Mason Proper

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Lock and Key 03:38 Tools
Point A to Point B 03:37 Tools
Fog 03:50 Tools
Only a Moment 03:48 Tools
Out Dragging The River 03:02 Tools
Safe For The Time Being 04:59 Tools
In The Mirror 02:15 Tools
Downpour 04:51 Tools
Shiny 03:17 Tools
A Chance Encounter 04:23 Tools
Life's Cornucopia 02:41 Tools
Alone 03:22 Tools
Miss Marylou Carreau 03:58 Tools
Lights Off 02:02 Tools
Chemical Dress Eliza 04:36 Tools
The World Is Smaller Than You Think 03:53 Tools
My My (Bad Fruit) 03:36 Tools
Intimidation 01:02 Tools
Mr. Charm 02:30 Tools
Carousel! Carousel! 04:37 Tools
I Spy 03:46 Tools
Blue Lips Eternal Inquiry 04:16 Tools
100 Years 03:54 Tools
Friendship 02:40 Tools
100 Yrs. 04:14 Tools
Get Innocuous /Love Lockdown 04:49 Tools
Get Innocuous/Love Lockdown (LCD Soundsystem/Kanye West cover) 00:30 Tools
Rest Up 03:10 Tools
Lock & Key (Ocelot Remix) 08:13 Tools
Lock Lovedown Gets Innocuous (Kanye West vs. LCD Soundsystem) 04:56 Tools
Bone Men 03:59 Tools
The Bone Men 04:33 Tools
Safe For The Time Being (Wallpaper Remix) 05:43 Tools
Raise the Line 03:27 Tools
Traveling Men 02:29 Tools
Safe For The Time Being (Wallpaper. Remix) 04:08 Tools
Get Innocuous - Love Lockdown [LCD Soundsystem - Kanye West] 03:59 Tools
Bike (Pink Floyd Cover) 03:37 Tools
Mason Proper - Lock And Key 03:37 Tools
Safe For The Time Being (The Paronomasiac Remix) 06:54 Tools
The Bonemen 03:57 Tools
Safe For The Time Being (live in the MOKB/91.7 WEEM studio 1/17/08) 05:11 Tools
Traveling Men (The Pond) 02:29 Tools
Part I: The String and Passcode/Part II: Do You Enjoy Drum? 26:54 Tools
Get Innocuous/Love Lockdown 04:52 Tools
Crumbs (live in the MOKB/91.7 WEEM studio 1/17/08) 26:54 Tools
Only A Moment (live in the MOKB/91.7 WEEM studio 1/17/08) 26:54 Tools
Bonemen 03:58 Tools
Chance Encounter 03:58 Tools
Raise The Line (live in the MOKB/91.7 WEEM studio 1/17/08) 04:52 Tools
Gets Innocuous/Love Lockdown (LCD Soundsystem/Kanye West cover) 04:56 Tools
Get Innocuous / Love Lockdown 02:24 Tools
From Point A to Point B 00:30 Tools
01 Point A To Point B 00:30 Tools
My my (Badfruit) 00:30 Tools
WOXY.com Lounge Act - Mason Proper 00:30 Tools
WOXY.com Lounge Act 05/09/06 26:23 Tools
05 Fog 00:30 Tools
03 Shiney 26:23 Tools
04 Lock And Key 26:23 Tools
Mason Proper - Point A to Point B 26:23 Tools
02 Out Dragging The River 26:23 Tools
Safe for the Time Being (Paronomasiac remix) 06:56 Tools
Bike 03:37 Tools
WOXY.com Lounge Act 03:37 Tools
Crumbs 00:00 Tools
Lock and Key Dovecote Records 00:00 Tools
Every Waking Moment - An Interview by Kroodsma 00:00 Tools
Lights Off 00:00 Tools
Lock Lovedown Gets Innocuous (Kanye West/LCD Soundsystem Cover) 00:00 Tools
Mason Proper - Olly Oxen Free - 02 - Point A To Point B 00:00 Tools
Get Innocuous - Love Lockdown 00:00 Tools
Mason Proper - Olly Oxen Free - 01 - Fog 00:00 Tools
Chemical Dreas Eliza 00:00 Tools
Mason Proper - Olly Oxen Free - 03 - Lock And Key 00:00 Tools
Mason Proper - Olly Oxen Free - 05 - Out Dragging The River 00:00 Tools
Get Innocuous!/Love Lockdown 00:00 Tools
Innocuous Love Lockdown (LCD Soundsystem/Kanye West cover) 00:00 Tools
My My 03:42 Tools
Lock Lovedown Gets Innocuous 03:42 Tools
Mason Proper - Olly Oxen Free - 07 - Downpour 04:50 Tools
Harpy Song (w/Jason Perrin) 03:32 Tools
Mason Proper - Olly Oxen Free - 08 - Shiny 03:32 Tools
Mason Proper - Olly Oxen Free - 09 - Alone 03:32 Tools
Mason Proper - Olly Oxen Free - 04 - Only A Moment 00:00 Tools
Safe For The Time Being (Low Scores Remix) 00:00 Tools
Shiney 03:32 Tools
Ambulance Chaser (High School Kid Bedroom Demo) 00:00 Tools
Paranoia Pays (Dr. Reverso Remix) 00:00 Tools
Love Lockdown Gets Innocuous (Kanye West vs. LCD Soundsystem vs. Mason Proper) 00:00 Tools
Ten Minutes More (Original Demo) 00:00 Tools
Sunshine (From "The Sunday Sampler") 00:00 Tools
Mason Proper - Olly Oxen Free - 06 - In The Mirror 00:00 Tools
I Fell Up (From "The Sunday Sampler") 00:00 Tools
Puffed-Up Eyes (Original Demo, Combo Pixies Tribute) 00:00 Tools
Mason Proper - Olly Oxen Free - 10 - Safe For The Time Being 00:00 Tools
Intimidation (Original Demo) 00:00 Tools
My Charm 00:00 Tools
A Chance Encounter (Live Practice Recording) 00:00 Tools
World Is Smaller Than You Think 00:00 Tools
Terrible Liar (From "The Sunday Sampler") 00:00 Tools
Carousel Carousel 00:00 Tools
One Hundred Years (Original Demo) 00:00 Tools
Lock And Key (Ocelot Remix) WWW.CLUBLAND.LV 00:00 Tools
Traveling Man 00:00 Tools
Interview 00:00 Tools
Mason Proper - Lock And Key (ocelot Remix) 08:15 Tools
The World Is Smaller Than You Think (Original Demo) 08:15 Tools
I Spy (From "For Whom The Casio Tolls") 08:15 Tools
Get Innocuous/Love Lockdown (LCD Soundsystem/Kanye West) 08:15 Tools
Mason Proper :: Lock and Key 08:15 Tools
Fog [Live] 00:30 Tools
Gets Innocuous/Love Lockdown 00:30 Tools
Mason Proper - Fog 00:30 Tools
Mason Proper - Get Innocuous - Love Lockdown [LCD Soundsystem - Kanye West] 00:30 Tools
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Mason Proper is an indie rock band which formed in 2004 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. They consist of Jonathan Visger (vocals), Brian Konicek (guitar), Zac Fineberg (bass), Matt Thompson (keyboards) and Garrett Jones (drums). Their most recent album, "Olly Oxen Free" was released on September 23, 2008. Four vans destroyed and sold for scrap metal. Five guitar amps crackled, hissed, and went silent, exhaling a final puff of smoke. An irreplacable vintage keyboard face down at the bottom of a flight of stairs, 13 keys cracked and lifted, never to make a sound again. A string of misfortune seemed to follow the five young men comprising Michigan's Mason Proper (named for an obscure phrase relating to Freemasonry) last year as they toured in support of their 2007 debut album, There is a Moth in Your Chest. Each time they packed up their belongings to head to another town, they would search their bags and equipment for arcane symbols, unexplained objects, anything that might prove to be evidence of the curse of unluckiness they seemed to be living under. "It was a ritual we took up half-jokingly," singer and primary songwriter Jonathan Visger said, "but the second part of the joke was always that if we ever found anything, it would certainly explain a lot." The band powered on through the mishaps and continued to play as many of the shows as they could make it to, despite sending van after van to the junkyard. The early shows were energetic and bubbling with enthusiasm, but as the band encountered more and more trouble they became progressively wilder and more dangerously frenetic, coping by learning to take a sick delight in watching the chaos around them. They were in the grip of mental instability. During this time period, keyboardist Matt Thomson would often disappear for hours at a time without telling anyone where he was going. He even missed the beginning of several shows, including a well-documented incident at Denver, Colorado's Monolith Festival, where he disappeared into the mountains. Around this time a wild-eyed and bruised Jonathan was quoted as saying, "I'm disappointed if I don't shed a little blood by the end of a show," when asked about his wild and self-destructive performances. The band's most fervent supporters are a group known as "The New Destroyers," named after an unreleased song the band retired from their live set after noticing that things would mysteriously break whenever they played it. Some of the New Destroyers cracked the coded messages woven into the artwork of Moth, and through it discovered the secret website the band had created, allowing anonymous communication with the band via the same code. Shortly after they began using it, several unsettling coded messages came in threateningly alluding to private matters in the band's lives. Shaken by the amount of information the person seemed to have, Mason Proper temporarily shut down the site, but not before one last message came in; it decoded as: KEEP GOING CURSESTELLO. Convinced that this was a reference to the Elvis Costello-like glasses Jonathan wore through this time period, bassist Zac Fineberg and guitarist Brian Konicek refused to do any further touring with what they now suspected was the cursed item. Jonathan refused to destroy them, saying they had sentimental value and that he would just lock them away instead, but drummer Garrett Jones, the most superstitious of them all, stole them in the night and burned them in Zac's fire pit. After the allegedly cursed glasses were gone, the band decided to turn over a new leaf and look to the future, hopefully leaving their dark past behind them. They met with producer Chris Coady (TV on the Radio, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Blonde Redhead), and with him selected 10 songs from a pool of 30 they had to choose from, aiming to make a very cohesive album, with a tone that reflected the band's collective state of mind as accurately as possible. They rented a small, empty house for a month and recorded the album, and Jonathan met up with Chris again at Carriage House Studios to mix what would become Olly Oxen Free (on the same console the Pixies' "Doolittle" was mixed on). While some of the songs on Olly Oxen Free do update the dense, electronically-enhanced rock sound the band wielded recklessly on it's debut (which are sure to please longtime fans), it is the times when the band veers off into entirely new territory that are the most intriguing. On "Point A to Point B," nearly all the band's trademark noisiness is gone, while Jonathan sings "In past lives I was wealthy, so probably unhappy. Oh, I'm so glad I died," over a bouncy beat, and a sparse bed of bass and guitar ambience, before opening up to a beautifully simple chorus of, "I swore to myself last time was the last time." The band chose to close the record with "Safe for the Time Being," a song that had surprised the band by becoming an instant live favorite in the months before. A post-apocalyptic slow burner that stays sparse with only a heartbeat kick drum, thin guitar, and the most dynamic vocal melody the band has ever penned, until it explodes at the end in a grand wall of fuzz. Olly Oxen Free will be out September 23rd on New York's Dovecote Records. written by Lewis Muzynski, band friend and historian. Related links: Mason Proper (official site) Mason Proper on Myspace Dovecote Records Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.