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"Little Finland" EP (2007)

Little_finland

The "Little Finland" EP including the songs "Holy Shit This is Manhattan" and "Goldie Hawn" is now available as an exclusive free download care of England's SVC Records!

"I Isn't Someone Else" (2006)

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I isnt someone else

I Don't Want to Dream

Nights Like These

I Love the Girls

Shutter

Listless

The Second Winter without You

St. Paul

There's a Reason

"Sheila, Get Me a Lawyer" (2005)

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Law_read

I Miss it All

The Comedian Harmonists

Abigail Adams

Jaclyn Frost

This is Why

Little Leonie

Sheila, Get Me a Lawyer

Recorded at home and alone on Pro Tools LE.

"Postscript Demurely Begins" (2004)

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Wedding_1

Plead & Bleed

A Quarter of Your Thumb

Your Hundred Latest Affairs

A Week in Provence 

If I Died 

A Name in a Star

Village Gates

1,2,3 You Left Me

Your Birthday Song

IM Sad

Recorded at home and alone on Pro Tools LE. 

"Skipping Stones" (2001)

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Sunday_row

Skipping Stones

The City & Horses

Not that Strong

Waiting Out the War

I'm a Bear

Funeral Home

Philadelphia

Young Man Buried in the Snow

A Wolf Coming Down

Recorded on two 8-track ADAT recorders, Roland VS-840 and a Tascam 4-track cassette recorder, respectively.

"Gasoline Dreams" (1999)

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Mini_bike

Gasoline Smelled Like a Dream

I Bought You a Book

I Played You a Song

I Asked Ava

Recorded at home and alone on a Roland VS-840.

"Scared of Numbers" (1999)

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Numbers_3   

Late August

Agoraphobic Aerobics

Teen Pop Star Girl From Brasil

We're Not that Strong

Plenty of Good

Home Sick

Scared of Numbers

Making Decisions is Hard to Do

Impotent Sycophant

Recorded at home and alone on a Tascam 4-track cassette recorder and a Roland VS-840, respectively.

"Time is a Whirlpool" (1998)

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Blakeportrait

Lindsay

Retirement Home

Not at All

Living Behind a Graveyard is Really Hard

My Dying Day

Recorded at home and alone* on a Tascam 4-track cassette recorder.  *"Should I Call?" recorded in a garage with a drummer.

"Stuck in the Muck" (1997)

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Horse

I'd Love to be What You Wanted

We Meet

I Want a Girl to Kiss Me When I Don't Want Her To

You Lead Me Wrong

Cute, Smiles, Pleasing Looks & Teasing Eyes

Pop Star

Love Isn't Fun

Ain't Nobody Getting on the Floor

Stuck in the Muck

Recorded at home and alone* on a Yamaha 4-track cassette recorder when Marc was seventeen. "You Lead Me Wrong," "Pop Star," and "Ain't Nobody Getting on the Floor" with drummer.  "You Lead Me Wrong" also features a lead guitarist and a banjo person.

Kind words for The City & Horses

  • MP3Hugger.com says
    "'Little Finland' ranges from the subtle to the beguiling" and that The City & Horses are "the missing link between Teenage Fanclub and a whole host of artists from the Sarah label." I could just hug MP3Hugger!
  • Monkey calls "Little Finland"
    "a little gem" that "starts as Teenage Fanclub and ends as Belle & Sebastian yet has a homespun charm all of its own."
  • Cable & Tweed says
    "Marc Louis is a talented and prolific singer-songwriter with quite a flair for pop and Pro Tools."
  • The Spoilt Victorian Child says
    "It's just stunning how somebody this talented hasn't been signed. Criminal. The worlds gone mad I tell ya!" Oh, Simon!
  • Hot Stoff says
    "I've found some very beautiful [songs]."
  • Culture Deluxe says
    The City & Horses are "a sound somewhere between Mercury Rev and Teenage Fanclub, but perhaps a more obvious reference point would be The Velvet Underground". And then they interviewed me.
  • SixEyes says
    "The City & Horses is a catchy, jangly, lo-fi project out of New York from generously talented, and generous, Marc Louis. Listen to the sweet and achy jangle of 'Little Finland' and then get excited when I tell you that the tiny 3 song EP which contains this song is just one of many free downloads written and recorded by Louis over the past ten years."
  • The Philadelphia Weekly says,
    "Marc C. Prison kicks out 4-track folk, his brittle guitar and creaky croon carrying tales of mall girls, night driving and general malaise. He is beleaguered, but not beaten."

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