Dave Graney and the MistLY - You've Been in My Mind (2015 Expanded Edition) (2015)

Tracklist

01. Blues Negative
02. Flash in the Pantz
03. Field Record Me
04. We Need a Champion
05. I Don't Wanna Know Myself
06. Cop This, Sweetly
07. Life's a Dream
08. Playin' Chicken
09. Midnight Cats
10. Mt Gambier Night
11. Mistral
12. I'm Not the Guy I Tried to Be
13. Cop This Sweetly (Demo Version)
14. We Need a Champion (Demo Version)
15. I Don't Wanna Know Myself (Demo Version)
16. Mt Gambier Night (Acoustic Remake)
17. I'm Not the Guy I Tried to Be (Acoustic Remake)

You’ve Been in My Mind is the first collection of new songs in three years from Dave Graney, his partner in life and sound Clare Moore, and their recently re-named band, The MistLY (formerly the Lurid Yellow Mist). Not that they’ve been idle though, as that span has seen a whole lot of gigs, the release of Graney’s first book - acclaimed memoir 1001 Australian Nights - as well as a compilation of re-recordings of classic Graney compositions, Rock ‘N’ Roll is Where I Hide.
The lyrical puns still abound but otherwise there’s less novelty on show here than in the past: the Lounge-Lizard-King-of-Pop-Dave-Graney who won ARIAs and charmed the masses in the 1990s, with a theatrical persona like some louche amalgam of Don Lane, Terry Southern and ‘Coney Island Baby’-era Lou Reed, is largely absent. Graney now more comfortably resembles a road-seasoned jazzman, exuding the philosophical gravitas and dark humour of hard-won wisdom. Jazz sensibilities have influenced this new music too, particularly the “blazing left-handed Rickenbacker” lines of lead guitarist Stuart Perera, with structures and chords that shift and twine but not at the expense of melody or focus. According to 1001 Australian Nights, Graney and Moore first met Perera when he was a young student “into jazz players, theory, octaving and Guns N’ Roses”, and the resonances of such remain apparent, fused with the band’s ongoing interests in ’70s West Coast rock and art pop experimentation.

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