Produced with former Twilight Singers drummer Bobby MacIntyre at his Mirror Recording in (now flood-battered) Asheville, N.C., “15 Minutes” is one in all 5 tracks on Jody Porter’s self-released Sunflowers Vol. 1 EP, coming November 15.
“The title was clearly a Warhol factor, however the track is extra primarily based on stuff you want would go away after quarter-hour,” says Porter. “It displays on a few of the psychedelic soundscapes I used to be as much as once I was making information within the U.Okay. with my first band.”
For all you shoegaze historians, Porter first emerged within the early ’90s with the Belltower, a New York act that relocated to London for a spell and initially featured a pre-Luna Britta Philips. (Porter was her husband on the time.) Adam Schlesinger additionally joined the Belltower for a scorching minute earlier than the group disbanded in 1996, and Porter started is his relationship with Schlesinger and Chris Collingswood’s Fountains Of Wayne.
Porter notes that the music on Sunflowers Vol. 1 touches on the FOW period of his profession as effectively. “It does, at occasions, tip the hat to the facility pop we explored, however with extra twists and turns,” he says. “I’m not involved about getting play on KROC, so I’ve the liberty to do 24-bar solos with an EBow for no purpose if I would like. ‘15 Minutes’ is as a lot concerning the world’s consideration span as it’s about fame. I in all probability ought to write ‘15 Seconds’ subsequent.”
We’re proud to premiere Jody Porter’s “15 Minutes.”
—Hobart Rowland
Jody Porter “15 Minutes”