Missing Numbers - No Anecdote

ARTIST.....: Missing Numbers
TITLE......: No Anecdote
LABEL......: Susstones
URL........: www.missingnumbers.com

RIP DATE...: Feb-25-2006
STORE DATE.: Feb-07-2006
GENRE......: Indie
QUALITY....: VBR  /  44.1Hz  /  Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 79,9 MB

Track Listing:

01 - The Game                                   05:27
02 - A Real Realizer                            04:20
03 - Write It On The Back Of My Hand            04:09
04 - Cheaper By The Ton                         05:37
05 - Nothing Lasts                              04:13
06 - Call It Alone                              03:08
07 - No Anecdote                                05:02
08 - My Alibi                                   05:14
09 - Lifelike                                   03:50
10 - Likelife (Infinite Reprise)                20:11

61:11 min
Release Notes:

Jimmy Peterson - vocals, guitar, piano
Johnny Crist - drums
Casey Gooby - guitar
Mike Derrick - bass
Bobby McCreedy - keyboards, trumpet

No Anecdote is the new album from the Missing Numbers. Led by
songwriter / instrumentalist Jimmy Peterson, this relatively new
Minneapolis band is already creating a sound and vibe that are
totally its own. No Anecdote is a collection of songs that are
dark but melodic, totally modern but evocative of distant and
dangerous times.

Peterson's songs traffic in disenchantment, disillusionment,
damaged dreams and threadbare silver linings. He writes a sort of
modern blues for a world where the cubicle is the new cotton mill,
where white collar sharecroppers toil for the mortgage man. Yet
the mood of the material never falls into self-pity, and there are
always twisted but maddeningly catchy pop hooks hidden in the
tracks. "The Game", "Cheaper By The Ton", and the album's title
track are all great examples of the oblique pop power that lurks
in these songs. Peterson, whose utterly unique and beautifully
world-weary singing style won him a Minnesota Music Award for
vocalist of the year, has assembled his strongest collection of
songs yet on No Anecdote.

The members of Missing Numbers are an experienced but creatively
restless lot. Several members started off in roots-oriented bands
(Peterson in Bellwether, Crist in the Dashboard Saviors, McCreedy
in the Volebeats). The agenda of Missing Numbers is something else
entirely. The sound of the band is gritty and grinding, loose-
limbed but taut at the same time. The tension and interplay
between the fragmented guitar sparring of Peterson and Gooby, the
clockwork rhythm of Crist and Derrick, and the anarchic sonic
sprinklings of McCreedy define this band's spooky and powerful
mood. Using their array of ancient guitars and archaic electronic
devices, Missing Numbers coax unearthly textures from the most
elemental sources. On "A Real Realizer" the band glides along
smoothly and menacingly, showers of sparks flying from the guitars
as the tune progresses. "Lifelike" shows The Missing Numbers at
it's most elemental and extreme simultaneously, Peterson crowing
like Howlin' Wolf unhinged over an insane but irresistible loop.
The album, produced by Ed Ackerson at Flowers Studio in
Minneapolis, brings the varied moods of this band's stormy and
subtle sound into clear and very atmospheric focus.