Produced with former Twilight Singers drummer Bobby MacIntyre at his Mirror Recording in (now flood-battered) Asheville, N.C., “15 Minutes” is one of five tracks on Jody Porter’s self-released Sunflowers Vol. 1 EP, coming November 15.
“The title was obviously a Warhol thing, but the song is more based on things you wish would go away after 15 minutes,” says Porter. “It reflects on some of the psychedelic soundscapes I was up to when I was making records in the U.K. with my first band.”
For all you shoegaze historians, Porter first emerged in the early ’90s with the Belltower, a New York act that relocated to London for a spell and initially featured a pre-Luna Britta Philips. (Porter was her husband at the time.) Adam Schlesinger also joined the Belltower for a hot minute before the group disbanded in 1996, and Porter began is his relationship with Schlesinger and Chris Collingswood’s Fountains Of Wayne.
Porter notes that the music on Sunflowers Vol. 1 touches on the FOW era of his career as well. “It does, at times, tip the hat to the power pop we explored, but with more twists and turns,” he says. “I’m not concerned about getting play on KROC, so I have the freedom to do 24-bar solos with an EBow for no reason if I want. ‘15 Minutes’ is as much about the world’s attention span as it is about fame. I probably should write ‘15 Seconds’ next.”
We’re proud to premiere Jody Porter’s “15 Minutes.”
—Hobart Rowland
Jody Porter “15 Minutes”
