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████ GENRE...[ Indie CAT#....[ BAY82E ████
████ LABEL...[ The Leaf Label ENCODER.[ FHG ████
████ YEAR....[ 2012 QUALiTY.[ 320kbps ████
████ SOURCE..[ WEB MODE....[ Joint-Stereo ████
████ PLAYTIME[ 47:47 min REL.DATE[ 04.07.2012 ████
████ TRACKS..[ 11 RiPPER..[ TEAM OMA ████
████ SiZE....[ 93,4 MB SUPPLiER[ TEAM OMA ████
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████ 01 Epic 04:12 ████
████ 02 Get Alive 03:21 ████
████ 03 Crazy Idol 04:30 ████
████ 04 OJ 11:46 ████
████ 05 The Veil 04:25 ████
████ 06 Solid Gold 04:37 ████
████ 07 Today/Tonight 01:26 ████
████ 08 Why I Must 03:09 ████
████ 09 Go Slow 03:47 ████
████ 10 Old Friend 02:11 ████
████ 11 Don't Lie Down 04:23 ████
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████ www.7digital.de ████
████ ████
████ Portland, Oregon duo AU have never sounded ████
████ more alive, more vibrant and more human than ████
████ on Both Lights. Luke Wyland and Dana Valatka ████
████ have channelled their need for catharsis into ████
████ the physical side of making music: the ████
████ pleasure of connecting with real instruments; ████
████ writing intricate, multi-layered songs; ████
████ astonishing live performances. It makes their ████
████ music immediately engaging, lending it a ████
████ razor-sharp energy, even at its quietest and ████
████ most contemplative. ████
████ ████
████ Both Lights, their long awaited third album ████
████ and first for The Leaf Label, is the closest ████
████ their recorded incarnation has yet reached to ████
████ the blissful force of an AU live show, both ████
████ expanding outward in new directions and ████
████ tightly honing their compositional abilities. ████
████ ████
████ Luke Wyland is the leader and principal ████
████ songwriter of AU (pronounced æAy-YouÆ). After ████
████ recording his debut album peaofthesea under ████
████ the name luc in 2005, the band came together ████
████ as he began to perform live. Over a number of ████
████ records and various live incarnations WylandÆs ████
████ songwriting matured, from 2007Æs softly-spoken ████
████ Au to their last full-length proper, 2008Æs ████
████ acclaimed Verbs. Faced with the realities of ████
████ touring full-time, Wyland teamed up with ████
████ drummer Dana Valatka and set about rearranging ████
████ VerbsÆ densely layered songs to suit this new, ████
████ slimmed down AU. ████
████ ████
████ Having spent his teens and twenties playing in ████
████ metal and exploratory rock bands, ValatkaÆs ████
████ hard-hitting approach to percussion and wild ████
████ onstage energy was a further catalyst for ████
████ transformation. Their work as a duo became ████
████ increasingly collaborative, pushing them both ████
████ to the limits of their own playing abilities. ████
████ Their live shows shifted to match, ████
████ simultaneously more intense and more ████
████ exuberant, with Valatka on percussion and ████
████ Wyland taking care of everything else: vocals, ████
████ keyboard, sampler, lap steel, banjo and ████
████ melodica (often two or more at once). The ████
████ first recorded result was 2009Æs tremendous ████
████ Versions EP, featuring radical reworkings of ████
████ songs from Verbs, on which the duo carefully ████
████ pared away any extraneous material, leaving ████
████ the raw emotional matter of the songs intact ████
████ and exposed. ████
████ ████
████ Following a lengthy 2009 tour (140 shows in ████
████ that year alone, playing alongside Deerhoof, ████
████ WHY?, The Dodos, Akron/Family and more), AU ████
████ returned to their hometown, and set to task on ████
████ what became a rebirth of sorts. The recording ████
████ process for Both Lights took nearly two years, ████
████ and found them seeking an entirely new ████
████ approach, beginning most of these songs as ████
████ simple improvisations. ôIt was a real process ████
████ of letting go,ö says Wyland, ôA sort of ████
████ subliminal shift into sounds and ideas that, ████
████ at first, felt quite challenging.ö Rather than ████
████ sounding like a tough record to make, Both ████
████ Lights is striking precisely because it feels ████
████ so animated, so triumphant. ████
████ ████
████ Exploding from the blocks with the uplifting ████
████ æEpicÆ, the entire album draws its power from ████
████ this process of renewal, erupting joyously ████
████ into life. Complete with earth-cracking ████
████ saxophones by man-machine Colin Stetson (the ████
████ powerhouse who also contributes to the albumÆs ████
████ first single æSolid GoldÆ), itÆs an ████
████ appropriate opening salvo for an album that ████
████ began life in a tiny room that Wyland built ████
████ from scratch in the back of a friendÆs garage, ████
████ and sprawled into a one-man tug-of-war with ████
████ love, loss, pain, anger and desire. ████
████ ████
████ Featuring the vocal talents of Portland singer ████
████ Holland Andrews (who also appears on æGet ████
████ AliveÆ and æCrazy IdolÆ), æSolid GoldÆ evokes ████
████ the volatile and thrilling highs and lows of a ████
████ new relationship. While working on Both ████
████ Lights, AU contributed a track to the ████
████ Tradi-Mods vs. Rockers compilation, which ████
████ found them and their contemporaries ████
████ reinterpreting the electrifying music of ████
████ Congolese ensembles Kasai Allstars and Konono ████
████ No.1. Those groupsÆ influence is present in ████
████ the metallic melodies of æSolid GoldÆ and the ████
████ machine rhythms of second single æOJÆ: equal ████
████ parts tenderness and heady, nervous energy. ████
████ ████
████ ôItÆs a true amalgam of my entire history with ████
████ music and the sense of self I have gained from ████
████ it since I was a child,ö says Wyland. ôI was ████
████ seeking to write music that fully encompassed ████
████ myself, rather than relying on superficial ████
████ playfulness and shying away from saying ████
████ anything uniquely my own.ö So it makes sense ████
████ that Wyland has allowed his resonant baritone ████
████ to take centre stage on Both Lights in a way ████
████ that previous AU albums only hinted at. Where ████
████ in the bandÆs earlier days he was camouflaged ████
████ among fellow singers or hidden behind dense ████
████ layers of instrumentation, here his exposed ████
████ voice lays bare a delicious tension between ████
████ the musicÆs mood of joyous release and the ████
████ darker, more cautious tone of his lyrics. The ████
████ music behind him flits with gleeful abandon ████
████ between styles - choral folk, ferocious ████
████ jazz-punk, wild percussive workouts û and the ████
████ albumÆs singular, freewheeling logic is ████
████ defined by the duoÆs willingness to let go of ████
████ constraints and allow the musicÆs natural flow ████
████ to dictate the direction of their playing. ████
████ ████
████ Both Lights closes with a suite of sorts, a ████
████ final quartet that traverses AUÆs entire range ████
████ while serving to draw all the albumÆs ████
████ disparate themes together for one final ████
████ volley. The manic, thrashy æWhy I MustÆ slides ████
████ seamlessly into the softer landscape of æGo ████
████ SlowÆ. Next song æOld FriendÆ features a ████
████ beguiling half-sung, half-whispered vocal turn ████
████ from Sara Winchester, for whom the song was ████
████ written, and who has contributed to every one ████
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