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Brew-denell (Brudenell and Brew) present……
Monday 22nd February 2010
SHEARWATER
(MATADOR)
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“One of the year’s best rock albums” - New York Times
“This is a chilling release, epic in both reach and accmplishment… one of the finest records to be released in recent memory.” - PopMatters
Hailed as “almost impossibly majestic and beautiful” (NPR), Shearwater’s Palo Santo (2007, Matador), a suite of ethereal but oddly disquieting art-rock songs loosely centered around the life and death of singer Christa Paffgen (aka Nico), marked the Texan quartet’s debut on the national stage.
The New York Times named the album one of the year’s very best, and the band’s singular combination of sonic abandon and restraint, spun around the soaring, otherworldly voice of part-time ornithologist Jonathan Meiburg – drew comparisons to late-period Talk Talk and both the lovely and anxious moments of Eno’s early solo work.
This year’s much-anticipated Rook takes the band into realms both richer and stranger. Though a similarly haunted, elegaic mood – punctuated by flashes of dread and menace – pervades the album, Rook is its own animal, at once more accessible (the near-title track, “Rooks”, anchored by Thor Harris’ thunderous kick drum, a booming organ, and a stately trumpet line, could almost be mistaken for radio-friendly) and more accomplished than its predecessor, with a depth and grandeur that seem improbably packed into the album’s tidy 35 minutes.
Squalls of feedback have largely given way to sudden gusts of strings and woodwinds, though the band’s fondness for unusual instrumentation remains intact – harp, hammer dulcimer, and a curiously carved metal box all take featured roles.
Each song is a mini-epic, from the in-medias-res opening of “On the Death of the Waters” to the pounding (but drumless) urgency of “Leviathan, Bound”, the abrupt rock of “Century Eyes”, the crystalline depths and heights of “I Was a Cloud” and “The Snow Leopard”, and the final, elegant flourish of “The Hunter’s Star”.
Rook is unlike any other album you’ll hear this year. It has the clarity and yearning ineffability of a waking dream, the strange beauty and internal logic of a fairy tale, and above all, evokes a vanishing world that may or may not be our own.
Web – http://www.shearwatermusic.com
Myspace – http://www.myspace.com/shearwater
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BRUDENELL 18th APRIL 2010http://www.woodenshjips.com/http://www.myspace.com/woodenshjipsONE OF ONLY FOUR UK DATES17th April - Stereo Glasgow18th Apr 2010 - Brudenell Leeds19 Apr 2010 - Bush Hall London20 Apr 2010 - Freebutt Brighton (besides this other gig in May - Brixton Academy w/ Pavement London)If they're good enough to be asked to be main support on a Pavement show, i suggest they're good enough for you!
If you haven't heard them... then you need to!Go discover them.WOODEN SHJIPS VOL.2 – 21st MARCH 2010UK TOUR CONFIRMED(inc. Pavement support) “proof the San Francisco still throbs to the sound of spirited psychedelia”Mojo “mindblowing….”NME “subteraenean cool….”Stool Pigeon “unashamedly beardy and sweaty, but with a real focus on groove that a lot of modern day Kraut-peddlers are missing - or at least, can't pull off.”Fact Magazine “Wooden Shjips generate manic, warped pulses of pop-rock that don't just make your ears bleed but get your toes tapping at the same time.”BBC online"a collision of sorts between The Exploding Plastic Inevitable and The Family Dog in the way these doggedly hypnotic organ grooves are kept company by a surprisingly jaunty, super-tight rhythm section, then punctuated by Ripley Johnson’s reverb-drenched murmurs and his great, stunned, fuzz-heavy guitar solos." Uncut "Combines and updates the transportative force of the Velvet Underground's no-blues drone, Can's unrelenting pulse and the holy garage-rock fire of the Thirteenth Floor Elevators into a compact, wrapped-in-reverb trip of vintage transcendence and forward thrust."David Fricke, Rolling Stone Strap in for travels beyond the galaxy, to tranced-out cosmic bliss! Sick Thirst / Forte presents Vol 2, the second compilation of hard-to-find WoodenShjips tracks. Wooden Shjips (Omar Ahsanuddin – drums, Dusty Jermier – bass, Nash Whalen – organ, Ripley Johnson – guitar) are a vital and refreshingly inspired a trance rock quartet from San Francisco playing with concentrated ferocity, Vol 2 digs deep to collect the band's Sub Pop and Mexican Summer singles, two self-released European tour singles, and a track from Yeti magazine, for nearly 44 minutes of fuzzed-out psych jams. Their sound is something akin to the icy garage rock of early Echo & The Bunnymen crossed with the sun-bleached tremolo-punk of the Scientists. There are hints of krautrock, the trance-inducing organ haze of Suicide, Velvets-style dance-drone, classic desert-fried garage psych and the mysterious, obscure Japanese lysergic-rock band Les Rallizes Denudes, all mixed into one explosive whole. Not just for completists, Vol 2 contains the essential live standards Loose Lips, Death's Not Your Friend (live), and I Hear the Vibrations (the E-Z Version), plus savage covers of Neil Young's Vampire Blues and Serge Gainsbourg's Contact. In 2010, Wooden Shjips will embark on a March tour of Australia and New Zealand, including appearances at Lost Weekend Festival and Golden Plains Festival (AU). An April tour of the UK and Europe will be followed by festival appearances at ATP curated by Pavement (UK) in May and Roskilde Festival (DK) in July.VOL.2 TRACKLISTINGLoose Lips Death’s Not Your Friend (live)Start to DreamingContactVampire Blues I Hear the Vibrations (E-Z version) Outta My Head TICKETS £8 ADVANCE SUPPORTS TBC
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