- Pernice Brothers The World Won't End is officially out today! (aka "Every day is record store day!")
Today is the official street date for the first-ever vinyl release of the Pernice Brothers' classic, The World Won't End. The album has been remastered for vinyl and the early reports give it high marks for the sound quality and presentation (Thanks, early reports!) This is the first in a planned series of Pernice Brothers vinyl releases, so please help spread the word.
The album is housed in a beautiful reverse-board jacket with a lyric insert and download card. The original artwork has been modified for this release.
The World Won't End remains a master stroke of pop songwriting. The album has been universally hailed for its elite-level literate pop and the overall marriage of pathos-laden lyrical content with shimmering sonics.
Joe Pernice's exquisite voice (a mix of Colin Blunstone's raspy croon and Elliott Smith's breathy whisper) and his keen, evocative, storytelling turn tales of love, romantic frustration, and depression into celebrations of real human moments.
Featuring classics songs such as "Working Girls," "Our Time Has Passed," "Flaming Wreck," "Endless Supply" and production which displays a genuine appreciation for the soft-rock textures pioneered by Todd Rundgren, ELO, and 70's era Beach Boys, the album is widely regarded as a high-water mark for Americana and progressive power pop.
"...bringing instruments and melodies together in (remarkably lush) harmony" - NME
"Pernice Brothers could best be deemed a power-pop group, but singer-songwriter Joe Pernice delivers his dark tales with such an overwhelming sense of heartbreak and resignation that the word "pop" sounds inappropriate." - AV club
- Pernice Brothers' The World Won't End: First ever vinyl release of a power pop masterpiece
On November 20th, American Dust will be releasing the Pernice Brothers' The World Won't End on vinyl for the first time ever. This is the first in a planned series of Pernice Brothers vinyl releases.
The album has been remastered specifically for this vinyl release and will come housed in a beautiful reverse-board jacket with a lyric insert and download card. The original artwork has been modified for this release.
The World Won't End remains a master stroke of pop songwriting. The album has been universally hailed for its elite-level literate pop and the overall marriage of pathos-laden lyrical content with shimmering sonics.
Joe Pernice's exquisite voice (a mix of Colin Blunstone's raspy croon and Elliott Smith's breathy whisper) and his keen, evocative, storytelling turn tales of love, romantic frustration, and depression into celebrations of real human moments.
Featuring classics songs such as "Working Girls," "Our Time Has Passed," "Flaming Wreck," "Endless Supply" and production which displays a genuine appreciation for the soft-rock textures pioneered by Todd Rundgren, ELO, and 70's era Beach Boys, the album is widely regarded as a high-water mark for Americana and progressive power pop.
"...bringing instruments and melodies together in (remarkably lush) harmony" - NME
"Pernice Brothers could best be deemed a power-pop group, but singer-songwriter Joe Pernice delivers his dark tales with such an overwhelming sense of heartbreak and resignation that the word "pop" sounds inappropriate." - AV club
- On the road: Matt Baldwin is touring
Matt Baldwin is doing a short tour with stops in Jerusalem and various cities in Europe over the next few weeks.
Here are the dates and venues (sorry, you're on your own for other details!):
March 4th Club Uganda, Jerusalem
March 5th Noon Lecture on New Music at Musrara Art School, Jerusalem
March 6th Levontin, Tel Aviv
March 7th Cave 12, Geneva
March 9th La Chaise, Paris,
March 10th Kunstencentrum Belgium, Hasselt
March 12th Birthday, London
March 16th, The Joinery, Dublin
March 18th, Plugg'd Records, Dublin
Matt's latest record, Night in the Triangle, is available now..
- Garotas Suecas score preparation of blood sausage
This video is awesome. Our very own Garotas Suecas - hot on the heels of their performance at the Primavera Sound Festival - with blood sausage. The song sounds great, and we're hungry.
Garotas Suecas' debut album, Escaldante Banda, is available now.
- Matt Baldwin: New album from the visionary wildcard of modern solo guitar scene.
Night In The Triangle is the new double album by acclaimed guitarist Matt Baldwin, and his second release for American Dust. The project was conceived as a soundtrack for a science fiction film and is Matt’s first extended study for electric guitar and other non-acoustic instruments. Driven by a darker, rawer form of energy than that used in his acoustic work, Night In The Triangle aspires to trance and atmospherics.
Listen to two tracks from the album:
"Sketch for Winter"
"After The Gene Wars"
You can purchase the album over on the Store page or from iTunes.
Upon release in 2008, Matt Baldwin's debut album, Paths of Ignition, was anointed by Julian Cope as Album of the Month on his Head Heritage website. In his review, Cope predicted the evolution that is heard now on Night In The Triangle: "From the very first moment I dragged the vinyl out of its too-tight shrink-wrap cut-and-paste sub-sub-MIND GAMES cover, I knew Matt Baldwin’s take on his role as new Guitar God was gonna be way different to the approach of his acoustic-driven contemporaries. Hell, even the accompanying 24” x 12” poster that fell out with the record was a statement in itself, Matt standing there – all 6’ 4” of him – long-haired, open-mouthed, hands-on-hips, glowering and gormless as Ozzy’s ‘What The?’ pose on the inner gatefold of PARANOID. Sure, the iTunes on my iBook stated ‘Folk’ but the 12” vinyl – in every way – screamed out ‘ROCK!’"
In Matt's work, his role as interpreter is just as crucial as his role as originator. His bold 10-minute cover of Neu’s ‘Weissensee’ and his epic dobro-driven and feedback-overloaded version of Judas Priest’s ‘Winter’ from Paths of Ignition were game changers for a man that felt stifled by association with the solo-guitar purists. On Night in the Triangle, Matt once again expands on the visions of his forebears with daring treatments of songs by The Durutti Column and Conrad Schnitzler.
The visionary wildcard of today's solo guitar music scene, Matt continues to make music that is at once verdant and threatening, comforting yet unsettling. To quote Cope once again, "this so-called folkie Matt Baldwin druid is nothing less than a one-man Heavy Metal Band!...Brothers’n’sisters, it’s fucking heroic. These Great Fists of Matt make Ben Chasny sound like Marge Proops in comparison."
You can find out more about Matt via his website: www.imaginarypsychology.blogspot.com/
