Out Of My Inbox Into The Laugh Of The Blog And They Wipe The Dirt From Their Songs As They Run
To all those bands I never got round to posting about...
SAN FRANCISCO, April 21, 2006—Scott Solter, the San Francisco musician acclaimed for his production and recording work on albums by acts like the Mountain Goats, Spoon, the Court & Spark, William Lazarus, and Okkervil River, will release his own ambient album (his second solo effort), One River, on May 30, 2006. Solter takes a natural approach - delicately pushing the limits of what can be accomplished with a few processed guitars and some found objects. In its subtlety and calculated simplicity, One River fully envelopes the listener and only gently releases him/her after the seven parts of the album have been allowed to fully unfold.
Scott Solter - Antique Brothers
"The third album by At Dusk, entitled "You Can Know Danger", is the kind of record that only a band that has been playing and living together for quite some time could make. We wrote and recorded these songs after our first cross-country tour, a baptism by fire that left us a stronger, tighter, more confident musical unit. All of the aspects of our music that make it distinctly ours came into relief -- dueling, off-kilter guitars; multiple vocal melodies falling into each other; complex, battering-ram drums. We took our sometimes conflicting interests in non-rock musical styles and adapted them to what we did naturally, yielding phasing, polyrhythmic relationships between instruments lifted from contemporary classical music, as well as non-Western musical traditions we love but don't really understand."
We Saw Them Leave You There
Say That You'll Do It
"The Hazard County Girls have been through a lot in the last year, being from New Orleans and all. Thankfully, the band was on tour when Katrina hit, but they weren’t able to return to their homes (and singer Christy Kane was promptly kicked out when she did return) for months and the band’s finished album sat on a table as release dates and battle plans passed them by. Lucky for us, the band regrouped and stronger than ever. Witness the killer doom pop song, “Insect” from the long-delayed, but certainly worth it Divine Armor:
Insect
"Imagine if Brian Wilson teamed up with Pink Floyd
and battled with Danny
Elfman and Queen."
In that case it's 2006 and it's a band called The Never. Part Queen, part Weezer, part Beach Boys, The Never has a style that is at once familiar but completely unclassifiable. With strong vocal harmonies, eclectic tempos, and variations in texture from track to track, the band bridges the gap between past and present, at the forefront of a new generation of music. This band has musical chemistry that is palpable and the transition from one style to the next is seamless. This is modern pop rock: fresh, catchy without being obnoxious, and incredibly endearing.
Cavity
The Astronaut
SAN FRANCISCO, April 21, 2006—Scott Solter, the San Francisco musician acclaimed for his production and recording work on albums by acts like the Mountain Goats, Spoon, the Court & Spark, William Lazarus, and Okkervil River, will release his own ambient album (his second solo effort), One River, on May 30, 2006. Solter takes a natural approach - delicately pushing the limits of what can be accomplished with a few processed guitars and some found objects. In its subtlety and calculated simplicity, One River fully envelopes the listener and only gently releases him/her after the seven parts of the album have been allowed to fully unfold.
Scott Solter - Antique Brothers
"The third album by At Dusk, entitled "You Can Know Danger", is the kind of record that only a band that has been playing and living together for quite some time could make. We wrote and recorded these songs after our first cross-country tour, a baptism by fire that left us a stronger, tighter, more confident musical unit. All of the aspects of our music that make it distinctly ours came into relief -- dueling, off-kilter guitars; multiple vocal melodies falling into each other; complex, battering-ram drums. We took our sometimes conflicting interests in non-rock musical styles and adapted them to what we did naturally, yielding phasing, polyrhythmic relationships between instruments lifted from contemporary classical music, as well as non-Western musical traditions we love but don't really understand."
We Saw Them Leave You There
Say That You'll Do It
"The Hazard County Girls have been through a lot in the last year, being from New Orleans and all. Thankfully, the band was on tour when Katrina hit, but they weren’t able to return to their homes (and singer Christy Kane was promptly kicked out when she did return) for months and the band’s finished album sat on a table as release dates and battle plans passed them by. Lucky for us, the band regrouped and stronger than ever. Witness the killer doom pop song, “Insect” from the long-delayed, but certainly worth it Divine Armor:
Insect
"Imagine if Brian Wilson teamed up with Pink Floyd
and battled with Danny
Elfman and Queen."
In that case it's 2006 and it's a band called The Never. Part Queen, part Weezer, part Beach Boys, The Never has a style that is at once familiar but completely unclassifiable. With strong vocal harmonies, eclectic tempos, and variations in texture from track to track, the band bridges the gap between past and present, at the forefront of a new generation of music. This band has musical chemistry that is palpable and the transition from one style to the next is seamless. This is modern pop rock: fresh, catchy without being obnoxious, and incredibly endearing.
Cavity
The Astronaut
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