Women - “Black Rice” / “Group Transport Hall” [MP3]

Women é uma banda de art rock de Calgary, Canadá, formada por Patrick Flegel (guitar, vocals), Matthew Flegel (bass, percussion, vocals), Michael Wallace (drums) e Christopher Reimer (guitar, samples, vocals). Seu álbum de estréia, Women, está sendo lançado pelo selo Flemish Eye neste julho de 2008 no Canadá e via Jagjaguwar nos States em outubro próximo deste ano. Segue duas ótimas amostras de Women, “Black Rice” e “Group Transport Hall”.

MP3: Women - “Black Rice” [+mp3]

MP3: Women - “Group Transport Hall” [+mp3]

RELEASE:

The debut album by Women was recorded over 4 months on ghetto blasters and old tape machines in Chad VanGaalen's basement, an outdoor culvert and a crawl space. Sometimes light and spacious, at other times eerie and dense with an ominous weight, this self titled album touches upon Velvet Underground, Swell Maps or This Heat while not really having any obvious precursors - a lo-fi masterpiece cloaked in layers of vibrato and guitar wash.

Noisy and claustrophobic songs smash through junkyard trash brawls while others lift and soar across the landscape of 50's-informed pop; a contradiction and an enigma, the debut album by Women will find its way onto summertime pool break-in boombox mixes and the turntables of record store devotees.

Women is Patrick Flegel, Matthew Flegel, Michael Wallace and Christopher Reimer, and the four young men live in Calgary, Canada.

Some advance praise:

".... straddles the 1960s' divide between the Warhol crowd's speed-addled New York cynicism and the echoes of psychedelic San Francisco that bubbled up across the pond in the fey, catchy pop of UK groups like the Zombies."
- Pitchfork, on the song "Black Rice"

"This is freak-rock, nursed on psychedelia and prog, but without pretense."
- VUE Weekly

Women "effortlessly mix noise, static and infectious hooks."
- HeroHill

SONG LIST:
Cameras
Lawncare
Woodbine
Black Rice
Sag Harbor Bridge
Group Transport Hall
Shaking Hand
Upstairs
January 8th
Flashlights

Preorder Women via Flemish Eye or Jagjaguwar.

Links: myspace | lastfm | flemisheye | jagjaguwar | musicasocial


CDs & MP3s:
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• MercadoLivre
• Submarino
• Amazon
• CD Universe
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