Praise continues to roll in (at a leisurely pace, naturally) for Moviola’s Dead Knowledge, this time from Cleveland Scene’s Justin Farrar, who says that:

…Dead Knowledge unfolds as if Moviola intentionally set out to capture our country’s musiial experience in its entirety. There’s colonial folk, drunken Tex-Mex, field spirituals, punchy R&B, and some of the best West Coast rock since Poco dropped its Crazy Eyes LP back in ‘74.

Whoa. I mean, come on, how often do you see a Poco reference?

And I should probably mention that I just uploaded another one of the videos from the DVD that comes with the Dead Knowledge Special Edition (of which we have a mere handful of copies still remaining). “Truth & Devotion:”

Other recent blurbage for Catbird releases:

Popmatters on The Underpainting:

These modest songs’ honesty goes back to a more straightforward brand of folk-rock than we’re generally offered in the independent scene today, where things seem forever tarted up…

And Pip, from the full-album-RAR blog Old/Borrowed/New says of Jason Zumpano’s In The Co. Of Ghosts:

…it all works beautifully as a suite. Some tracks have ‘Michael Nyman played on honky-tonk piano’ feel, or maybe that’s just me.

That Nyman quote made me chuckle, but it really is appropriate.

On a simiar but different note, it’s clear to me after reading his writeup that Kevin Elliott over at World Of Wumme really *gets* In The Co. Of Ghosts.

Lastly, we’re currently just putting the final touches on 2 new short-run releases, to be out in the coming weeks. And the new edition T-shirts (not “New Edition“) should be in any day now. Although almost every one of them is already spoken for, you can probably maybe still reserve one of the surplus ones if you wanna give it a shot.