DENT MAY is a self-styled pop showman and ukulele player from Taylor, Mississippi. Claiming influence in the sounds of Serge Gainsbourg and Lee Hazlewood, his music has a louche, timeless quality - a tongue-in-cheek plundering of the easy listening / music hall / C&W treasure trove. Signed to Animal Collective's Paw Tracks imprint late last year, Dent's first, Rusty Santos-produced album 'The Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele' is out now, brimming with joyful paens to beautiful blondes, college stoners and gai Paris. One second his songs hint at Brazilian Tropicalia, the next a '50s barbershop quartet or an early 20th century country swing. By integrating his favorite pop music from around the world and writing about what is in front of him (his town, his friends, etc.), Dent takes the "think global, buy local" motto to heart. He may just be one of the 21st century's first sustainable pop singers.
http://www.myspace.com/dentmay

SLUSHY GUTS is a deliberate stripping back to basics, a concerted effort to write a song one could whistle and an exercise in embracing fear. At once melodic and dissonant, poetic and honest, intimate and claustrophobic, Slushy Guts is awkward pop music, naked and uncomfortable, a bundle of subtle unease and a maze of contradictions, a too long sentence, a load of heartfelt non-sense. It tried to just be happy but got confused and came out kinda sad. The recent '5 Songs Forgotten Or Mum's Obviously Punked' CDR is available now through Chaos Vs Cosmos.