ARTIST: The End of the World
TITLE: You're Making It Come Alive
LABEL: Flameshovel Records
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 197kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 44m total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-10-17
RIP DATE: 2006-10-16
Track List
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1. Croweded Rooms 4:44
2. White Sands 3:40
3. Last Cast 4:44
4. Sunrise At The Manse 5:09
5. Fangs And Fog 5:10
6. Party's Over 2:56
7. Spare Me 3:14
8. Show Your Age 3:58
9. This Simple Mess 1:45
10. Oh, Nashville 9:11
Release Notes:
http://theendoftheworld.net/
http://www.myspace.com/theendoftheworld
http://www.flameshovel.com/
In even the densest urban spaces there are still glimpses of the beyond -
fleeting moments that carry an unnamable sense of immense possibility. There are
spaces between the buildings that reveal vivid pieces of the horizon. There is
wonder for those willing to look. Ecstatic sounds for those willing to listen.
The End of the World is a band in pursuit of such sights and sounds. Their music
is a voice emerging from silence, two guitars turning to a hundred voices. In an
almost hypnotic, sauntering trance, it becomes sound swimming to each corner of
a room with a rhythmic pulse always pushing forward. Their band makes music for
the searcher, the dogged optimist.
Recorded at the Key Club in Benton Harbor, MI on the very same 24-track console
that produced recordings as unquestionably disparate and magical as Sly and the
Family Stone's There's A Riot Goin' On and Cass McComb's PREfection, The End of
the World's debut full-length, You're Making It Come Alive, is a record that
documents a focused creative vision, shaped for the better part of the past
three years. It's more than just the sonics that bind The End of the World,
though. Bobby Stillman, Benjamin Smith and Stefan Marolachakis might as well be
a modern-day band of outsiders in their hometown: New York. They share an
ambition to make music grounded in instinct, heart, and a collective sense of
urgency in a city too often obsessed with fashion, irony and feigned
indifference. To explain better, though, let's jump back for a moment.
Direct and concise, The End of the World's debut recording suggested a band on
the fast track to conquering the pop song. Released in May 2005, the self-titled
EP consisted of four airtight numbers, showcasing melodic refinement amidst
dense guitars and propulsive rhythms. After the EP's release the band did some
exploring. They toured throughout the country, took up residence together in a
house in Maine for a couple months to live and rehearse and, finally, they
recorded on the shores of Lake Michigan. Somewhere amidst all of these
adventures things really opened up. The strong sense of melody and rhythm
remained intact, but the band began to explore new sonic territory.
You're Making It Come Alive expresses a sense of gravity without succumbing to
melodrama, an earnestness that resists preciousness. The prominence of warm,
spacious recordings, nostalgic turns-of-phrase, slide guitars, and tambourines
reveal the inspirations the band finds in times past. Even the expressive vocals
of Marolachakis, whose voice recalls a slowly fading age of great singers,
suggest a strong sense of classicism, but still the band sounds distinctly
modern in a way that eludes easy classification. His lyrics convey a
world-weariness, but one that never succumbs to pessimism or disdain. There is
always a confidence that a better world can be found. In this pursuit, The End
of the World is ever moving forward, using their music to aid their continuing
search.