ARTIST: Bound Stems
TITLE: The Logic Of Building The Body Plan
LABEL: Flameshovel Records
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 207kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 25m total
RELEASE DATE: 2005-11-15
RIP DATE: 2005-10-31
Track List
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1. Crimes And Follies 5:15
2. Totipotent 5:25
3. Wake Up, Ma And Pa Are Gone 4:55
4. Up All (Book Of Baby Lemon 1:56
Swamp Re-Fused)
5. My Kingdom For A Trundle Bed 2:44
6. Risking Life And Limb For The 4:24
Coupon
7. Up All Night (Epilogue) 1:06
Release Notes:
Almost every night some Bound Stems get together for something or other. A lot
of times it's for practice, but sometimes it's for a barbecue with a lot of
friendly friends around. A lot of times it's at the studio and songs are
underway. Sounds unfurling in the background: El train, northwest bound;
cicadas; a stick gnawed by a puppy; now a chorus of cicadas; sidewalk
conversations; giant whirring air conditioning stacks; airplanes approaching
O'Hare; window fans whirring and dripping; fat car tires; and the polite beep of
a car in the mouth of an alley. More on this later.
Bound Stems started making music together in late 2002, but they were already up
in each other's business. Bobby Gallivan (guitar, vocals, lyrics), Dan Radzicki
(bass, keys, vocals) and Dan Fleury (guitar) played basketball on the same team
in high school. When they met Evan Sult (drums, tapes), they'd been playing
together for a long while. He'd been in Harvey Danger in Seattle, but just moved
to Chicago. Bobby's a high school history teacher. Fleury's a financial whiz
kid. Radz is a lab scientist (no shit). Evan's an art director at a comic book
publisher. Czech that out. Another voice that graced both the studio and the
stage with Bound Stems for a while is Kate Gross. Newest member Janie Porche
sings harmony and plays an SP606, an acoustic guitar, a keyboard or two and an
electric guitar called Sweet Tones.
Three years later they present this EP, The Logic of Building the Body Plan. It
was a lot of work in seclusion really - a practice space and a studio and back
and forth for six months, pretty much every day. That's what made their album,
Appreciation Night, such a complex, beautiful composition, full of tricky time
signatures and memorable lines. Bound Stems will be releasing Appreciation Night
in the summer of 2006. To celebrate, they made The Logic of Building the Body
Plan, which features seven tracks, including two from the forthcoming record,
three new songs and two song compositions created by Bound Stems and co-producer
Tim Sandusky, with whom they recorded both releases at Chicago's Studio
Ballistico.
The Logic of Building the Body Plan is an intricately arranged 26 minutes of pop
music founded on secretly complicated rhythmic structures. Male vocals and
female harmonies build narratives off scenes summoned by the instruments and by
a library of stolen sounds that emigrated to their songs: grandmas, crafty
cabbies, trains, party laughter, turnstiles, storytellers and a fieldsworth of
crickets. It's approachable music. It sounds like they knocked themselves out,
which they did, and it also sounds like a pleasure to dive headfirst into.