Three CD box set includes material from their entire oeuvre including many studio songs that never found a place on an album, like the incredible, jazzy Skeleton Bones with Robert from QUINTRON and MATH. Many much-requested tracks from their first two vinyl albums, Hip Hip Hooray and Here Now Today that were not included on The Early Hi-Ball Years. Songs from their singles on Hi-Ball, Telstar, SOL, and Insipid Vinyl, including their live favorite, Penguin/Powerhouse Raymond Scott medley, their version of t...   [ read more ]

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The first three Coctails albums were raw, fun home recordings made in the relative isolation of the band's Kansas City home. This record, however, was released after the Coctails moved to Chicago and immersed themselves in the local jazz and college rock scene. Perhaps this geographical change accounts for the shift from the frenzied experimentalism of their earlier records to the taut melodicism of Peel. The reeds, clarinets, and vibraphones are gone, replaced with a surprisingly straigh...   [ read more ]

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Progenitors of the lounge revival movement, kitsch-pop icons the Coctails formed in Kansas City in 1989; making their debut at an area art gallery clad in matching yellow tuxedos complete with maroon bowties. The group (singers/multi-instrumentalists Archer Prewitt, Mark Greenberg, John Upchurch, and Barry Phipps) forged a unique, eclectic sound celebrating the sound and imagery of '50s-era space age bachelor pad music, drawing influence from everyone from Miles Davis to Martin Denny. Taking up where Peel ...   [ read more ]

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