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Mudville, soothe my soul and shake up my bones

I love this band. I've been flying with them under the mainstream radar since I discovered their 2003 EP. Mudville delivers a sensory feast that at once lends an air of chill-out smoove while it also deeply rouses - sometimes in the space of a phrase! Marilyn Carino and Benny Cha Cha Rubin are mighty clever ducks - smart as hell without being smartalecky and ultrahip, somehow without any air at all of hipster holier than thouness. "Eternity" mixes tablas and guitars with intense electronics, "Joy" uses an orchestra and electronic keyboards with a kind of retro/disco beat, and "Wicked" (my personal favorite) mashes up tick-tock percussion, melancholy, hollowed-out ambient whooshes and bestial horns. "The Spanish Gypsy" should be the soundtrack to a movie called, "The Most Blissful Day of My Life". The all-encompassing seduction of Marilyn Carino's vocal stylings ties it all up into something like a perfect, exotic fruit, rarely encountered. Mudville is intense music. It’s dense and beautiful. I can appreciate it when actively listening (the better to appreciate Ms. Carino's wonderful, acute prose) or as the soundtrack to an evening of doing anything but. And I'm happy to say that Mudville's charming balancing act gets more pleasing with each recording they offer. I still love "The Glory of Man is Not in Vogue" from 2005 ("Surfer Girls" is a gorgeous slice of sonic passion), and of course the EP. But Iris Nova would be a good introduction to this woefully underknown partnership.

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Seen them live at the Rockwood and the Blue Note, grooved to their last album (The Glory of Man Is Not In Vogue), have been waiting for the new album for a minute, and it's been well worth the wait. Marilyn Carino's voice will linger in your inner ear for days. Ben Rubin's production is rich, soulful, and endlessly re-listenable. I'll be playing this album for some time to come. Standout tracks: This Hollywood Life, Duke.

Another gem from a band who's time has come

Mudville consistently makes remarkable, striking music. This collection of songs just FEELS great and really satisfies from beginning to end. Its layered production by the always-interesting Benny Cha Cha really highlights Marilyn Carino's stunning vocals to best effect. Her singing, especially on the melancholy "Wicked" is positively chill-inducing, a soulful creak that meets Billie Holiday with Annie Lennox. Love how the weird Martian instrument sounds combine with the strange lyric pictures of "This Hollywood Life" and the dry hump bump of “Spirits in the Material World”

Biography

Formed: 2000 in Brooklyn, NY

Genre: Electronic

Years Active: '00s

A duo from New York City via San Francisco, Mudville work primarily in the Portishead tradition, mixing downtempo electronic beats with vintage soul and jazz influences underneath alternately languid and powerful female vocals. Mudville are producer, bassist, and keyboardist Ben Rubin and singer and lyricist Marilyn Carino; native New Yorkers who first met while working in San Francisco in the early '90s (Carino with former Rain Parade leader Matt Piucci, Rubin as a bassist with various local jazz...
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