Steve Marion certainly knows how to stir things up, in the studio and in the press. Back in February, David Byrne’s Luaka Bop label reissued Marion’s originally self-released Wondervisions, his debut effort as Delicate Steve, which was accompanied by a “press release” penned anonymously by Rock critic Chuck Klosterman. The renowned author of Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs and Killing Yourself to Live hailed Marion as a “polymath who plays over 40 instruments” and a stickler who devoted an entire summer to the pursuit of a lost chord heard on a Jandek album, and the band as “a hydro-electric Mothra rising from the ashes of an African village burned to the ground by post-Rock minotaurs” and “the wordless New Jersey U2.”
Soul Rock crew Delicate Steve plays MOTR Pub Friday. Go here to read Brian Baker’s full Sound Advice.
This article appears in Jun 29 – Jul 5, 2011.
