About This Item
Drawing from indie rock sounds and songwriter senses, Jake Mann's music chases a haunting tune through the degraded landscapes, late-night reveries, and lost affairs of a smart small town. Arranged for quartet, the overdriven guitar and drums lay a foundation for crooning vocals, melodic basslines, and understated leads. Jake came up as a songwriter in the microcosmic scene of Davis, California, forming fuzz-pop outfit The Zim-Zims in 2002 to bring his 4-track recordings to the live stage. He worked out his compositions over 3 years of shows across California and two independent releases (s/t full-length 2003 & Go Where You Are EP 2004). After completing a solo electric EP in 2005 and relocating to San Francisco, Jake joined up with Crossbill Records and has collaborated in-studio and on the stage with Payam Bavafa (Sholi), Garrett Pierce (solo, 60-Watt Kid), Carey Lamprecht (Jackpot, Jolie Holland), Adam Aaronson (The High Speed Scene, Thrill Kill Kult), and Andy Lentz (Mad Cow String Band, Alkali Flats) to produce some big sounds in the studio and on-stage. The new full-length album, Daytime Ghost, (out July 2007 on Crossbill) charts a community's untimely and unfortunate dissolution. Echoing real and imagined transitions of the past few years, the songs dwell on departures, unfulfilled dreams, perpetual mire, heroic endings, undercover fun, and, in typical Jake fashion, some dark visions of the future we might be headed for. The fuzzed-out and lazy opener, InchSatellite in BloomingtonInch is a tribute to a talented architecturess who got away InchTake your place up in the stars, and get lost, and get lonelyInch rings as a praise to her capabilities, not an 'f-you' for deserting us. Set over an incessant chiming rythmn guitar and shifting bassline, InchDaytime GhostInch is an anthem for a party that seemingly never ends Inchspeaking loud and fast tonight, they're
