Ken Stringfellow - This Sounds Like Goodbye

Artist: Ken Stringfellow Title: This Sounds Like Goodbye Catalog#: AHA!004 Price: $10.00	Tracks on this CD:
	Here's To The Future
	Trans Potato
	Your Love Won't Be Denied
	A Short Drum Break
	Any Sign At All
	Bi-Son
	Too True
	Anxiety Ryder
	Unfortunate Threnody
	Take Care

other releases by Ken Stringfellow

Ken Stringfellow wrote songs, played guitar, and sang with one of the best/underrated pop bands of the '90s, the Posies. The first solo project to jump out of the gate was Stringfellow's CD, This Sounds Like Goodbye. There are ten songs here - genre-wise, he takes the listener all over the map with some solemn breakup pop, a little bit of harpsichord, some hip-hop influenced (but not really hip-hop) stuff, and a couple of instrumentals. The singer sounds the same, though - that voice, my gosh - and you'll find yourself compelled to put laments like "Too True" and "Your Love Won't be Denied" on repeat. Also featured here is a cover of Big Star's "Take Care". This is a quiet and respectful version of a timeless song, and a great ending to an arresting debut. This Sounds Like Goodbye was recorded mostly at the home studio by Ken. Since the release of TSLG Ken has started a new band named Saltine, and has recently played as a sideman with R.E.M.

MOJO February 1998
"An informal labour of love, not an attempt to please an increasingly clueless major label… The inevitable aura of Big Star pervades - not only in the cover of [Big Star's] 'Take Care', but in the excellent, Chris Bell-ish 'Your Love Won't Be Denied' and the remarkable 'Anxiety Rider'… Truly, this music speaks to a generation." - Dave DiMartino

CMJ Weekly New Music Report November 24, 1997
"Ken Stringfellow is spreading his wings in a variety of interesting directions. A far more enigmatic album than anything the Posies have ever done… It's great to hear Stringfellow work outside the boundaries of power pop to experiment with different instruments and sounds, fiddle with synthesizers and let himself wander in the more disparate, unlinear regions of a song's world (with the exception of the woebegone 'Too True' which could very well be The Posies song that got away). The hints of songwriting wanderlust heard throughout This Sounds Like Goodbye bode well for Stringfellow's future, post-Posies work." - Cheryl Botchick

MAGNET Issue #33 March/April 1998
"Stringfellow's solo debut makes you realize how much of the creative load he's always carried. 'Here's To The Future' showcases his invigorating voice in a simple melody. 'Trans Potato' is a dyslexic, wordless exercise floating in a punchbowl with pungent slices of backwards guitar. [Ken] trades the Parisian wine-bar ambience of Alex Chilton's 'Take Care' for a simpler rendition, framed by brontosaurus guitar rumblings. This album doesn't sound like 'goodbye' at all."

HITS Volume 12, #570 November 14, 1997
"Former Posies co-frontman greets a more intimate approach than he's ever employed on this eclectic record. His singing sounds more naked and his guitar playing more adventurous, but the same rare brilliance of melody and grit that made the Posies power-pop gods hasn't said goodbye; now it's enhanced by occasional loops, keyboards and experimental sounds." - (S.G.)