Mayday

Taking time off from his duties with Omaha's Cursive to work out his latest backroom
alt-country musings, Ted Stevens hauled his analog eight-track recorder into various living
rooms for Mayday's second album. The casual approach makes for loose performances that
shift and sway with mixed results. "Virginia" is great fun, the sound of a garage band falling
down the stairs. But this unstable sound sometimes collapses in the wake of a gr... More >