The cover of Legs' debut album, Pass the Ringo, is a photograph of food compost on a pristine plate with a solid blue background. The image applies art photography composition to a distinctly low subject: garbage. It's a useful metaphor for group leader Jeffrey Harland's ramshackle approach. Pop music is traditionally an expendable form, subject to the whims and fancies of a fickle mass audience — and for him, that's exactly the appeal. "I've always been drawn to populist art," he says. But in the same breath, Harland declares that "[Henri] Matisse's paper cutouts would make good pop songs." He claims pop music is more important than contemporary painting, but then uses high-art rhetoric to describe his songwriting. —SF Weekly
