MARYSHELLEYOVERDRIVE
Label: Milled Pavement Records
Catalog#: MP007
At age 28, BRZOWSKI is laying his heart and mind open w/ all the desperation and explosive energy of a nervous breakdown coupled with a mid-life crisis. The Portland, ME by-way-of Providence,RI emcee kicked around the Massachusetts and Rhode Island music scenes in varying projects since 1993, before taking a permanent vacation to the northeast tundra, where long winters and unsuspecting audiences could better nurture his creative spirits / personal demons. Joining forces with producer/technophile-at-large AGENT8 and a revolving cast of disc-jockeys in the studio and on stage, he has been steadily amassing a sizable groundswell of indie hip-hop true believers who clamor for something more artfully substantial than the mainstream stranglehold can spoon-feed them. After self-releasing the efforts "New England Gothic" and "Perpetual Winter", whose hand-to hand sales reached several thousand, the workaholic MC set his sight on releasing a proper full-length album on the seminal indie label Milled Pavement.
"MaryShelleyOverdrive" is a dense and demanding solidification of the dark thematic elements set forth on 2002’s "New England Gothic";"…like Robert Frost contemplating suicide in a cabin in the woods…"The Portland Phoenix, June 2003. The album contains many truly atypical aspects: lengthy songs, techno/industrial influenced beats, literary and visual culture references, a touch of the defiance of early 90’s punk rock, and a dark cloud behind every silver lining. Adding variance to an already potent mixture, Dj Mayonnaise (Anticon), K-the-I???(Mush Records), Astronutalis (Fighting Records), and nomar slevik (Siq Records) all make musical or vocal contributions.
01. Height & Weight
02. Searchlights
03. The Movement
(feat. K-the-I??? & nomar slevik)
04. Maryshelleyoverdrive
05. Settling For Less
06. Novella (feat. Dj Mayonnaise)
07. Longday
08. Pondscum (feat. Dj Mayonnaise)
09. Roll My Bones
(feat. Astronautalis & K-the-I???)
10. The Bells
11. Back To Life
12. Staircase Song
13. Cold White Flesh
14. The Hunger
15. Permafrost
16. Paxxxil Axxxident
17. Talking To Myself
All songs written by: Brzowski.
All songs produced by: Agent8, except #8 by: Dj Mayonnaise.
Mixed and mastered by: Agent8.
Graphic design and layout by: Mount Sinai Design.
Photography by: Just the Girl Next Door Photography.
