Party of One (band)

Party of One was an indie rock band from Minnesota which released one full-length album, Caught the Blast, on May 27, 2003 on FatCat Records. They also released a single, "Shotgun Funeral", prior to this album,^[1] as well as another single, Snap You Like a Twig, on April 20, 2004.^[2] 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.^[3] The band's members were lead vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Eric Fifteen (Eric Johnson), Geoff McCusick, and bassist Terrika Kleinknecht.^[4] Their music has been described as containing "typically confrontational, at times charmingly naïve messages",^[5] and as "punk only by historical association."^[6] Many critics have also described their music as negative and depressing.^[7] Julianne Shepherd has praised Fifteen's voice, which she compares to that of Sean Na Na,^[8] while Citypages has written that Fifteen "...models his political discontent with the ease of an immortal psychopath in a reusable bomb vest."^[9]

Discography

• Caught the Blast (2003) -- FatCat Records

Singles

• Shotgun Funeral (2003) -- FatCat Records
• Snap You Like a Twig (2004) --FTC Records

References