ARTIST: Self Defense Family
TITLE: The Power Does Not Work In the Presence Of Nonbelievers
LABEL: Bad Paintings
GENRE: Rock
SOURCE: WEB (https://badpaintings.bandcamp.com/)
BITRATE: 320 kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 19:48
RELEASE DATE: 2016-00-00
RIP DATE: 2016-04-19
ENCODER: LAME
Track List
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1. Early Adopter 1:48
2. I'm On a Different Wavelength 3:02
Than Everyone Else
3. Baby Mother Home 3:47
4. Deersong 11:11
Release Notes:
4 track 12" EP. The Power Does Not Work In the Presence Of Nonbelievers EP sees
Self Defense Family at their most open and intimate. Combining 4 tracks
collaboratively put together by the band from disparate locations across the US,
The Power Does Not Work across the course of a couple of weeks in October /
November 2015. Band members added parts of songs to a shared ægrab bagÆ for
other members to listen and æcall dibsÆ on sections they wanted to work with -
collectively, the band built up whole songs. The instrumental songs were then
passed to vocalist Patrick Kindlon, who selected tracks based on what influences
he heard in them.
The Power Does Not Work demonstrates the breadth of Self Defense FamilyÆs tastes
and abilities, seeming to be the bastard child of Lungfish, The Smiths and Arab
Strap, but so much more dysfunctional. The EP starts by touching on the warped
post punk of last LP Heaven is Earth with track Early Adopter. Heading in to
completely different territory, the positively jaunty IÆm on a Different
Wavelength than Everyone Else is embedded with an ironic innocence. The wistful
Baby Mother Home sounds like the band at their bleakest and most introspective.
On side B is a stunning 11 minute exploration, that at points sounds indebted to
Michael GiraÆs Angels of Light, with hushed vocals that are just perceivable
amongst the sparse melee of the other instrumentation. Whilst the tracks may
come from a whole range of influences, Self Defense FamilyÆs familiar sardonic
attitude is threaded throughout the release. Yet another release in this bandÆs
lexicon that is essential for fans and Self Defense Family obsessives alike.