Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
...Oregon girl
with your lips and
your curls...
SSLYBY are John Robert Cardwell (vocals) Philip Dickey (Drums) Jonathan James (bass) and Will Knauer (guitar), where their affection for the 75 year old reclusive and infamously unsober ex soviet leader comes from is anyone’s guess.
The band released their debut album, Broom, which was recorded in an attic, originally in March 2005. They posted a few MP3’s on their incredibly lo-fi website and shortly after the blogging world quickly propelled them to internet indie stardom.
“Internet fame doesn’t make sense to us,” says Philip Dickey, “I don’t think our lead singer has an e-mail address.”
Someone still loves you Boris Yeltsin claim to be the third best band on their street, not knowing who the other two are I can’t really compare, but this modesty is further apparent in their music. They cover similar ground to bands such as ‘The Shins’, with beautifully heartfelt songs delivered with a schoolboy yearning.
It comes as no real surprise after listening that in fact all the songs contained on the album were written for one particular girl – a former girlfriend of drummer/vocalist Philip Dickey. He says about the Band “We want to write songs that you know no one else can come up with – a song that really matters to one person” Judging by the amount of web attention the band are drumming up it appears to be working.
As for Boris Yeltsin himself my favourite quote is from US deputy secretary Strobe Talbot who said, during the Clinton years, that “Yeltsin was so drunk when he arrived in the airport in September 1994 that he could barely get off the plane. The same night Yeltsin was staggering around in his underpants shouting for pizza”
To find out more about SSLYBY check out their very non commercial website here
Their album ‘Broom’ gets re-released on October 24, with extra tracks. You can listen to clips from the album at the website above.
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