.) Song for the girl who kept a secret from herself part II
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