ARTiST : the deadly snakes
ALBUM : porcella
LABEL : In the Red Records
GENRE : Indie
ENCODER : Lame 3.90 / APS
QUALiTY : VBRkbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo
RELEASE : Sep-25-2005
STREET : Sep-26-2005
SOURCE : CDDA
TYPE : Promo
PLAYTIME : 39:15 min
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[#] [Track Name] [Time]
01. debt collection 03:01
02. 200 nautical miles 02:16
03. sissy blues 02:10
04. high prices going down 02:47
05. gore veil 04:35
06. so young & so cruel 03:25
07. let it all go 02:57
08. work 03:32
09. oh lord, my heart! 03:13
10. i heard your voice 03:30
11. by morning, it's gone 01:55
12. the banquet 02:42
13. a bird in the hand is worthless 03:12
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http://www.intheredrecords.com/pages/deadly%20snakes.html
Growing out of the garage? ôWell I don't think The Deadly
Snakes were ever a typical 'garage' band. There are certainly
garage-rock influences in our music. We have always recorded
in lo-fidelity compared to the contemporary standard. We are
influenced by a lot of the same music that your average
1960's-kitsch-throwback band is. But it seems to me a pretty
inaccurate and over simplified description of the groupà Of
four long players and almost ten years of live shows. It's not
as if we've made three records that all sound like the
Kingsmen until suddenly we happened upon a dusty old mellotron
and a fucking Kurt Weill record. In fact, the funny thing is
that EVERY record we've made since Love Undone has been
written about as more 'mature' than its previous. Oh well.
Porcella is a departure from the garage genre. Maybe even from
the last record. But I think we were ill suited in the
'garage' category since we started shaving.ô
Just before touring with The Hives in 2004, The Deadly Snakes
took off to a remote log cabin in the middle of nowhere
Ontario to create their magnum opus ôPorcella.ö On this, their
fourth album, the band's sound is at times dark and desperate,
and at others just plain beautiful. This is an album that owes
its sound to the Zombies (Odessey & Oracle-era), The Kinks
(Village Green-era), Love, Captain
Beefheart, sixties gospel, Nico (Chelsea Girls-era), Leonard
Cohen and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds far more than to garage
rock.
"Porcella" is produced by the band's own Age of Danger, and
features The Deadly Snakes' first use of a string section
(orchestrated by the band), plus plenty of the instrument
trading that's become a group tradition. What started off
being labeled a garage band has matured into a real
"songwriters collective." This time, everyone has a hand in
the song writing, with a sober-minded Age of Danger now
splitting singing duties with the always soulful Andre Ethier.
It is a bigger record, even orchestral at times. Larger in
scale than "Ode to Joy," but "Porcella" doesn't sound
overproduced. It's full of great pop songs that are
simultaneously strange and dark. Songs like 'Gore Veil' show a
new direction for the band, without sounding affected or
insincere. It still sounds like The Deadly Snakes, and never
forced.
The Deadly Snakes have a way of tricking the listener with
pretty sing-along melodies, but behind the happy tunes are
some very dark lyrics. There is a dark and recognizable theme
on this album, about a temporary existenceà about grabbing
onto those precious moments and biting into and feasting on
them. But even though thereÆs a good share of melancholy songs
on the new album, there are still some blistering studio
performances (The Banquet, Sissy Blues, Oh Lord, My Heart!)
that will no doubt feed the band's reputation for invigorating
live shows.
In addition to a CD release, look for a special edition
20-song double LP, alternately titled "A Bird In The Hand Is
Worthless." The sequencing and cover art are completely
different from the CD, with a gatefold package. There are
seven previously unreleased tracks (five of them brand new)
which will not be released in any other format by the band or
the label--vinyl only.