Hush Records Chad Crouch revealed as Podington Bear
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
I am not sure I enjoy a mystery revealed. Here’s the story - “Anonymous musician Podington Bear made his musical den on the internet in the beginning of 2007, announcing he intended to write, record and release three songs a week, via podcast and blog. 156 songs total. During this campaign Podington Bear was spotlighted several times on National Public Radio and Wired.com, profiled on numerous blogs, selected as a “Best New Podcast of 2007″ by iTunes Music Store editors, and more recently over a dozen of his tracks could be heard sprinkled across the second season of This American Life on Showtime. On June 24th, a little later than first planned, he released song #156, entitled “Graduation”. Also on that day, Portland label HUSH Records issued a 10 CD box set collecting these songs, as well as the tenth CD as a standalone, entitled simply The End.”
Then it was revealed that Podington is Chad Crouch. Have a listen to ‘Proof’….oh the irony.
Rearrangerologyistics is the anomalous musical pop of Jordan Blum, an ecstatic revelation, an exalting singular upbeat and revealing half hour of music, where instruments weave in and out of falsetto vocals acting as golden anchors. All told, the album is the most complete work to date for Dykeritz, the latest in a line of 14 albums beginning at the age of 13. Bordering on jubilant, teetering on bizarre, the album is an aurally sprawling experimental pop masterpiece with moments sometimes akin to the instrumentation of the Zombies, the vocals of the Bee Gees, and the arrangements of Animal Collective.
“Look At My Hands, Look At My Knees”
