One of my favorite music sites, Palebear, offers a nice little review of a recent podcast by East River Pipe. Turns out that the podcast is Merge Records’ first foray into podcasting. Each track features a quirky little prelude from East River Pipe frontman (only man?) F.M. Cornog, who seems to be a bit overly fond of gratuitious drug talk…but I guess I won’t argue if it helps him keep writing interesting songs (it also happens to be the overriding theme of the podcast, I guess). One thing that I didn’t realize: East River Pipe / Cornog doesn’t tour at all…so this does elevate the podcast to something of a novelty in terms of being able to hear the band in a non-album setting. Here’s the word directly from Merge. Or you can skip all of the critical hulabaloo and the overview from Merge and go straight to the music.
