David Lowery has maintained a healthy career as a split musical personality. When he isn’t playing laconic country-tinged pop with his band of 25 years, Camper Van Beethoven, he’s thrashing away at his guitar as the frontman for Cracker, the rock outfit that’s releasing its 10th studio album, Sunrise In The Land Of Milk And Honey, this week. Lowery adds another line to his resume as he guest edits magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with him.
Lowery: John Morand is one of my best friends. For 19 years, I have been collaborating with him as part of a producer/engineer team. What amazes me about John is his ability to find strange bands anywhere in the world, then figure out how to make records with them. Lately, John has been spending a lot of time in Belgium and Holland. It’s not unusual for him to have more than one record at a time on the rock/pop charts over there. To me, Sukilove is one of John’s most magnificent discoveries. The band is the classic Benelux hybrid: electronic elements mixed with rock. But that misses the point. Sukilove’s melodic sense is so strange. The scales are almost North African, they hit the guitars hard and hang on to the wrong notes until they thoroughly convince you that, no, these are right notes after all. Very right notes. And in the end, John makes it all so pop, so accessible. You can’t stop listening. My favorite album by Sukilove is 2004’s You Kill Me. Check out the track “Girl On The Moon”; video after the jump.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIIu88jjoj0
