The Danforths - Look Out For The Wolves
ARTIST.....: The Danforths
TITLE......: Look Out For The Wolves
LABEL......: Modern Radio/Essay
URL........: www.myspace.com/thedanforths
RIP DATE...: May-07-2006
STORE DATE.: Mar-00-2006
GENRE......: Indie
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 68,2 MB
Track Listing:
01 - Goodnight In German 05:09
02 - Milky Eyed 06:33
03 - Look Out For The Wolves! 02:15
04 - Goodbye, Buck 03:45
05 - Oh Oh Oh Jamaica 05:18
06 - He's Cool. Him's My Friend 00:07
07 - A Machine Could Dig That Hole 01:01
08 - I Saw Nathan Dancing 03:08
09 - Movies In My Head 03:05
10 - He's Cool. Him's My Friend 00:06
11 - Tender Shepherd 03:33
12 - Pretty Baby 02:53
13 - Where's My Soda? 01:43
14 - He's Cool. Him's My Friend 00:29
15 - The Last Gymnasium Talent Show 06:19
16 - Jamaica 02:25
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47:49 min
Release Notes:
MRRL027
The Danforths "Lookout For The Wolves" (Handmade version of CD)
Format: CD
Released: March 2006
Recorded: 2004-2005 by Chris Danforth using Scottish Electronics
and by Chris Danforth and Mike Selle at Mike's Studio
Mixed: Chris Danforth and Mike Selle
Engineers: Chris Danforth and Mike Selle
Mastering: Dough Wild at Wild Audio
Artists who perform on this album: Adam Burt, Chris Danforth, Neil
Fasen, Adria Fernandez, Tom Kemmer, Adam Marx, Rachel Robinson,
Mike Selle, Anna Stern, Freddy Votel, Jonathon Warnberg
Notes: The Modern Radio version of this CD has different artwork
than the Essay Records version. There are only 200 copies of this
version made. The packaging was made by Barrett Haroldson and
Chris Danforth. The covers vary in the color of the paper and the
ink used on them. It also comes with a small comic/coloring book.
www.modern-radio.com
www.essayrecords.com
www.skycrusher.com/danforth
The Chris Danforths are not only a three-way high five between 3
incredible musicians, but also an ethereal holy trinity that is
the one real Chris Danforth. Pluralizing his full name and using
it as the nom de plume for his projects eludes to the kind of
musical Schizophrenia that Chris suffers from. His head is filled
with so many sounds, structures and ideas that He is forced to
allow each voice to have its turn at the helm.
In his work, he (the real Chris Danforth) and they (the Chris
Danforths) come to a complete balance between their / his
academic, DIY, and rock 'n roll backgrounds. Recorded between
technically advanced studios and his bedroom with multiple pieces
woven together from 3 piece band tracks and personal sound
constructs to multiple instrument orchestrations featuring members
of his extended Minneapolis family.
"Look out for the Wolves" is the second full length and just like
his first record "Outside Outerspace", he once again twists genres
and moves along with a wide musical vocabulary dancing from hook
to drone and back again. Somewhere between OMD and Faust, this
record finds him honing his perfectly amalgamated quirk-pop to a
more mature place. Combining found sounds, field recordings, synth
and guitar-led songs, he crafts a kind of "lo-fi psych-pop; an
orchestral, angular epic like some long-lost Elephant 6 track
calling in from the twilight zone." Ink 19
His background in experimental music and perfomance yanks any sort
of standard pop-rock record structure out of its element but still
alows him room for straight up undeniable "hits". Old Scottish
electronics are used well beyond their years and pushed past their
potential, forced to do his bidding. Look out for the Wolves has,
singable melodies, a sense of humor, and the eeriness of playing
along with an old-time recording of his grandmother singing a
lullaby. Dying gear, forgotten sounds, found recordings of family
and friends all re-contextualized into one whole. He has a
singular vision, channeled through many internal personalities. He
is the real Chris Danforth. All of them.