ARTIST...: Flesh World
TITLE....: Into The Shroud
YEAR.....: 2017
LABEL....: Dark Entries
CAT.NO...: DE-182
GENRE....: New Wave
TIME.....: 26:53
SIZE.....: 61,68 MB
QUALITY..: 320kbps/44,1kHz/Joint Stereo
ENCODER..: LAME
SOURCE...: WEB
RLS.DATE.: 2017/09/08
WEBSITE..: https://play.google.com
TRACKLIST
01) (04:51) Destination Moon
02) (03:02) Into The Shroud
03) (03:43) Knock To Answer
04) (02:39) To Hell With Your Purity
05) (02:31) Problem In The Youth Bulge
06) (04:00) Tell Me I'm In Exile
07) (03:36) Ship Him To Shanghai
08) (02:31) This Great Cheap Face
Flesh World is a dream punk group formed in the summer of 2012 in San Francisco. The
quartet includes Scott Moore (Guitar, Synths) Jess Scott (Vocals, Guitar) Andrew
Luttrell (Bass, Backing Vocals) Sam Lefebvre (Drums). Jess and Scott met while
loitering around the Panhandle district, listening to records, gossiping, and playing
live shows around town with their bands (Scott plays in hardcore group Limp Wrist and
Jess played in the indie pop band Brilliant Colors). The pair immediately bonded over
a shared love of The Velvets and The Mary Chain. They began writing songs in ScottÆs
lofted bedroom in the City and took their name from a XXX magazine. The fully formed
band released their first self-titled 6-song EP in December 2013 for London punk
imprint La Vida Es Un Mus Discos. Two 7ö singles were followed by their debut album
æThe Wild Animals In My LifeÆ released in 2015 on Iron Lung Records.
æInto The ShroudÆ is Flesh WorldÆs fifth release and sophomore album, and their first
for Dark Entries Records. Each of these songs speak to a chaotic or sometimes
eclectic period of influence of different books, ideas, drawings, saints, stories,
and aims gathered in the two year writing process since the previous album. Themes of
this record include writer, advice columnist, and Dreamland actress Cookie Mueller,
the youthÆs effect on the general political psychosis of nostalgia, icon Billy Fury,
and the writings and drawings of Jean Cocteau as a hovering guide for living with
less rules. The record is a topological map showing the cities of the Bay Area and
Los Angeles in rapid change, looking to the books, records, and artists paid study to
in order to create continuity in the constant flux of the city, the punk show, the
gay world, and the rest of the environments Flesh World insulate themselves in for
survival.
The groupÆs dynamic has greatly solidified on this album with a brilliant new rhythm
section. Flesh World find it easy to be influenced by a range of musicians from the
guitar flourishes of Alan Rankine of the Associates, the swinging notes Johnny Marr
of the Smiths, to the romantically desperate vibe of Roland S. Howard and Nikki
Sudden, to the razor thin vocals of Jenny Ross from Section 25, the androgynous
vocals of Roy Orbison, to the structured synths of OMD. Imagine bodied guitar hooks
blending into desaturated pop vocals, injections of synthesizer melodies and anxious
drum builds, peaking into a pure punk-driven dream.
æInto the ShroudÆ was recorded with Jack Shirley at The Atomic Garden in East Palo
Alto, California. There always seem to be incidental forces at work in gathering
characters for a Flesh World record: during the previous LP, Scott had just finished
reading The Secret Historian which profiles gay lifestyle photographer and
pornographer J. Brian, and when the group found the LP cover photo at a garage sale
they realized it was also taken by J. Brian. This time around Cookie Mueller seems to
be watching over the process; Scott recently saw two art shows in one day in New
York; one that was imagined merchandise that would have been produced if John Waters
films were marketed to children and the other about AIDS, the common thread was
Cookie, whom Jess wrote about in ôThis Great Cheap Faceö on the current record. Each
copy includes a double sided fold-out poster with lyrics, a collage of video stills
of the band, and photos pulled from queer literature and arts.
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