Tin Horns - Present The Champions Of Victory
ARTIST.....: Tin Horns
TITLE......: Present The Champions Of Victory
LABEL......: Formula For Repitition
URL........: www.myspace.com/
RIP DATE...: Feb-15-2005
STORE DATE.: Feb-14-2005
GENRE......: Indie
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 71,2 MB
Track Listing:
01 - Speak Easy 03:54
02 - Big Spender 01:59
03 - Ballad Of Nonsenso 03:31
04 - Clay Evolved 04:16
05 - Interlude 01:39
06 - Eye Sores 05:28
07 - A Goodbye 04:43
08 - Odd Nuance 02:19
09 - Infinite Self Girth 02:44
10 - Good To Be Back 03:44
11 - Urge, Urge, Urge 04:45
12 - Hot Sun On Tarmac 02:35
13 - Roll Call 04:46
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46:23 min
Release Notes:
Tin Horns features ex-members of The Tide, End Transmission and
The Stereo.
Born out of good vibes between old friends who've already been
around the Twin Cities musical block more than once, The Tin Horns
sinewy and sexy take on the indie-rock playbook as encapsulated on
their debut album, Tin Horns Present: The Champions of Victory, is
immediately gripping. Led by the dual force of Wenz and Allen's
voices, the two trade off on lead, co-mingle spooky harmonies and
belt out passionately over a bed of frenetic percussive action
from Wuollet and with stinging guitar counterpoints from Nelson.
Cuts like the funked up falsetto-friendly proto-punk of "Ballad of
Nonsenso" recall Q & Not U's latest effort, but the band proves
just as adept at gently rolling vocal-driven acoustic balladry
("Odd Nuance"). The combination of Allen's dramatically operatic
windpipes (he pulls off some serious Jeff Buckley-styled
acrobatics at points) with Wenz's lower-pitched sneer-ready vocals
keeps the listener on the hook throughout, whether they're
indulging an affinity for danceable tuneage or slamming out
sinister slabs of rockdom.
Nearly every track boasts a particularly memorable moment of
musical chemistry (the stealthy piano run perfectly in synch with
a punchy drum fill between the verses on "Speak Easy," the way a
beautifully simple country-ish electric guitar lick melts into the
chorus of "Roll Call") that makes it clear The Tin Horns are a
well-oiled cohesive unit and not just a singer/songwriter with
some rotating players. In other words, the Tin Horns are a band
with a capital B. (pulsetc.com)
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Tin Horns are:
Andy Allen - vocals, guitar, percussion, piano
Casey Nelson - guitar, vocals, percussion (sobe)
Dan Wenz - vocals, bass, percussion
Bruce Joshua Wuollet - drums, percussion, vocals, orff
Additional percussion by Knol Tate
Recorded and Mixed at Askeleton Studios by Knol Tate, 2004
Mastered by Dave Gardner at Magneto Mastering
All songs (c) 2004 Tin Horns
Formula For Repitition
P.O. Box 6302 Minneapolis, MN 55406