Sgt Dunbar & the Hobo Banned

Release Date: 8 December, 2007

Label: B3nson Records

Format: CD LP

RIYL: Neutral Milk Hotel, Beirut, Rock Plaza Central

This new release by Sgt Dunbar & the Hobo Banned is officially their third release, but the first to feature their current 7 piece onstage lineup. It features six multi-instrumentalists playing a style of psych-folk that has become synonymous with Sgt Dunbar, and vocalist Alex Muro using every inch of his vocal chords to relay to you an epiphany he stumbled upon.

Described as “a freight train of a band that will knock you down and help you up again before you hit the ground” and “a magical, music circus with accordion, saw, exuberance and wit”, Sgt Dunbar & the Hobo Banned have been narrowing in on a loose but purposeful multilayered sound over the years, and they have accomplished it here on the self-recorded and produced The Thing About Time.

01. Passing Time (3:49)
02. Dave’s Song (1:57)
03. Don’t Fall Asleep (4:13)
04. The Weight (3:33)
05. Move Your Memories, Part I (2:31)
06. Move Your Memories, Part II (3:06)
07. Realism Is the Purest Form of Art (3:35)
08. Telescope (3:07)
09. Communist Father (3:30)
10. Coin Operated Boy (4:05)
11. Spleen & Ideal (3:00)
12. I Blow As Aimless As the Wind (3:03)