Ex-Sic Alp Mike Donovan’s New Album Out, Watch Video For “Do Do Ya?”

Mike Donovan‘s debut solo record, Wot, is out this week on Drag City, and he’s sharing wot’s on his mind, along with a bit o’ eye-candy to spread word of his new gospel. This bolt from weed-ridden left field is the most hands-down, top-up debut album rolling ’round in 2013. Rife with riffing TUNES! Of course, Donovan’s debut comes following a distinguished run of tune-smithing for noise-popster poster ladz Sic Alps, so he’s well prepared to go the solo route with a sweet sac fulla songs. Lyrically, Mike’s sharpened the lead to draw a somewhat less random line in the sand – but worry you not Sicsters, he’s still alit on allusive trips, lost in crystal canyons, turning phrases with an acid flick of the wrist-watch. In this new life of Mike’s, there is a brooding pregnance as he intones over some front-porch 21st-century j’accuse-tic blues with a blur of half-plugged, elegiac slo-mo rocknroll rubbed in for good measure. Guitars intersecting in the manner of the old loom the Stones once used, weaving in blue. Where rubric becomes fabric becomes freecidelic. Confronting the empty in acrostic (inner) space, Wot is Plastic Ono dyspeptic arrhythmia, with Mike’s soul shoutouts at the five-and-dime buried in the symmetry. The dream is over, so he’s starting a new dream.

The dream will also be televised, unlike any postured half-wit revolutionary sentiments, so watch the video for the song “Do Do Ya?,” won’tcha? SPIN’s got the goods, along with a few verbs and nouns expounded from the mouthpiece of Wot.

Listen to “New Fieldhand Bop” here: http://snd.sc/13ixkSo

“The sound field has been cleared, the overdubs and instrumentation have been paired down, and what’s left is a man, his acoustic guitar, and his songs.” – BOMB