Party Of One

Party of One was an American indie rock trio from Minneapolis, Minnesota. They released their debut album, Caught the Blast, on May 27, 2003 on FatCat Records. They also released a single, "Shotgun Funeral", prior to this album, as well as another single, "Snap You Like a Twig", on April 20, 2004. The latter single was reviewed favorably by Shoo, a reviewer for Drowned in Sound, who compared it to the music of both Pavement and Ween. He also praised the single's B-side, "Star Sky Sierra", as being even better than the single itself. The band's members are lead vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Eric Fifteen (Eric Johnson), Geoff McCusick, and bassist Terrika Kleinknecht. Their music has been described as containing "typically confrontational, at times charmingly naïve messages", and as "punk only by historical association." Many critics have also described their music as negative and depressing. Julianne Shepherd has praised Fifteen's voice, which she compares to that of Sean Na Na, while Citypages has written that Fifteen "...models his political discontent with the ease of an immortal psychopath in a reusable bomb vest."
== Links to Peel ==
The band's Shotgun Funeral single was recommended by Peel for three months in a row for February 2003 (Peel's Record Box), March 2003 (Peel's Record Box) and April 2003 (Peel's Record Box). The song was later voted by some of Peel's listeners in the 2003 Festive Fifty.
== Festive Fifty Entries ==
* 2003 Festive Fifty: Shotgun Funeral #24
== Shows Played ==
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*13 February 2003: Shotgun Funeral (7") FatCat Records
*20 February 2003 (Radio Eins): Shotgun Funeral (7") FatCat Records
*13 March 2003: Shotgun Funeral (7") FatCat Records
*18 March 2003: Shotgun Funeral (7") FatCat Records
*27 March 2003 (Radio Eins): Shotgun Funeral (7") FatCat Records
*10 April 2003: 'Six Million Anonymous Deceased (LP- Caught The Blast)' (FatCat)
*16 April 2003: Slide Away (LP - Caught The Blast) FatCat
*23 April 2003: 'Baby Doll (LP- Caught The Blast)' (FatCat)
*24 April 2003 (Radio Eins): Slide Away (LP - Caught The Blast) FatCat
*25 December 2003: 'Shotgun Funeral (7")' (FatCat) FF #24
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
*FatCat
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