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░ ▓████▓▌ ░ Artist.......: Diamond Nights ▐▓▀▀
▓ ▐█████▓█ Album........: Popsicle ▀ ░
▀█▄▓████▓▓▄█▀ Genre........: Indie ░▓ ▌
▄▀██▓██▓▓▀ Language.....: English ░▓░▐▓
▓▓▄▀█▓▓▓▀ Label........: Kemado ░▓░ █▓▌
▐█▓▓ ▀▓ Catnr........: Kem023 ░▓▓▓ ▐█▓▓
▓█▓▌ URL..........: n/a ▓░ ███▓▓[z0o]░
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░▓▓░ ▐█▓▓ ░ ░▓▓░ playtime....: 38:21 min ░▓▓ ▐███████▓▓▌ ░
░░ ███▓▓ ▓▓░▓░ rip.date....: 13-08-2005 ░▓▓░ ▓███▀ ▀▓█▓▓ ░
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▀▓█████████████▓▓▓▀ ripper......: JustFunCrew ░▓░ █▀ ░░▓▓▓ ▀▓
░ ▀▓██████▓██▓▓▀ ▓░ grabber.....: EAC V0.95 prebeta 4 ▓▓ ▀░ ░ ░ ░▓░ ░▀
▀▓█████▓▓▓ ░░▓ encoder.....: LAME version 3.90.3 ░▓▓░▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓░
░ ▐███████▓▓▌░▓▓▓░ size........: 56,9 MB ░▓▓▓▓▓ ▓░▓▓░░ ░
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▄▓██░██████▓▓█▀ [ T R A C K . L I S T I N G ] ▀▀▀▓██▓▌
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▓████▓▌ 01. Destination Diamonds 03:17 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 02. Saturday Fantastic 04:12 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 03. Drip Drip 04:28 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 04. It's A Shocka 02:41 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 05. Rex Hex 02:17 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 06. The Girl's Attractive 03:14 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 07. City of Love 03:28 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 08. Snakey Ruth 02:51 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 09. Dirty Thief 03:45 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 10. Needle in the Rice 01:59 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 11. A Kiss to Hell 04:10 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 12. Ordinary Life 01:59 ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ [ A B O U T . T H i S . R E L E A S E ] ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ As Fierce as they may have hoped to appear in ▓▌
▓████▓▌ costumes of black leather and come-hither snarls, a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ lot of popular '80s rock was, at heart, all about ▓▌
▓████▓▌ that creamy, nougaty pop center. Yeah, you can ride ▓▌
▓████▓▌ a Harley on stage, flash all the pyrotechnics you ▓▌
▓████▓▌ like, and generally twist the panties of Bible ▓▌
▓████▓▌ thumpers into new bouquets with your imagery, but ▓▌
▓████▓▌ plenty of tough-looking characters created choruses ▓▌
▓████▓▌ so catchy, cheerleaders could form pyramids around ▓▌
▓████▓▌ them at pep rallies. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Diamond Nights are all too familiar with ▓▌
▓████▓▌ confectionizing hard rock, having earlier this year ▓▌
▓████▓▌ released an excellent debut EP, Once We Were ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Diamonds, that sprinkles sweetener on galloping ▓▌
▓████▓▌ twin-lead guitars, lyrics like "never thought that ▓▌
▓████▓▌ a popsicle chick could taste so good," and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ delivering deep, libidinous sighs. The band ▓▌
▓████▓▌ conjures fond memories of Thin Lizzy, Billy Idol, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ and Cheap Trick without wallowing in nostalgia, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ seamlessly traversing decades as easily as frontman ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Morgan Phalen travels a female-friendly landscape ▓▌
▓████▓▌ (in the occasional rock falsetto). Invitations to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ mess around ("Destination Diamonds") and calls for ▓▌
▓████▓▌ every night to be Saturday candy coat songs with a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ purely celebratory finish, as do the infectious ▓▌
▓████▓▌ vintage keyboard riffs straight from the theme song ▓▌
▓████▓▌ for, Phalen jokingly suggests, "escaping in a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ rocket ship from a planet at war." ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ "We set out to make sugary songs," the singer ▓▌
▓████▓▌ explains. "Have you seen that Judas Priest record ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Turbo? These fingernails [wrap] around a dripping ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ice cream cone and it's kind of psychedelic ▓▌
▓████▓▌ looking. I always liked the juxtaposition of an ▓▌
▓████▓▌ image like that with hard, heavier music." ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Never mind that Turbo is one of Judas Priest's more ▓▌
▓████▓▌ maligned releasesùDiamond Nights aren't aiming for ▓▌
▓████▓▌ lite-metal irony (nor are they to be confused with ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the Neil Diamond tribute of the same name). They're ▓▌
▓████▓▌ interested in "putting all of our musical inklings ▓▌
▓████▓▌ into a sing-along-able format. And those things ▓▌
▓████▓▌ range from heavy metal to '70s rock to '80s pop ▓▌
▓████▓▌ music," says Phalen of band mates drummer Tim ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Traynor, co-guitarist Rob Laakso, and bassist S. D. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Rumsey. "I feel like an overlooked way of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ synthesizing those elements is in a pop format." ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ On their EP and this fall's fantastic upcoming ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Popsicle full-lengthùboth out on Kemado ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Recordsùmuch of that synthesis centers on fusing ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Diamond Dave lyrics to Phil Lynott melodies, a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ marriage that comes naturally in the New York ▓▌
▓████▓▌ band's songs. "I'm a huge Thin Lizzy fan," says ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Phalen. "Their kind of musicality is missing in ▓▌
▓████▓▌ music, where instruments are choreographed ▓▌
▓████▓▌ together; that was a great time in rock 'n' roll, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ when the guitar got such center stage. Having two ▓▌
▓████▓▌ guitars working in that fashion kind of absolved ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the wanky guitar solo, too." ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ While the guitars (and high-spirited harmonies) ▓▌
▓████▓▌ wail in tandem, images of preventing reason from ▓▌
▓████▓▌ interrupting lust run rampant through the songs. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ "Saturday Fantastic" warns that grasping hold of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the now is of utmost importance, as Phalen sounds ▓▌
▓████▓▌ out an impatient last call, "Let's get it started ▓▌
▓████▓▌ when it's got to start and not just whenever/Woah, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ I said the sooner the better... another minute and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ I might be gone." ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ "Love and girls are universal timeless concepts," ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Phalen explains (after noting that his girlfriend ▓▌
▓████▓▌ has pointed out the number of songs about women ▓▌
▓████▓▌ penned by the Nights). "Everybody is always talking ▓▌
▓████▓▌ about sex and love, and yet the music around us ▓▌
▓████▓▌ doesn't represent it terribly well. Van Halen did a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ great job of indulging that to the max, and even ▓▌
▓████▓▌ sappy love songs from like Air Supply did great job ▓▌
▓████▓▌ of indulging the simplest high school way of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ looking at loveùwhich is something nobody really ▓▌
▓████▓▌ grows out of." ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ But Diamond Nights aren't all cold, hard ▓▌
▓████▓▌ crushesùthere are the offbeat one-liners tossed in ▓▌
▓████▓▌ to throw off categorization (the upcoming snaky ▓▌
▓████▓▌ disco track, "Drip Drip," which rhymes "dance ▓▌
▓████▓▌ floor" with "Kandahar"). And both live and on ▓▌
▓████▓▌ record, the band also allow room for introspective ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ballads and hints of smoking Sabbath heaviness. All ▓▌
▓████▓▌ of which makes for a dynamic package that treats ▓▌
▓████▓▌ every song as a precious endeavor, placing a high ▓▌
▓████▓▌ price on those incredible pop hooks, wherever in ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the rock spectrum they may land. "We just have bad ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ADD," Phalen jokes, "and we always have to change ▓▌
▓████▓▌ it up and reintroduce ourselves. That's how we ▓▌
▓████▓▌ originally called ourselves Diamondsùevery song is ▓▌
▓████▓▌ treated like the best and final song we're going to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ write." Thankfully for us, there's more gems to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ come. ▓▌
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