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Artist......: Hollerado
Album.......: Retaliation Vacation
Label.......: Royal Mountain Records
Genre.......: Indie
Catnr.......: RMR-111-2
Source......: CD
Rip.date....: 2019-06-12
Str.date....: 2019-06-07
Quality.....: 951 kbps avg / 44.1kHz / 2 channels
Url.........: http://www.hollerado.com/
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1. Straight To Hell 3:12
2. Speechless 4:11
3. Days Without Sugar 3:38
4. Time on Earth 3:26
5. SOS 3:42
6. King Kong 3:31
7. Get Over It 3:41
8. One Last Time 3:35
9. Back To The Start 4:16
10. A Little Touch of Madness 5:33
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,: After being in a band for over a decade, Hollerado :,
: singer/guitarist Menno Versteeg has finally discovered the :
:' perfect remedy for taking the stress out of the recording ':
,: process: Just break up. :,
: :
:' ':
,: HolleradoÆs fourth album, Retaliation Vacation, once again finds :,
: the band positioned in the centre of a Venn diagram comprising :
:' Æ70s power-pop, Æ80s New Wave and Æ90s bubble-grunge. But in ':
,: light of the news that the Toronto-via-Ottawa quartet would be :,
: packing it in at the end of 2019, the record sees them more :
:' eager to stray outside the lines, both musically and lyrically. ':
,: In their case, the decision to deep-six the band has, :,
: ironically, invested them with renewed vim and vitality. :
:' ':
,: :,
: ôWeÆre a band thatÆs always lived and died by the radio in terms :
:' of finding fans,ö Versteeg tells Apple Music. ôWhen we were ':
,: writing our last record [2017Æs Born Yesterday], we were like, :,
: æDo we have two singles on here that radioÆs going to play?Æ And :
:' we didnÆt stop writing the record until we did. With this one, ':
,: we stopped caring, but in a good way. We wanted to say whatever :,
: we felt like and do whatever we wanted. We donÆt give a f**k :
:' about anything now!ö ':
,: :,
: :
:' By VersteegÆs own admission, Retaliation Vacation doesnÆt ':
,: ôreinvent the Hollerado wheel.ö But in sharp contrast to :,
: signature feel-good sing-alongs like ôJulietteö, Retaliation :
:' Vacation sees Versteeg wading into social commentary: The ':
,: arms-aloft anthem ôSpeechlessö is written from the perspective :,
: of a father who lost a child in a school shooting, while the :
:' cheeky, almost rap-like verses of ôDays Without Sugarö tee up ':
,: an indictment of Western gluttony and ambivalence. :,
: :
:' ôItÆs definitely less of a party-funtime record than the ':
,: Hollerado of old,ö Versteeg says. ôI like Hollerado to be all :,
: about good times and confetti and explosions, and serve as a :
:' little bit of a departure from reality. But the songs that were ':
,: coming out of us for this record felt almost a little too heavy :,
: for this project.ö :
:' ':
,: :,
: To bring a little levity to these topical tracks, Versteeg :
:' enlisted a local school choir he sourced via Google search. ':
,: (ôWe didnÆt want the parents and kids to see where we actually :,
: record, so we got a really nice, expensive studio for a dayùand :
:' now they have a totally wrong view of what an indie band ':
,: recording process looks like.ö) But on Retaliation Vacation, :,
: such decorative embellishments ultimately serve to reinforce the :
:' thematic concerns of the record, with the kids giving voice to ':
,: the social ills of a world theyÆll eventually inherit. And if :,
: Retaliation Vacation makes no explicit mention of HolleradoÆs :
:' impending demise, certain sonic details underscore the air of ':
,: finality. As the funky jangle disco of the closing ôA Little :,
: Touch of Madnessö cruises out towards the sunset in a ripple of :
:' overlapping guitar solos, the song is gradually sucked into a ':
,: dubbed-out abyss, and weÆre treated to the sound of a band :,
: slowly disintegrating right before our ears. :
:' ':
,: :,
: ôWe started out as a band with no expectations at all,ö Versteeg :
:' says. ôWe were just four people jamming. And we were total ':
,: compulsive noodlers, to our own detrimentùall our career, we had :,
: to rein in our noodling tendencies. So for that song, we were :
:' just like, æF**k it! This is our last song, on our last ':
,: recordùnoodle time!'ö :,
: :
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