If you don’t get the movie reference Marvin and the New Sound is named after, you should stop reading this, close your computer, and go wallow in self-loathing for the rest of the day. But since you’re here, we’ll just tell you that it’s from the scene in Back to the Future (duh) when Marty McFly plays the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance. So it’s really hard to listen to the band’s debut record, Bootleg, without imagining it being played on stage in 1955 by Michael J. Fox with a Gibson ES335 (which, NERD ALERT: was not invented until 1958. Get your shit together, Zemeckis.) while a bunch of 1950s squares look on. But we’ve got to believe that the song “White Jungle” would be received with the enthusiastic acceptance of McFly’s “Johnny B. Goode” rendition, as opposed to the sheer horror from his metal shredding which followed.
Marvin and the New Sound definitely do have something of a retro feel to them. The band, made up of members of The Modern Machines, will be releasing Bootleg soon with Don Giovanni Records and the record has an old school vibe—part garage rock, part surf party. Plus, an album cover that makes it look like an LP you’d find while cleaning out your uncle’s closet after he died.
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Anyway, listen to this…
