Phil and the Osophers

Brooklyn's Phil And The Osophers have recently released a single that's a fun trip back to a time before mp3's and even CD's! Their Uses of a Man single is packaged into an actual 5.25" floppy disc with the top cut off. Yes, it's true, those boxes of floppy discs you have laying around your house from 1988 are still useful for something.

Anyway, the three song single is a charming lo-fi indie pop record complete with a recording quality that sounds as if it were done on a Tascam 4 track around the same time floppy discs were popular. It's not half bad stuff and the three songs that make up the single, "Uses of A Man," "Propeller Jet," and "Cheap Livin," are jangly pop that shuffle along in that sort of shambolic slacker indie rock way that sounds like the band actually don't know what they're doing. Whether they do or not, is up for debate, but the three tunes are catchy little ditties that sound like really rough sketches of something like an obscure Velvet Underground b-side.

Phil And The Osophers are a clever little duo that not only know how to come up with a cool play on words, and cool recycled packaging, but how to write a lazy pop song on a shoestring budget. Uses of a Man is a cool little package that's a fun listen and definitely worth getting just for the floppy memories!