ARTIST: Semifinalists
TITLE: Semifinalists
LABEL: V2
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 213kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 35min total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-04-10
RIP DATE: 2006-03-14
Track List
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01. Origin Song 3:09
02. Show The Way 3:35
03. The Chemicals That Wait 3:08
04. Lets Kill This 4:22
05. You Said 4:01
06. DC 2:59
07. Short Acoustic Song 1:22
08. HWY 101 4:46
09. I Saw You In The Hall 1:37
10. Upstream 2:21
11. Whispering Mice 1:40
12. From Several To Many 2:16
Release Notes:
Chris Steele Nicholson, Adriana Alba, and Ferry Gouw joined the same film school
a couple of years ago. Ferry had been in London for 6 years, gone through art
school and was fucking around in bands. Chris and Adriana had been doing similar
sorta stuff in Chicago and DC respectively, before coming over to London. Ferry
and Chris soon hung around and messed around with music, formed the now
miniscule legend INTENSEDUDES with some friends nÆ subsequently broke it up.
Around the same time they nÆ Adriana were also making films and shit.
The three of them first worked on a film project together around this time last
year. At the same time Chris and Ferry were goofing around in a rehearsal space,
supposedly trying to record a soundtrack for a friendÆs film. The session turned
into a cool sound. They then invited Adriana to goof around with them. This
became Semifinalists.
The Semifinalists sound: Imagine all the 80Æs pop hit records, melted into one
huge blob, which then re-cut and re-constructed by King Crimson and Sonic Youth.
Of course references can be made to The Flaming Lips, The Unicorns, Cindy
Lauper, etc, but fuck that. Semifinalists may sound psychedelic pop/folk
weirdness schizophrenia, but they are punk as shit. PUNK AS SHIT! Dreamy dream
dream.