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The Floating Men Release 15th Record
10/16/2007
By: Patrick Steven Patterson
Since forming in 1990, Nashville legends The Floating Men have become one of the most
influential indie acts in the Eastern US, releasing seven critically acclaimed studio albums and
a bevy of officially authorized bootlegs. Their songs are covered by young performers all over
the country, their lyrics are discussed in college classrooms and they have inspired
innumerable songwriters, musicians and poets.
Supported by a ravenously loyal cult of road-tripping followers (self-dubbed The Floatilla),
The Floating Men continued to stretch musical boundaries on their 2002 release, A
Magnificent Man and on their 2004 release The Haunting. For these
recordings, The Floatilla became "Executive Producers" of individual tracks by paying as much
as $1,000 per team to watch The Floating Men record a new batch of character-rich
songs.
In all honesty, the first time I caught The Floating Men live, the band's lyrics and message
equally inspired, enlightened and repulsed me, leaving me equal parts dumbfounded, horny
and in search of a dictionary. The musicianship of the live act (including likely guitar prodigy
Chris Cottros) will rarely be surpassed. Don't miss the show.
The Floating Men's frontman and principal songwriter, Jeff Holmes, kindly describes the
newest collection of songs:
The album chronicles the downward spiral of relatively harmless party animals into the
porn-infested nightmares and hallucinations of full-blown drug-induced psychosis. The
music is daring, unexpected, catchy and quite awesome if I do say so myself. But few will find
the lyrics soothing or comforting. Many will find them unsettling and disturbing. A handful
may enjoy various combinations humor, dense word play and warped eroticism. Some may
even yawn and move on. I consider all of the above interpretations valid and
flattering."
Don't be the last to know. The Kool-Aid's ready.
The Floating Men - MP3s & Samples
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