Dolores (1997)
Odd Numbers Monday is back and this time we have a 7" from the 1997 Dolores records singles club. I didn't join said club back in '97, but I do have experience hunting down a record from it before. One of my all time favorite bands is Starmarket. They put out a 7" called Nailbox as part of this club. My actual memory of where I finally found a copy is somewhat hazy, I think it might have been on Gemm.com back when that was still a thing (I found a lot of cool records there in the earlier days of the internet). But I remember frantically trying to find a copy as I couldn't have that hole in my Starmarket collection.
This Odd Numbers 7" from the same club was substantially easier to find on Discogs, though I did also buy it twenty years after it came out. The songs themselves hold a unique distinction as ones that only appear on this 7" and didn't wind up on a full length at a later point. Based on the release date, it is easy to identify these as being from the same time period as the A Guide To Modern Living album, though you'd never know that by listening to the record.
A side "I Am One" is a slow acoustic song that seems to be borrowing from folk rockers of the past than the usual mod underpinnings that the Odd Numbers are more known for. You keep waiting for the song to kick in, but it never does. B side "Move On Up" fairs a little better as the band is plugged in at least. But again, the song doesn't really go anywhere and the tropicalia style drum accompaniment sounds kind of silly, to be honest. I'm not exactly sure what the band was thinking with this one but it's pretty unlike anything else they ever released and it's simply not very good.
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