Sumack

The short-lived LA quintet Sumack hardly ever got at night well-deserved comparisons to Beck’s Mellow Gold-through-Odelay period that tended showing up in reviews of their two albums. Having said that, their mixture of choice rock and roll, folk-pop, ’70s-design new influx, hip-hop, and electronica is normally entertaining and sometimes terrific. Produced in LA in 1997, Sumack contains singer/songwriters Tag McAdam and Daniel Bernath, who also deal with electric guitar and bass respectively; vocalist/percussionist Package Pongetti; keyboardist Fishing rod Sherwood; and drummer Pete McNeal. Their initial album, LP1: THAT IS Junk Rock, arrived on the neighborhood indie Tainted Information in 1999. It had been enough to have them agreed upon to V2 Information, which released Today Listen to This in March 2000. (About one-third of LP1: THAT IS Junk Rock shows up on Now Listen to This in somewhat remixed type.) The record got fair testimonials, but didn’t offer, and V2 fell the group prior to the calendar year was out, leading to Sumack’s split up in past due 2000.