ARTIST.....: Methyl Ethel
TITLE......: Hurts To Laugh
LABEL......: Dot Dash Recordings
GENRE......: Indie
RIP DATE...: 2020-04-10
RETAIL DATE: 2020-04-10
RUNTIME....: 18:32
SIZE.......: 42,84 MB
QUALITY....: 320Kbps 44.1kHz
ENCODER/CODEC: LAME - MP3 (MPEG-2 AUDIO LAYER 3)
URL........: https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=Bhc7kzwzplvgsjy4hwchfciea7a
Track List:
01. Majestic AF 3:50
02. Honest 4:16
03. Charm Offensive 3:24
04. What Memory Found 3:46
05. The Quicker 3:16
Release Notes:
https://methylethel.bandcamp.com/
Hurts To Laugh will be released Friday 10th April via
Dot Dash / Remote Control.
To celebrate the new single and EP Methyl Ethel will be
supporting Peter, Bjorn & John on their American tour
dates throughout March and April. On return to
Australia, Methyl Ethel will tour in solo mode at
intimate venues in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and
Brisbane.
Hurts To Laugh marks the ongoing output of Methyl Ethel
producer and multi-instrumentalist Jake Webbí»s restless
mind. Time and again heí»s proven that while thereí»s no
distinction between music and art, psychologically
speaking there is a difference between feeling and
emotion. One is a conscious response to a set of
circumstances, the other is the unconscious conditions
of our very being that only occasionally surfaces
through feelings. Hurts To Laugh excavates this
ambiguous site, implied by its very title. You can laugh
so hard it hurts - pure joy. Or laugh despite the pain -
despair. These paradoxes run throughout the EP, as well
as everything that came before.
'Majestic AF' stumbles into its bubbling oscillator and
analogue polyrhythms, while a kick-free drumbeat marches
right into an atonal synth melody supporting Webbí»s
equally idiosyncratic falsetto.
Hurts To Laugh was recorded at the same time as 2019's
Triage and both releases feature cover art by
Sydney-based artist Loribelle Spriovski. Triage was
Webb's third and final album in a trilogy of obliquely
expressed relationship drama, starting with 2015í»s Oh
Inhuman Spectacle which features certified ARIA Gold
single 'Twilight Driving'. 2017's Everything Is
Forgotten birthed the sensational single 'Ubu' which is
now certified ARIA Platinum.
Methyl Ethel is a project thatí»s the brainchild of a
single mindí¬writer, performer and producer Webbí¬while
also being a live band of five members. It makes music
that draws from myriad influences and a history of new
wave and indie rock, while sounding like its own thing
entirely. Both familiar and alien, intimate and aloof,
you never quite know what youí»re in for, but the trip
is bound to be enchanting.