Artist description "Lo Fi Love Spy" Cody played most of the tracks except for the Bass on 2 & 8 - Brian Ritchie (Violent Femmes) and the drums on 2, 6 , 8, John Melville (The Everyothers)

Music Style AAA

Musical Influences Bowie, Lou Reed, Mott The Hoople, Todd Rundgren, Mick Ronson, John Lennon, Springsteen

Albums 1.) Cadillac Crown 2.) Lo -Fi Love Spy, 3.)Demo With Mick Ronson, 4.)Slide the Rock Back, 5.)The Out Movement, 6.)Image, 7.)Way Back Until it Hurts

Press Reviews Review of "Lo-Fi Love Spy"...Rylan Morrison..April 2000. Imagine walking into a lounge of sorts, it was raining and you were trying to find that person that drives you crazy, but not finding them drove you to stumble across drinking in such an establishment. Once inside you find a spot in the back; after ordering whatever on the rocks, and as you light up that cigarette, the band tunes up on the stage in the smoke. A voice comes from out of the sound like a seductive sparkling gem. Holding the microphone like your urges to find that one out there Cody Melville, like out of some mixture of lovelorn sequined cowboy whiskey basball cap eighties movie captures you with his ultra sexy serenades to the everyday sadness. Though there is genuine sorrow you can't help smiling through the whole album; "Lo-Fi Love Spy". Maybe it's because you've loved someone, or maybe it's because you've wanted to be loved the way you love Melville's voice which is already having an affair with the musical accompaniment. I have only spent a weekend with this album, but it will stay at my top ten for awhile. It has been on the train, in my ears as I fell asleep, blasting while I type this. I couldn't help singing along and almost melting away into that imaginary lounge. I am usually skeptical of albums that are passed to me from people attempting to be musicians in this hard-to-get-fame world, but I am honestly mesmerized and absorbed by this album. I saw myself along with other melting fans up at the stage waiting for the singing sensation Cody Melville to grab our hands and sing "I surrender" or "Girlfriend" into our eyes while jumping up and down giggling like a victim of Elvis' pelvis. I could also see myself stumbling home alone with the scent of tobacco and liquor to the soundtrack of "Trouble" or "I'm not a King" all the while loving the purity of the moments of life. There is something so classic about the composition of the songs in the album. I am forced to wish I was at a school dance or at make-out point and have any one of these songs be "the song" that would become "our song". Of course Melville transcends any cheeseiness like that, but the idea is unavoidable as you find youself swaying starry eyed to songs such as "Love Spy". Outside of just being classic, the matchless sound comes through the mixture of tastes it leaves in your "mouth". You can tell Melville has the same intense romances with his influences as he does his own music. It isn't completely clear which band or music or era was his biggest influence, perhaps a vast spectrum, which is apparent and perfect. I have to use the cliche of it being timeless. I would have loved this album at thirten years old or if I was 50, or was alive in 1955, hell if it was around in 1803 and I was alive. But there is something lovely about it coming to me at twenty years old, and in this era of bullshit vacant music cluttering the airwaves. I can seriously see certain songs of this fourteen track album being big radio hits. I want it to be hea rd while one is driving home alone, or to a loved one. Perhaps the commercialism of Cody Melville would be the death of his tenderness, but if it was in my power I'd like to make any stardom dreams of his come true. Why not? Isn't it time we get a breath of fresh air in music now. The mastery of instruments all being of Melville's, except for the help on three tracks, is apparent of dedication to his talents as a musician. "Lo-Fi" would be prasied for the contribution to anyone's music collection. The "help" isn't too shabby themselves, Brian Ritchie, the bassist for the "Violent Femmes" and John Melville drumming, from the "Everyothers" make the tracks they play on special in their own right. As for any critcism of the album, I'd have to be limited to saying the density of the amount of songs is a little overwhelming for a first introduction to Melville. Some songs are so apparently favorites that others fall back amongst them. If there were fewer songs then you would be forced to beg for more, give the best songs a chance to bask in their glory! Of course it is egotistical to say that my personal favorites should be the only songs. I wasn't there when certain emotions filled Melville to the point of exploding all over the guitar and paper. But as a first album you do get such a hearty dose that you feel you know the highs and lows of Melville's ability. One question that I do have is, when and where can we see these songs live?

Location Brooklyn, NY - USA

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