…are appearing Monday at the Paramount. But, as far as I’ve been able to determine, no Seattle media have mentioned the local angle to the fantabulous neo-pop-rockers’ success. The producer of their CD is none other than longtime Seattle-scene stalwart Gordon Raphael, who’d been in Sky Cries Mary and at least 30 other bands. Raphael had been trying to keep a tiny NYC recording studio open when a series of schmooze-connections brought him to the band. The rest is infamy; he’s now ensconced in London, knob-twiddlin’ for assorted Next Big Thing acts. From the looks of this picture, he’s become quite the neo-fop.