{"product_id":"number-of-small-things-a-collection-of-morr-music-singles","title":"Number of Small Things: A Collection of Morr Music Singles","description":"Collecting a variety of singles that appeared on the Morr-affiliated label of the same name, A Number of Small Things makes for a mixed but overall quite enjoyable collection of songs very much in the Morr vein -- sweet, wistful, often electronic-friendly, and not a little derived from general indie pop and shoegaze aesthetics. Cover versions turn up throughout the collection -- Seavault, a collaboration between isan's Antony Ryan and Slowdive veteran Simon Scott, offer up a few, including Ultra Vivid Scene's \"Mercy Seat\" (given a sweetly majestic take not far removed from the original) and the Undertones' \"Teenage Kicks\" -- isan themselves offer up interpretations of Erik Satie's famous Gymnopedie sequence -- while Masha Qrella has her way with a quietly chugging take on Bryan Ferry's \"Don't Stop the Dance.\" Elsewhere, the duo of Markus Acher and Valerie Trebeljahr -- wittily titled John Yoko -- do a version of Smog's \"Morning Paper\" that in its grace and charm outdoes the original. Various songs are straight-up sparkling and winsome guitar pop of the kind that eventually gave \"twee\" a fairly bad name -- nothing against the work of acts like Butcher the Bar per se; it's just that they bring nothing new to the field. More energetic efforts come courtesy of Electric President, whose \"I'm Not the Lonely Son (I'm the Ghost)\" benefits from a crackling shuffle of a rhythm, and B. Fleischman's exquisite electronic construction \"Broken Monitors,\" which somehow manages to call to mind both OMD at their most experimental and Simple Minds at their most instrumentally precise, a triumph that never shouts out loud. Meanwhile, Populous' \"Blood Red Bird\" does the remarkable in sounding like later-period piano-driven Cocteau Twins musically while not trying to sound like them at all vocally -- points for credit there alone, frankly. ~ Ned Raggett","brand":"MovieMars","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47724748800287,"sku":"880918007922","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/7833\/0399\/files\/f7d9455ba59100e33d5d422a85c22918.jpg?v=1778498789","url":"https:\/\/www.moviemars.com\/products\/number-of-small-things-a-collection-of-morr-music-singles","provider":"MovieMars","version":"1.0","type":"link"}