2012
ANNOUNCING: FATHERLAND EP
we’re recording an ep next week. pending matt’s ok, it will be called FATHERLAND. six songs, or maybe five, we don’t know yet. it’ll be out around february 28. a limited amount of 12” vinyl will be available at our west coast dates with cloud nothings.
the songs are:
1. What A Mess
2. Palace Complex
3. Fatherland
4. Slow Learner
5. Believing and Shitting
6. Whichever song is internally referred to as “Stiffarm vs. Heisman”
you heard ‘what a mess’, ‘palace complex’, and ‘believing and shitting’ on the fall tour. citizens of pontiac have the honor of being the only people to have heard ‘slow learner’.
the songs are weirder and darker, more in the vein of stuff like “trash hit”, “learn the language”, “moneybags”, and “scarred for life”. sexier and woozier than that sounds though. production-wise i’ve changed my entire setup since ‘trash hit’, from pres to mics to converters to outboard to monitors. adam has a new guitar rig, courtesy of our patron saint chris ott. we’re also just a lot better at this shit than we were a year ago.
thank you for a fantastic 2011:
-released debut lp TRASH HIT on march 1. great reviews in pitchfork, rolling stone, village voice, rcrdlbl, stereogum, fluxblog, exploding in sound, etc
-toured with sleigh bells and css
-filmed three music videos with our friends phil hodges (“crime”), alex markman (“croquet”), and anthony sylvester (“trash hit”), which debuted on rolling stone, mtv hive, pitchfork, stereogum, etc.
-wore spacesuits and sang backups for the final lcd soundsystem shows
-archers of loaf asked us to open for them a couple times, that was cool
-played villagevoice 4knots festival
-recorded live sessions for mtv hive
-headlined the nytaper party at cmj
-toured north america with indie supergroup mister heavenly
-played shows with tons of great new nyc bands, including yvette, fort lean, sleepies, white suns, tony ferrante and animal kingdom, oberhofer, et al
-met matt pinfield
