You may remember our interview with Minneapolis musician Andrew Jansen from A Paper Cup Band when he mentioned he was working on “a basement sort of cassette tape under my alias Webby Moore.”

Well, it’s here, and it’s called Thinking Season. And if you dig the stylings of Malkmus, Beck and Cake, you’re going to love it. Oh yeah, and it’s on cassette, so hope you still have a tape deck.

Here are a couple tracks.

Webby Moore : “Creamy Johns is really a woman” (mp3)

Webby Moore : “1.2.3… I’m chaffing” (mp3)

We sat down with Mr. Webby Moore to talk about his alter-ego, his new project, etc. etc.

Who is Webby Moore?
Webby Moore is my alter-ego for lack of a better word. It’s easier to write songs when you are someone else. So I become someone else. And it feels different to. I get sort of a mean gate and I feel more of a struggle I guess. It allows me to be critical in that moment. I used to do a lot of drugs too and when I gave them up I think my body split. One is my addictive personality that feels pain and pleasure in a completely different way than I do. That is Webby Moore. He will bang your girl while shaking your hand. I’m glad I am me and not him

How is WM different than APCB and your other projects?
A Webby Moore song is more stripped down. It is a bedroom project. Many of the songs on the new album “Thinking Season” were recorded minutes after the song was written. Sometimes the songs were recorded on the street or in a national park. A Webby Moore song is step one in writing an A Paper Cup Band track. So I would think those that enjoy A Paper Cup Band would enjoy the hearing where it comes from.

Who are your influences? Malkmus?
I didn’t get into Pavement until recently. I think that vocal styling is more the Femmes, Beck, and Cake’s fault. Recently I have been listening to a lot of Animal Collective, Big A Little A, Liars. You know, the more experimental side of things. But I don’t think that comes out in my music. It’s what I listened to when I was growing up… Cake, Beck, Beastie Boys, Weezer, Bob Dylan and then in later youth, bluegrass and bastard-folk like the Baptist Generals and Langhorne Slim.

Where can people get the new disc?
Well, they can get it off-line on the webby moore site, just googlen it. Or the peddling records site. Or they can e-mail me. We will bike it personally to your house and you can buy it for $4 (yes even in the cold). That’s what Peddling Records is all about. I think I am the 62nd tape they’ve put out. OH yeah… the new disc really isn’t a disc. They are tapes. You got a promo. And if you don’t have a tape machine I will still sell you the tape but I can burn the CD for you too.

Have any gigs coming up?
The cassette release at the Pocketknife somewhere near Lake and Lyndale on January 20… but you have to dig a little bit to find where that is. I guess one could get the tape there too if they’d like.