Search - Missing Numbers :: No Anecdote

"Missing Numbers operates outside of traditional genre games, fast-forwarding roots influences into an idiosyncratic but resonant modern context. Kicking out diamond-hard mid-tempo space-blues that crackle with trip-hop loops and freaked-out fuzz guitar, Missing Numbers evoke strange but intriguing descriptions: Howling Wolf fronting The Bad Seeds, or King Tubby remixing The Faces with J. Mascis on lead guitar. This is modern electric blues for a grimy urban reality - broken yet beautiful, bummed but proud." - City Pages Top 10 Bands of 2004 No Anecdote is the new album from Missing Numbers. Led by songwriter and instrumentalist Jimmy Peterson, this Minneapolis band is already creating a sound and vibe totally its own. No Anecdote is a collection of songs that are dark, melodic, and totally modern, yet evocative of distant and dangerous times. Peterson's songs traffic in disenchantment, disillusionment, damaged dreams, and threadbare silver linings. He writes a sort of modern blues for a world where the cubicle is the new cotton mill and white-collar sharecroppers toil for the mortgage man. Yet the mood of the material never falls into self-pity, and there are always twisted, maddeningly catchy pop hooks hidden in the tracks. Peterson, whose utterly unique and beautifully world-weary singing style won him a Minnesota Music Award for Vocalist of the Year, has assembled his strongest collection of songs to date.