FANG presents...
Artist.......: Midnight Sister
Album........: Saturn Over Sunset
Label........: Jagjaguwar Records
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: JAG304
Source.......: CD (LP)
Rip.date.....: 2017-09-20
Str.date.....: 2017-09-08
Quality......: 208kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://jagjaguwar.com
track title time
1. Canary 2:01
2. Leave You 2:06
3. Blue Cigar 3:30
4. Showgirl 3:44
5. The Drought 3:16
6. The Crow 2:24
7. Daddy Long Legs 3:58
8. Neon 0:30
9. Shimmy 2:48
10. So Young 2:49
11. The View From Gilligan's Island 2:04
12. Hitman 4:25
13. Clown 3:27
14. Their Eyes 4:14
Runtime 41:16
Size 61.36
Release Notes:
Paradoxically, there's really only a fine-haired difference between the satanic
lullaby that begins Rosemary's Baby and the heart-swelling, joyous monotone of
Shelley Duvall's "He Needs Me" from Altman's Popeye. At a glance, they do seem
like polar opposites. But some inter-dimensional Hollywood wormhole connects
them if you allow your mind to take it there. It is this very slit in the fabric
of The Hollywood Magic Spacetime Continuum that the slinky, mysterious duo know
as Midnight Sister is able to travel. Somewhere in the back lots of Burbank,
they dimension hop across this fantastic mega-cosm. It's where Michael Jackson
met E.T. It's how several David Bowies were able to exist seemingly at once.
"Canary," the song that begins Midnight Sister's debut album Saturn Over Sunset,
is a thread stretched through this Hollywood multiverse. Its languid lullaby
verses are swept up into discombobulating instrumental tidal waves - all
sonorous, analog bloops and bleeps.
But no sooner do you find your bearings with "Canary" than do the lithe piano
and cooed vocals of "Leaving You," a song both punchy and serpentine, deliver
you into a nocturnal tableau. We continue into that good, late night with the
album's highlight romp "Blue Cigar." Curious smoke curls across your face as
some terrifying, glamorous woman whisper-sings into your ear over jumpy keys and
squawking, oddly charming horns. You can't quite remember how you ended up here
with these questionable characters. But you can't get out of the booth, not now.
It's too late for you, I'm afraid.
Midnight Sister - the project of intense creatives Juliana Giraffe and Ari
Balouzian - is brought to you by the isolating landscape of the San Fernando
Valley - its colors, its diners, its lunatics, its neon lights. Both lifelong
residents of this storied valley, Giraffe and Balouzian have only become more
inspired by the area's mythology over the years, its two-faced magical
wonderland and tragic circus. And Saturn Over Sunset works almost as an album
version of Altman's Shortcuts, each song a character study of the valley's odd
personae.
"The album culminated into what felt like an interesting movie of dramatized
characters that were around us for that period of time," said Giraffe, a
filmmaker whose done everything from music video to bizarro art films. "I'd
write about people close to me, about friends I'd make living on the streets in
Echo Park, about glimpses of people I saw and wish I knew. Everyone comes from
somewhere and has a story. That's a big part of the music we're trying to get
across. Appreciating all types of characters, however strange and off-putting
they can be at times, and perhaps glorifying the crevices in life that seem
mundane."
Giraffe, 23, the daughter of an LA disc jockey, was raised almost exclusively on
disco and Bowie. Her lyrics and lyrical melodies, informed very much by her
film-making background, were composed gazing out from a tiny retail window on
Sunset Boulevard. Her Rear Window-like longing allowed her imagination to run
wild and cook up the wild narratives that would fill Balouzian's compositions.
Balouzian, 27, is classically trained and already a go-to arranger for odd-pop
names like Tobias Jesso Jr. and Alex Izenberg. Midnight Sister represents a
first for both of them. It's Giraffe's first time writing and performing music.
And it's Balouzian's first foray into playing true pop music.
"I always feel like I'm a kind of musician that kind of wishes he was a painter
or filmmaker," said Balouzian. "And always want to kind of conjure up some sort
of scene in the music I make. So it felt like working on this music and project
together we could kind of merge together and create these small scenes of the
bigger picture of the ‘film' of the album. And since it costs so much to make
a movie, etc. - it felt like we could just conjure these things up in my
apartment or wherever on our own shoestring budget that felt like they really
took you in a way to another place."
Saturn Over Sunset is a shared musical vision of Hollywood's oddest corners. It
is the baroque, eldritch alley you must pass through to fine the speakeasy night
of your life. You'll come out bleary-eyed and the sunrise will be pouring all
pink and orange through the smog and palm trees.
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