You wouldn t be alone. F.M. Cornog has never been feted for overstating his case, and his albums can hardly be described as aggressive, either in their musical content or their marketing strategy. F.M. Cornog takes another step towards recognition of his extraordinary melancholia.
Understatement is a valuable and rare skill, one that few can lay claim to today.
Cybercars, stolen cars, pimpmobiles, they all seem to carry with them a romanticism that emphasizes even further Cornog s gift of creating a lyrical mood without tying his flights of fancy down to specifics. And this is no sentimental speech of the heart. But, then again, a few is all there is. Cornog records alone on a Tascam 388 mini-studio at home, which is currently New Jersey, after years spent living next to the Hell Gate bridge in Queens, New York City. He s a self-taught musician who, for some time, looked like society might reject him faster than he could reject society.