Har Mar Superstar Bye Bye 17

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http://www.thecurrent.org/feature/2013/04/17/har-mar-superstar-first-listen

With Har Mar, you always end up with the music, and the soulful Bye Bye 17 is an instant attention-getter thanks to its vintage sound. The album was recorded in Austin at Spoon’s Jim Eno’s studio, and mixed in New York by Sean Everett and The Strokes’ Julian Casablancas, who released the album on his Cult Records label.

“First time I saw Sean was at [New York’s] Mercury Lounge years back, and I was blown away by his voice, his confidence and his showmanship,” said Casablancas in press materials. “He’s the man with the golden voice… Like the dude himself, the record’s just tough, sad, hilarious, and rad.”

Unlike the more electropop Dark Touches (2009), and The Handler (2004), which took you to ’70s Stevie Wonder, Bye Bye 17 is a vinylesque, Otis Redding-meets-Sam Cooke soul/R&B feast.

“I wanted it to sound like it was old, unearthed, like done in a garage on a VHS tape and dubbed like eight times,” said Tillman. “I take on different forms of R&B and I love them all.”

Coupled with his stage presence, song titles like first single “Lady, You Shot Me” and “Don’t Make Me Hit You,” infuse his act with shock elements.

1. Lady, You Shot Me
2. Prisoner
3. Everywhere I'm Local
4. Restless Leg
5. 12:12
6. We Don t Sleep
7. WWW
8. Rythm Bruises
9. Don t Make Me Hit You
10. Late Night Morning Light