Rockity Roll by Mike Doughty

Rockity Roll was Mike Doughty's third solo release after Soul Coughing broke up, a six-song EP he cut in just two days in May 2003 in New York City, holed up in Pat Dillett's tiny, windowless room at Kampo studios. Dillett is credited as producer, but every sound on it is Doughty's: his voice, his acoustic guitar and beats programmed on a lo-fi Roland Groovebox.

That lo-fi box gives the songs, "27 Jennifers" among them, a toy-like bounce, Doughty's dry, rhythmic delivery skipping over little keyboard plinks and drum-machine ticks. Pitchfork, reviewing it alongside Skittish, was cool on it, feeling the extra gadgets took something away. The original self-released edition went out of print; it lives on, with bonus tracks, in the two-disc Skittish / Rockity Roll reissue.

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