Artist of the Day: Fawn and Rabbit

Earlier this year Fawn and Rabbit released one of the most surprising EP's of the year.  Alec Morgan produced one of the best releases of the year just using his voice, a guitar, a bass drum, and no recording experience.  Despite these logical limitations, The Long Trail That Leads To Nowhere ended up sounding like a well produced and well crafted blend of the often over produced and over analyzed thrashing sounds of Led Zeppelin, the delightful harmonies of the Beatles earlier works, the best moments of Bob Dylan's protest folk, and even some of the most psychedelic Pink Floyd songs.  What Morgan lacked in resources he made up for in genuineness, creativity, skill, and intelligence. Instead of trying to create an album that matched the sounds of the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Bob Dylan, Morgan found a way for those artists to match a creative sound that he had already envisioned.  His vision is all over The Long Trail That Leads To Nowhere, an EP that proves not only that this all encompassing sound can still be produced, but that it can be produced using such limited resources. Morgan's work on The Long Trail That Leads To Nowhere serves as final proof that even in the apocalyptic and technology driven days of 2012, the machines and the technology still aren't as important and as powerful as the human mind and the human creative spirit.  In that remarkable way, The Long Trail That Leads To Nowhere was not just a remarkable EP, it was a powerful statement to all of the musical world that decided to listen.  A statement that said the musician is still more important to the machine.  Considering the times, this was one of the most powerful and profound statements of the musical year.

Album Review: Fawn and Rabbit- The Long Trail That Leads To Nowhere

Rating: A

It is tough to summarize all of the great things that can happen in your bedroom: you can obviously get some much needed rest, you can read a great book or watch something compelling on television, you can mess around on your computer for hours on end, you can play that great video game, and if you are lucky you can even be "in the throngs of activity" with that special someone.  The bedroom is supposed to be a private and intimate castle, where nothing is ever produced besides the sound of laughter, argument, clicking, or maybe a moan.  In other words, if creativity exists in the bedroom it exist in the most primitive "caveman and cavewoman" sense of human beings finding a new way to jump on each other.  Besides that, a bedroom is often times not only the place where we rest our heads but it is a place where we put our creative mind to rest.  When have you ever seen someone think of something great and say "Yeah I just thought of that in my bedroom?"