Artist: Ganglians
Title: Still Living
Label: Souterrain Transmissions
Genre: Indie
Bitrate: 229kbit av.
Time: 00:55:56
Size: 96.88 mb
Rip Date: 2011-08-29
Str Date: 2011-08-29
01. Drop The Act 5:12
02. That's What I Want 3:51
03. Evil Weave 3:45
04. Sleep 5:37
05. Jungle 3:49
06. Bradley 6:18
07. Things To Know 4:50
08. Good Times 4:52
09. The Toad 4:59
10. California 5:51
11. Faster 3:01
12. My House 3:51
Release Notes:
In the two years between their 2009 album Monster Head Room and Still
Living, Sacramento's Ganglians signed to Lefse Records, leaving behind
the dingy cobwebs of WoodsistÆs roster and attempting to take their
music into sunnier pastures. With a running time of just under an hour,
the album stays true to the psychedelic flavor of their early tracks,
but the group enlists Dirty Projectors producer Robby Moncrieff to beef
up the music. Despite sounding more like a product of the studio than
of the bedroom, Ganglians remain fundamentally themselves on Still
Living -- they still have lo-fi merits, and are drenched in gallons of
chamber reverb. However, the songs are more melodic and nuanced than
any of their previous albums, and they discover many moods within their
washed-out sound. Conceived as a double LP, the first six songs are
traditional lo-fi pop -- in the style of Kurt Vile or Panda Bear -- and
the second six are more adventurous, jumping around aimlessly from the
strange and icy ôThings to Knowö and ôThe Toadö to the indie-style
garage rock of ôGood Timesö and ôFaster.ö Ryan Grubbs has blossomed
into a confident vocalist, and the other bandmembers (Kyle Hoover, Alex
Sowles, and Adrian Comenzind) have made serious progress as well. From
the performances, to the songwriting, to the production, Still Living
is the groupÆs strongest, most multi-dimensional album.