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MP3 The Bon Mots - Forty Days and Forty Nights with The Bon Mots
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The Bon Mots
In 2000, Michigan-bred veterans Mike Coy and Eric Chial, whose groups Big Angry Fish and Mitch recorded for
Chicago collective Beluga Records in the ‘90s formed The Bon Mots. They brought in Mike’s long-time drummer Kevin Hoetger, who in turn brought in multi-instrumentalist Chris Frantisak, who was in Light FM and Urge Overkill at the time, to play keys.
The group recorded their debut le Main Drag in 2002 with Neal Ostrovsky (drummer for The Webb Brothers
(Warner UK) at his B-Side Audio studio in Chicago. Following Kevin’s move to Austin, Texas in 2002, Jason Styx hit skins for the group at many shows until Neal took over as the group’s permanent drummer in 2004.
Released in late 2003, le Main Drag received significant national college and commercial radio play.
The group’s strong songwriting, mid-sixties informed spooky jangle, and British mod and New Zealand pop influences garnered glowing reviews in SPIN, All Music Guide, Amplifier, Big Takeover, USA Today, Chicago Reader and New City, Portland’s Dagger, F5-Wichita, and the Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times, among many others.
The Bon Mots have performed on bills with Bob Mould, The Church, The Minders, ? and the Mysterians,
The Smithereens, Wheat, The Waco Brothers, The Redwalls and many other great bands, and were invited to play the BMI Stage at Lollapalooza in August 2006.
The group released its second long-player, “Forty Days and Forty Nights with the Bon Mots” in October 2007.
Seven tracks penned by Mike, and six by Eric—making greater use of vocal harmonies, and lusher, more involved
instrumental arrangements—along with liberal doses of Rickenbacker 12-string.
Reviews of le Main Drag:
If Le Main Drag is any indication, the Bon Mots are one of the most promising new bands out there. Before long, they might have a chart-topping double LP on their hands. Think Spoon with a shot of simmered down Hot Hot Heat and a nod to the Yardbirds to boot.
SPIN
The promise of effusive melodies and surefire hooks may be the initial lure, but a further listen defies any attempt to easily categorize them as mere revisionists. Theirs is a skewered delivery, an atmospheric, heavily textured ambiance that makes their approach sound slightly somewhat aloof and less embraceable than those they''re said to emulate . . . they more accurately resemble bands like The Church and REM, groups that also draw on ''60s references but often filter them through a hazy, psychedelic sheen.
Droll vocals contribute to this perception . . . there''s an understated irony that frequently underscores their bittersweet melodies.
AMPLIFIER
Appealingly jangly psychedelic/power-pop drawing on the familiar influences of the Byrds and Zombies but rise to the top of this always-overcrowded genre by virtue of its strong songwriting, atmospheric keyboards and the swirling production of its 12-song album.
JIM DeROGATIS, THE CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
The New Zealand sound of Flying Nun and circa 1986 British whisper-kiss style is alive, with nods to The Chills, The Bats, Church, Help!-era Beatles meets Squeeze and Elvis Costello.
THE BIG TAKEOVER
A lush, mature, and audacious mix of heady guitar fizz and old old-fashioned pop songwriting – a pinch of Zombies and Kinks here, a dash of The Smiths and The Clean there, a splash of something slightly Soft Boys for spice.
THE CHICAGO READER
The Bon Mots just may be Chicago''s best-kept secret. Lush, dreamy odes, head bopping, hummable numbers,
and hazy, jazzy, dark and rumbling tunes cement just how dexterous these guys really are.
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