LMNOP

LMNOP is Stephen Fievet, an Atlanta local whose deceptively special vocal design and fondness for near-bubblegum melodies partially hides approximately probably the most twisted, perverse love of life in rock and roll & roll background. Together with his musical actions, Fievet publishes the intentionally unpleasant comic Babysue, styles handbill-sized posters (his “lacking dog mind” poster became a feeling in Internet circles within the middle-’90s, and even though this bizarre deadpan joke in regards to a poodle called Ling-Ling was ultimately traced back again to Fievet, it still moves the internet among individuals who believe it’s actual), and writes nakedly autobiographical, painfully romantic poetry and prose that could or may possibly not be one huge deadpan joke. You can’t really inform, and Fievet loves it this way. LMNOP 1st strike the pop underground with three self-released cassettes, 1982’s LMNOP, 1984’s LMNOP LMNOP, and 1985’s LMNO3. Fievet’s most available function, these tapes are ultra-catchy pop with smart lyrics, hooks aplenty, and Fievet’s most deceptively innocent vocals. Fievet re-recorded some songs from these three tapes for his 1st two vinyl fabric albums, 1986’s Elemen Opee Elpee and 1987’s Pony, which appear to be a mix between R. Stevie Moore as well as the Three O’Clock. LMNOP’s darker and much more “hard” period began with 1989’s Numbles; upon this recording, the arrangements certainly are a little more stripped straight down and Fievet begins examining even more unsettling feelings in his frequently depressed-sounding lyrics. Pony and Numbles had been released from the French label New Rose, however when that label proceeded to go under, Fievet came back to his cassette-only origins, liberating 1993’s Mnemonic, that is essentially Numbles Component Two, and 1994’s The Tiny Cupcake Problem, a retrospective disk comprising 24 live single acoustic shows of tunes from all of the preceding LMNOP produces. Fievet released two full-length CDs within the middle-’90s. 1995’s 30-monitor Camera-Sized Life is definitely a lot more lyrically despairing than Numbles or Mnemonic, as well as the tunes are progressively even more stripped down and delicate, frequently dispensing with drums and bass completely. 1996’s Pound provides another ten tunes — hardly over 25 % from the 40 tunes break the two-minute tag — and pieces straight down the instrumentation even more, as well as the lyrical content material has mainly mutated from your depressive in to the downright unusual, with an extremely hostile and alienated lyrical firmness made a lot more troubling by the actual fact that Fievet’s performing style is really as sugary and cuddly as ever. Since those two mammoth efforts, Fievet has apparently place LMNOP on keep, putting the majority of his period into his comic reserve and an internet record review site. He provides, however, embraced the house digital trend by reissuing most of his early LP and cassette produces on CD-Rs, obtainable through his website.