Mo Troper has spent the past five years trying to perfect the imperfectible. He's written power pop song after power pop song, picking up a fraying thread carried through time by Flamin' Groovies, Big Star, and Fountains of Wayne, bands that, Troper knows very well, released music that was effectively flawless.
Earlier this year he released a track-by-track remake of The Beatles' Revolver, a power pop urtext. On its face this — all of this — seems like an exhausting and futile task.
But Troper has a sharp sense of humor, an apparently insatiable amount of creative energy, and, above all, a remarkable knack for melody.
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