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JOURNEY
ECLIPSE
Frontiers
FRCD 517E / FRLP 517 / FRBS 517
CD/LP/BOX
8024391051740 / 8024391051757 / 8024391051764
JOURNEY er et av de mest populære amerikanske rockebandene noensinne, og
har de senere årene nytt en renessanse, både takket være bruk av bandets musikk
i diverse TV-serier og en generelt fornyet interesse på verdensbasis for den typen
hardrock bandet er blant de ypperste eksponentene for. De 12 låtene på Eclipse er
intet mindre enn et dusin AOR-juveler, tidløse, melodisterke og like deler geniale og
enkle! Dette er rett og slett akkurat det perfekte albumet man kunne ønske seg fra
denne gjengen, og vel så det! Konsert i Norge 30. juni, på Skånevik Blues Festival!
“This is an utterly classic album. I could leave it at that…review over!” 100% MELODICROCK.COM
WHITE DENIM
D
Downtown/Cooperative
VVR 768522 / VVR 768523
CD/LP
0602527685229 / 0602527685236
WHITE DENIM fra Austin, Texas slipper nå sitt femte album, og deres første for
etiketten Downtown. Plata har fått tittelen D, og er produsert av MIKE MCCARTHY
(SPOON, PATTI GRIFFIN, …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD).
Første single fra albumet, den lekre og forførende halvpsykedeliske rockeren Drug,
har allerede blitt bra mottatt rundt om kring, og fans av laidback, passe hard rock,
vil elske dette albumet like mye som en pyroman elsker flammer!
http://www.myspace.com/whitedenimmusic
CHAD VANGAALEN
DIAPER ISLAND
Sub Pop
SPCD 871 / SP 871
http://www.myspace.com/chadvangaalen
CD/LP
0098787087123 / 0098787087116
Diaper Island er musikeren, produsenten og kunsteren CHAD VANGAALENs fjerde
album for Sub Pop. I løpet av de siste to årene siden hans forrige, Soft Airplane,
har Vangaalen utviklet seg enormt både foran og bak miksebordet, og han produserte bl.a. fjorårets brilliante WOMEN-album, Public Strain (Jagjaguwar, JAG 152).
Betagende lo-fi-pop/folk fra en artist på vei opp.
“VanGaalen is clearly no longer a basement amateur.” A- THE ONION/A.V. CLUB
“Hard to imagine any of his future albums beating this one, but it’s entirely possible,
and all signs seem to point toward this inventive young producer/songwriter being
on the rise.” 4/5 ALLMUSIC 7.5 PITCHFORK
ART BRUT
BRILLIANT! TRAGIC!
Cooking Vinyl
COOKCD 534
0711297493429
CD
EDDIE ARGOS og hans kumpaner i ART BRUT er tilbake med sitt fjerde album,
denne gangen med ingen ringere enn BLACK FRANCIS i produsentstolen!
De beveger seg både innom det mer melodiske og det mer rocka enn tidligere,
med syrlig flotte tekster på fengende låter som Bad Comedian, I Am The Psychic
og Axl Rose. Intelligent, catchy og passe skranglete!
4/5 MOJO 4/5 UNCUT 7/10 DROWNED IN SOUND 7/10 SPIN
http://www.myspace.com/artbrut
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EFRIM MANUEL MENUCK
PLAYS “HIGH GOSPEL”
Constellation
CST 78 / CST 78LP
CD/LP
0666561007829 / 0666561007812
Soloalbum fra A SILVER MT. ZION og GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPERORco-grunnlegger EFRIM MANUEL MENUCK. Dette er Menucks første soloutgivelse, og bare det er jo en begivenhet i seg selv, mannens tidligere produksjoner i band tatt i betraktning. Tidligere samarbeidspartnere som trommis
David Payant (SMZ, Vic Chesnutt Band), fiolinst Jessica Moss (SMZ,
Carla Bozulich, Vic Chesnutt Band), og vokalist Katie Moore bidrar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efrim_Menuck
PLANNINGTOROCK
W
DFA
DFA 2273 / DFA 2273LP
http://www.myspace.com/planningtorock
CD/LP
0602527696607 / 0602527696614
JANINE ROSTRON, med artistnavnet PLANNINGTOROCK samarbeidet med
THE KNIFE på det hyllede opera-albumet Tomorrow, In A Year. Nå er fokus tilbake
på hennes hovedgeskjeft, og hennes andre album, W, slippes på kvalitets-etiketten
DFA (HOLY GHOST, LCD SOUNDSYSTEM, THE RAPTURE). Det dreier seg om
passe sær electropop med vrengt vokal og dramatiske arrangementer, som mange
fans av f.eks The Knife, FEVER RAY og ZOLA JESUS vil nikke anerkjennende til.
4.5/5 THE FLY 8/10 NME 8/10 CLASH 4/5 FINANCIAL TIMES
4/5 THE TELEGRAPH 4/5 THE SKINNY 4/5 MUSIC OMH
SUBROSA
NO HELP FOR THE MIGHTY ONES
Profound Lore
http://www.myspace.com/subrosatheatre
PFL 072
CD
0616892123163
Dette kvinnedominerte doom rock-bandet fra Salt Lake City har holdt det gående
siden 2005, og leverer musikk i krysningspunktet mellom KYUSS, L7 og PJ HARVEY,
dersom disse var besatt av Djevelen selv! Ta også gjerne med band som KYLESA,
EARTH, DEVIL’S BLOOD, JEX THOTH og SLEEP i ligningen, og du skjønner at dette
er noe helt spesielt. Bruken av utradisjonelle virkemidler som fiolin, dulcimer og a
capella-sang er blant det som gjør at SUBROSA virkelig skiller seg ut fra mengden,
men trass i en del eteriske og sørgmodig vakre elementer, låter det både mørkt, krasst
og usigelig tungt! Blant det ypperste innen amerikansk doom metal/rock akkurat nå!
10/10 METAL REVIEW 8/10 POPMATTERS 4/5 ALLMUSIC 4/5 METAL PSALTER
BARBARA PANTHER
http://www.myspace.com/barbarapanther
BARBARA PANTHER
City Slang
SLANG 9550061 / SLANG 9550062
CD/LP
4027795500610 / 4027795500627
BARBARA PANTHER er sannsynligvis et nytt bekjentskap for de fleste, men hun
kommer neppe til å forbli ukjent lenge! Denne uttrykksfulle artisten er født i Rwanda,
oppvokst i Belgia og bosatt i Tyskland, og debutalbumet hennes, innspilt med MATTHEW HERBERT (MOLOKO) byr på et heftig møte mellom pop og electro, med flotte
melodier, fengslende vokal og oppfinnsome arrangementer. KATE BUSH, BJÖRK,
GRACE JONES, M.I.A. og FEVER RAY er referanser som bør gi en liten pekepinn
på hva du har i vente, men det er likevel noe friskt og originalt over denne artisten!
8.5/10 SOUNDLAB
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WOLVERINE
COMMUNICATION LOST
Candlelight
CANDLE 328CD
0803341336582
CD
Nytt album med det svenske progressive metalbandet WOLVERINE, som har latt det
gå 5 år siden forrige album, Still. Bandet tåler sammenligning med alt fra PAIN OF
SALVATION, FATES WARNING og PAGAN’S MIND til THE GATHERING og TOOL,
og deres dystre og melodiske metal er både kompleks og særdeles iørefallende.
5/5 ETERNAL TERROR 4.5/5 SEA OF TRANQUILITY 4/5 MUZIK REVIEWS
http://www.myspace.com/wolverineoverdose
THE MEN
LEAVE HOME
Sacred Bones
SBR 057CD / SBR 057LP
CD/LP
0616892150565 / 0616892150466
THE MEN er en post-punk-gruppe med hint til band som NEU!, THE CULT,
WIPERS og SONIC YOUTH i lydbildet. Bandet har base i Brooklyn og
“lokalavisa” The Village Voice uttaler følgende om førstesinglen:
“First taste “Bataille” is inspired by the French writer’s Story Of The Eye and rides
a pug-ugly joy-punk riff into almost krautrock oblivion--complete with gorgeous
voice cracks and face-mooshing distortion”
http://wearethemen.blogspot.com/
TUXEDOMOON
UNEARTHED
Cramboy
CDBOY 1717
0876623005698
CD+DVD
CD+DVD-utgivelse som gir oss et utvalg godbiter fra TUXEDOMOONs skattekiste
av tidligere uutgitte demoer, liveinnspillinger osv. DVD-delen inneholder videoer,
bakenfor-klipp osv. Unearthed var en del av (det nå utgåtte) bokssettet 7707,
men har ikke tidligere vært gitt ut på egenhånd.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuxedomoon
SEAPONY
GO WITH ME
Hardly Art
HAR 036CD
0098787303629
CD
Vaskeekte sommerpop sammenlignbar med band som BEST COAST og
VIVIAN GIRLS fra Seattles SEAPONY.
“Go With Me is assuredly worth more than a few listens. The fact that this
collection of sun-bathed rock tunes have arrived just in time for summer makes
it all the better.” 3.5/5 CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND
http://www.myspace.com/seaponyband
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BLACK’N BLUE
HELL YEAH!
Frontiers
FRCD 513
CD
8024391051320
BLACK’N BLUE slapp fire suksessfulle album på Geffen i perioden 1984-87.
På den tiden var nåværende KISS-gitarist TOMMY THAYER med i bandet,
og to av albumene ble produsert av GENE SIMMONS. Nå er bandet tilbake,
og det låter like friskt i dag som det gjorde da.
Det oser selvsagt av band som KISS, RATT, AEROSMITH og WHITESNAKE,
med flotte melodier, flottere refrenger og klare intensjoner om å lage fest!
9.5/10 HARDROCK HAVEN 80/100 POWER OF METAL 4/5 DANGERDOG
ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM/VINCIUS DE MORAES
BRASILIA – SINFONIA DE ALVORADA
El/Cherry Red
ACMEM 208CD
CD
5013929320833
I 1958 ba Brasils daværende president ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM og VINCIUS DE
MORAES om å komponere en symfonisk suite som skulle benyttes under åpningsseremonien til Brasília, en by som var under bygging midt i landet, og som skulle
bli landets nye hovedstad i 1960. De to var selv grunnleggerne av bossa nova, og
skrev genrens største hit, The Girl From Ipanema. Dette albumet inneholder deres
bidrag, med fullt orkester, kor og solister på sang og piano, i tillegg til et annet
viktig brasiliansk musikkstykke, The Forest Of The Amazon, komponert av HEITOR
VILLA-LOBOS, dirigert av komponisten selv i hans siste år, 1959, med den ypperlige
sopranen BIDU SAYAO. Et mesterlig album, rett og slett!
RONNIE HAWKINS
THE BALLADS OF…
Bear Family
BCD 16229
CD
4000127162298
Balladesamling med RONNIE HAWKINS, THE BANDs mentor og første arbeidsgiver. På The Ballads of… får vi hele 30 spor fra HAWKINS tidligste utgivelser med
coverlåter av bl.a. HANK WILLIAMS, BOB DYLAN, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON og
TIM HARDIN, i tillegg til egenskrevne låter..
Musikerne som bidrar inkluderer fintfolk som DUANE ALLMAN, LEVON HELM
og HANK GARLAND. Digipack med 32-siders booklet.
BRENDA LEE
ROCKS
Bear Family
BCD 16686
CD
4000127166869
Brilliant uptempo-samling med BRENDA LEE, The Queen of Rock’n Roll.
Lee debuterte allerede som 11-åring med Bigelow 6-200, og på Rocks får vi hele
36 spor fordelt på 86 minutter pakket i en digipack med en booklet på formidable
52 sider. Inneholder også hits som Sweet Nothing’s, Let’s Jump The Broomstick,
Dum Dum, Here Comes That Feeling, og julehiten Rockin’ Around The Christmas
Tree.
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VLADISLAV DELAY QUARTET
VLADISLAV DELAY QUARTET
Honest Jons
HJRCD 056 / HJRLP 056
4047179556927 / 4047179556910
CD/LP
Den finske komponisten Sasu Ripatti har mange alias. Et av dem er Vladislav
Delay og sammen med Lucio Capece (saksofon, klarinett), Derek Shirley
(kontrabass) og det tidligere Pan Sonic-medlemmet Mika Vainio (elektronikk) har de spilt inn dette brutale eksperimentielle noise-albumet for Honest Jon’s.
http://www.vladislavdelay.com/
TARA JANE O’NEIL / NIKAIDO KAZUMI
TARA JANE O’NEIL / NIKAIDO KAZUMI
K Records
K 234 / KLP 234LP
0789856123421 / 0789856123414
CD/LP
TARA JANE O’NEIL og NIKAIDO KAZUMI har turnert sammen siden 2002, og har
blant annet turnert Japan hele fem ganger. Den naturlige forlengningen av dette er
da selvsagt å gi ut album sammen, nemlig dette. Eksperimentiell lo-fi/noise ”sunget”
på både engelsk og japansk.
http://www.tarajaneoneil.com/
http://www.myspace.com/nikaidokazumi
DIVERSE ARTISTER
KLANGSTUDIE AND KOMPOSITION
Other Sounds/Cherry Red
OTHER 2
CD
5013929190245
Tidlige elektroniske og eksperimentelle lyder fra utøvere som behandlet studio som
et laboratorium og var like mye vitenskapsmenn og gale professorer som musikere
og komponister. Dype hjernesymfonier, pulserende rytmer, støy, ekko, reverb,
baklengs tapeloops og annet som på denne tiden – vi snakker svært tidlig 1900-tall –
var bokstavelig talt uhørt! PIERRE BOULEZ, HERBERT EIMERT, BRUNO
MADERNA og KAREL GOEYVAERT er blant utøverne.
YARBROUGH & PEOPLES
BE A WINNER – EXPANDED EDITION
Big Break/Cherry Red
CDBBR 0048
5013929034822
CD
Denne duoen besto av CAVIN YARBROUGH og ALISA PEOPLES, som slapp
dette albumet i 1984. Dette var deres tredje album, og inneholder #1 R&B-singlen
Don’t Waste Your Time, som også nådde #11 på Billboards Dance Chart,
mens albumet nådde #20. Et must for fans av 80-talls soul, funk og R&B!
Remastret, med bonusmateriale.
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EZEKIEL HONIG
FOLDING IN ON ITSELF
Type
TYPE 088
CD
5065000885649
Sample-basert elektronika/lydlandskaper fra NYC-bosatte EZEKIEL HONIG.
For fans av MORITZ VAN OSWALD, FENNESZ og lignende.
http://www.ezekielhonig.com/
SCOTT OGDEN / MALCOLM HEARN
MAKE
Asthmatic Kitty
AKR 078DVD
DVD
0656605607825
MAKE er en dokumentar som presenterer kunstnerne PROPHET Royal Robertson, Hawkins
Bolden, Judith Scott og Ike Morgan. Spesielt Robertson er interessant da det er han
som inspirerte SUFJAN STEVENS siste album, The Age of Adz.
ROSEMARY CLOONEY / PEREZ PRADO
A TOUCH OF TABASCO, PLUS… - THE VELVET LOUNGE
Bear Family
BCD 17144
CD
4000127171443
Nytt volum i Bear Familys The Velvet Lounge-serie, denne gang med pre-rock’n roll-superstjernen
ROSEMARY CLOONEY og mambo-kongen PEREZ PRADO.
DIVERSE ARTISTER
STICKBURY JAMBOREE
Bear Family
BCD 16638
CD
4000127166388
Stickbury Jamboree presenterer Delta Records beste country og honky tonk-spor.
Delta var en label som var basert i Jackson, MS mellom 1953 og slutten av 60-tallet.
Dette er første gang dette materialet er tilgjenglig på CD.
DIVERSE ARTISTER
Diddy Wah Diddy ...Ain’t A Town, Ain’t A City
Bear Family
BCD 16748
CD
4000127167484
Diddy Wah Diddy… presenterer det beste av Delta Records’ rock’n roll og rockabilly-utgivelser.
I likhet med på Stickbury Jamboree, har disse innspillingene aldri vært gitt ut på CD før.
SONNY BURNS
A REAL COOL CAT – THE STARDAY RECORDINGS
Bear Family
BCD 16877
CD
4000127168771
SONNY BURNS var en honky tonk-innovatør fra Texas som spilte inn for Starday-labelen på 50-tallet.
På A Real Cool Cat får vi 31 av hans beste spor, deriblant to duetter med selveste GEORGE JONES.
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FORHÅND 3. JUNI
BLACK LIPS
ARABIA MOUNTAIN
Vice/Cooperative
VVR 773430
CD
0602527734309
Tracklist:
1. Family Tree
2. Modern Art
3. Spidey’s Curse
4. Mad Dog
5. Mr. Driver
6. Bicentennial Man
7. Go Out And Get It
8. Raw Meat
9. Bone Marrow
10. The Lie
11. Time
12. Dumpster Dive
13. New Direction
14. Noc-a-homa
15. Don’t Mess My Baby
16. You Keep On Running
Founding fathers of Atlanta’s “flower punk” movement the Black Lips are set to release Arabia Mountain, their sixth full-length album, June 7th on longtime label Vice Records and
through Cooperative Music in the rest of the world. Arabia Mountain was recorded between
Brooklyn and Atlanta over the last few months of 2010 and with the collaborative assistance
of celebrated DJ and producer Mark Ronson, Lockett Pundt of Deerhunter, and a human
skull with a microphone jammed into it.
Arabia Mountain also marks the first time the Lips have worked with an outside producer. Mark
Ronson, best known for his production work with the likes of Nas, Adele, Kaiser Chiefs, Duran
Duran, Lily Allen, and Amy Winehouse, recorded nine of the album’s tracks at MetroSonic
studios in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, amid a 10-day bender of late nights and one hospital visit.
He then came back to Atlanta’s Living Room studio for an additional 5 days to add the finishing touches.
“I was already a fan of the Black Lips coming into it and I definitely didn’t want to fuck up
anything,” Ronson told Rolling Stone in December. And fuck up he did not. The production
tests the limits of modern amplification technology, harkening to the full, meaty sound of Fun
House or Lola Versus Powerman or whatever your favorite record of 1970 is.
The Black Lips will be touring the new material up and down the Eastern Seaboard with
garage-pop ladyband the Vivian Girls in April, and again on the West Coast with skateboarding hardcorers Cerebral Ballzy. Full dates below.
FORHÅND 3. JUNI
MY MORNING JACKET
CIRCUITAL
V2/Cooperative
VVR 770978 / VVR 770979
CD/LP
0602527709789 / 0602527709796
Tracklist:
MY MORNING JACKET return in June with “Circuital”, their much-anticipated sixth studio album,
on V2 Records / Cooperative Music.
“The new record, Circuital, is named after the title song,” explains MMJ frontman Jim James. “On that
song I sing about ending up in the same place where you started out. And that makes a lot of sense for
this album… I hate the phrase ‘going back to our roots’, but for this record we came home and made it
in Kentucky. And it just felt a lot like it did when we were first starting out…”
My Morning Jacket formed at the tail-end of the 1990s, with the group drawing upon their rich knowledge
of classic rock, country, soul and psychedelia, and spinning these influences into fresh, life-affirming
rock’n’roll and aching, haunting balladry. MMJ’s fourth album “Z” saw James stretch his song-writing
chops beyond the familiar reference points of the band’s earlier work, an impulse he furthered with
2008’s ‘Evil Urges’, which scattered the group’s ragged rockers and tender, keening ballads with subtly
sensual grooves.
‘Circuital’ was recorded in the gymnasium of a Louisville church and co-produced by Jim James and
Tucker Martine. Jim bonded with Martine while recording backing vocals for Laura Veirs’ 2010 album
“July Flame”, which Martine, Veirs’ husband, also produced. The album was recorded live, with few
overdubs; James’ vocals were recorded at the same time as the band’s performances: “We wanted
to capture the sound of us just playing, being in the same place and just feeding off each other.” For
James, the new album finds a sweet understanding between the questing creative impulses of Evil
Urges and the more familiar feel of My Morning Jacket’s earlier work. “The album’s like a rolling, gentle
soundwave,” he says, in comparison to Evil Urges’ jagged edges. “But I don’t feel Circuital sounds like
our earlier recordings. We’re always trying to go in new directions.”
From the opening call-to-arms that is “Victory Dance” through to the gorgeous closing lament of “Movin
Away”, the ten tracks of “Circuital” display all that is great about My Morning Jacket. The result is yet
another reinvention of their sound that both forges new ground and maintains the distinct spirit of MMJ’s
previous work.
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FORHÅND 3. JUNI
ONEIDA
ABSOLUTE II
Jagjaguwar
JAG 190 / JAG 190LP
0656605219028 / 0656605219011
CD/LP
Absolute II is the final piece in Oneida’s “Thank Your Parents” triptych of releases, begun in
2008 with Preteen Weaponry and followed by 2009’s acclaimed triple disc Rated O. With this
release, the Brooklyn group concludes a challenging and profound long-term project.
The “Thank Your Parents” triptych, totaling around 200 minutes, is intended to be listened to
as a whole or in its component parts. Absolute II stands on its own, in addition to serving as
a chapter in an immense whole.
Tracklist:
Pre Human
Horizons
Gray Area
Absolute I
The music on Absolute II is startling, rigorous and demanding. Oneida is a band that has been
strongly identified with the frenetic, fluid drumming of Kid Millions and the relentless pulse of
classic Krautrock, but this release contains neither audible drums nor identifiable “rock” music.
The recordings move freely across accepted boundaries of rhythm, harmony, and tonality – not
in the form of dramatic, willful experiment, but as a musical distillation of several themes that
have emerged in the wake of Rated O’s dynamism: paralysis, entropy, stasis, possibility, and
finality among them.
While Oneida is known for unpredictability and sui generis musical forms, this release is
particularly resistant to categorization, and it remains difficult to identify precise influences on
the music contained here. This is particularly unhelpful, we realize; suggestions and
recommendations for updating this info release would be welcome, as the band themselves
don’t really know or are being recalcitrant.
FORHÅND 3. JUNI
FM BELFAST
DON’T WANT TO SLEEP
Morr Music
MM 105 / MM 105LP
CD/LP
0880918010526 / 0880918010519
Tracklist:
01 Stripes
02 American
03 Believe
04 Mondays
05 We Fall
06 Noise
07 I Don’t Want To Go To Sleep Either
08 Vertigo
09 In Line
10 New Year
11 Happy Winter
FM Belfast is not really a band, it is a community, a force, a friend. You should not treat them as yet
another buzzworty mp3 clamouring for your attention; you should treat them as a potential friend or
lover, a welcome addition to your life that accepts you for who you are, and wants you to be more of it.
Who are they, though?
For the past four years, Icelandic electropop group FM Belfast have been perfecting the art of reading an
audience and connecting with it, using their steadily growing skills to hone a music that catches easily,
yet runs deep; an art of performing that can—and usually does—induce unique and euphoric states in
large crowds of people, or just in your headphones. It is harsh and technical, warm and embracing and
organic, thoughtful and giddy and cool and inclusive.
Those who have ever seen them perform or listened to their début, How To Make Friends, can and will
verify this. They will talk about FM Belfast as if they were part of the band. Which they are, really. For over
two years now, the group has travelled the world, making friends, taking in experiences and sounds and
the world and one another. And now they’ve funnelled it all into a new long player that you need to hear.
It’s called “Don’t Want To Sleep” and it is a logical conclusion to two years of making friends and taking
in experiences and sounds and adventure. It is also a worthy successor to their debut, a natural progression that retains its predecessor’s spirit and builds upon it while exploring new territories. It will carry
their name further, yet ensure their current friends keep them close to heart. FM Belfasts’s is a carefree,
light-hearted empathy with balls and vigour, an almost aggressively welcoming party.
“Don’t Want To Sleep” is out on Morr Music (World) and Kimi Records (Iceland) in June.
The songs were written and recorded by FM Belfast (guests include Retro Stefson’s Unnsteinn Manúel,
Borko’s Borko and mighty trumpeter Eiríkur Orri Ólafsson), they were produced and recorded by Árni Rúnar Hlöðversson and mixed by Kristinn Sturluson, Gunnar Örn Tynes and Árni Rúnar Hlöðversson. Helmut Erler mastered the thing at Dubplates & Mastering, and the cover was designed by the band and Bobby Breiðholt.
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THE ANTLERS
BURST APART
Transgressive/Cooperative
TRANS 129
0602527701462
CD
2009 saw the release of The Antlers’ astonishing album “Hospice”, an elaborate song cycle
dealing with life, death and all the in-between, a record which earned the trio of Peter Silberman, Michael Lerner and Darby Cicci rapturous praise, striking a deep and resonant chord
in both critics and audiences alike.
Tracklist:
I Don’t Want Love
French Exit
Parentheses
No Widows
Rolled Together
Every Night My Teeth Are Falling Out
Tiptoe
Hounds
Corsicana
Putting the Dog to Sleep
Now comes their follow-up, the rather aptly named “Burst Apart”, released in June on their
new label home Transgressive Records – an epic, breathtaking collection of songs which
are lush, nuanced, and uncommonly moving, seamlessly integrating accessible and affective melodies with dynamic, imaginative orchestrations. Indeed, with its swelling pulsebeats,
intricately crafted arrangements, and dreamy pop hooks, the remarkably sensual “Burst
Apart” sees The Antlers’ ambition and artistry ascending to an extraordinary new plane.
FORHÅND 10. JUNI
DESTROYER
KAPUTT
Dead Oceans
DOC 046
0656605134628
CD
Destroyer is Dan Bejar from Vancouver, British Columbia.
Tracklist:
Chinatown
Blue Eyes
Savage Night At The Opera
Suicide Demo For Kara Walker
Poor In Love
Kaputt
Downtown
Song For America
The Laziest River (bonus track)
Bay Of Pig
Kaputt is his latest vision: an opulent, lyrical, game-changing masterpiece to rank with the
choicest works of Sade, Scritti Politti, Simply Red and Steely Dan. For a more contemporary touchstone, feel free to consider it the sad-eyed psychic cousin of GAYNGS’ smooth
opus Relayted. These elaborate songs were lovingly crafted by a large studio ensemble
of dedicated players; they are given fresh life on the road by an eight-piece touring band
which will visit European shores for the first time this year.
Kaputt was released by the good people of Merge in North America, entering the Billboard
chart at number 62 and receiving exultant hosannas from such august publications as
The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Spin and The Washington Post.
Pitchfork awarded it their Best New Music accolade, noting that “Kaputt feels wise.
Like a mirror that actually points back at something better. Something you can jam and let
wash over you, but also something you can use. It feels funny, tragic, artful, and ultimately
true.”
The record scored an A- grade when reviewed by The Onion’s A.V. Club, who declared:
“Kaputt rolls luxuriously in its own plush soft-rock grandeur, powerfully alluring and deeply
sad at the same time.”
Dead Oceans are honoured to be Destroyer’s new home for the UK, Europe and Japan.
Tuba Records AS - Karl Johansgt. 6 - 0154 Oslo - Norway
Tlf: +47 2201 0000 Fax: +47 2201 0001 tuba@tubarec.com www.tubarec.com
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