Moultin' Larva by Utility Project is actually two, two, two albums in one! The first contains melodic alt. pop tunes performed by Utility Project aka Doyle Dean along with some friends... the second is a full album of instrumental improvisation on synthesizer, bass, and drums. Why do this? Because two is better than one. Take a look at what other people have said about Utility Project and Jerod Stephen Doyle:WFMU DJ Tony Coulter on Utility Project:"Imagine a very catchy and fun indie rock song. Then, deconstruct that song completely, as if you were taking apart a jigsaw puzzle. Then put the pieces back together in a totally different order, that shouldn’t work, but somehow does. Now you have something that’s catchy and fun, yet intriguingly weird in the best possible way. The music of Utility Project is a little bit like that."Trotsky Icepick/Urinals/100 Flowers member Kjehl Johansen on Utility Project:"Doyle Dean continues to ladle out servings of his sonic witches brew - concocted in a mysterious workshop that flies an amorphous banner entitled “The Utility Project.” Outsider artists, shady musicians, and exiled spiritualists darken the door of his studio. When they leave, they leave behind parts of their artistic souls for the master to conjure and manipulate into oddly literate portraits of this world and other possible words just out of reach. Dean is on a crusade in this collective moment which is filled with crass commercial art and loveless consumerism. With his latest release, he challenges you, the listener, to drink the Kool-Aid and become one with the hive mind of The Utility Project. Count me in Brother!!! Any other path is pure folly."Johanna Bodde aka RadioGirl of The Netherlands on Utility Project:"I hope you are in an open-minded mood today! This is all about an unusual and rather genius combination between avant garde music and a lot of science. I first heard about Doyle Dean and his Utility Project from our mutual friend Sean O'Brien (see elsewhere on this Insurgent Country page), who sent me the disc 'Gasoline' (2007). It was meant to be left, after listening, at the gas pump. The songs were created by using a code, partly existing of oil company statistics. 'Untitled' (2010) was created using coin tosses and by referring to the Chinese Book of Changes, the I Ching. Definitely interesting enough for me and spell-binding in a strange way! After making contact with Doyle, I found out he is a very nice, very funny and most of all extremely smart guy. I mean it - there was definitely no payola involved! I think he deserves some space here to explain about all the things he creates. Consider this: What if writing music was left to chance? A process where notes or chords are determined by the roll of dice or flipping a coin? Music that, essentially, writes itself. Decades ago, John Cage pushed the boundaries of writing music by using coin flips to decide where or how to place a certain note on a score. A Potsdam musician is experimenting with this radical approach to creating music. Doyle Dean, former punk rock band drummer and filmmaker, talks in his home studio about his philosophy of music, some of his latest work and his utilitarian approach to pop / rock. In an email tag, Dean quotes himself,"I set out to re-define popular music but discovered a new way to create extremely unpopular music instead." He writes songs that use chord and drum patterns randomly selected by dice rolls."Matt Jensen (of Divide and Conquer Music) on Jerod Stephen Doyle: On March 15th Doyle Dean (drums) Jerod Sommerfeldt (computer) and Stephen Bird (bass) aka Jerod Stephen Doyle stepped into a studio to record a number of improvised songs which more or less fall somewhere between avant-garde experimental and free jazz. The songs on their self-titled album Jerod Stephen Doyle is the antithesis of pop music and doesn’t contain any recognizable hooks, choruses or anything else you might be able to sing along to. You are greeted with a dry, clean bass tone and a crisp drum sound, which doesn’t change throughout the remainder of the album. “Broad to Missouri” is one of the more captivating tracks on the album. The bass and drums provide the foundation here for Sommerfeldt to go off of. I enjoyed the panning effects on the electronic sounds even if they were too loud in the mix. “b. August 24, 1922” is one of the most experimental pieces on the album which is covered in a dark, ominous mist. Sommerfeldt takes the reins here and eventually arrives at a computer overload at around five minutes in. I can’t say much about the minimalist piece “We Call it Mud Season (Because it's Mud Season) other then you might like it if you can go into an art gallery and interpret the white notebook paper as something meaningful. The album ends with “Shed Petrol, Enjoyed” and “Memoranda” which are two of the strongest songs of the album. “Shed Petrol, Enjoyed” is particularly engaging and finds the trio building on a kinetic vibe that had me invested. The bass line and steady drums play in the pocket while the electric elements are strategically placed. For a one-day session that was improvised Jerod Stephen Doyle is an impressive piece of work. The three members obviously have some innate chemistry."