ARTIST: Ferocious Bubbles
TITLE: Save Yourself & Run Away
LABEL: Now Here Records
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 202kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 31m total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-10-24
RIP DATE: 2006-10-18
Track List
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1. Airport 2:58
2. Blood 1:52
3. At The Beach (Twilight) 1:36
4. Skywaves 3:32
5. At The Beach (Dreaming) 1:16
6. Saint Jude 3:04
7. Moons After Moons 1:50
8. Save Yourself & Run Away 2:08
9. Revenge 4:22
10. At The Beach (Reprise) 9:19
Release Notes:
http://www.ferociousbubbles.com/
http://www.myspace.com/ferociousbubbles
http://www.now-here-records.com/
If its true that, as Elvis Costello once famously opined, writing about music is
like dancing about architecture then describing the music of Ferocious Bubbles
may resemble an arc that begins with Isadora Duncan and ends with Merce
Cunningham. Its a music that even at its most spare is beautiful and fluid never
afraid of abstraction, incident, or the ability to change. At its essence is a
vital buoyancy that, despite singer / songwriter Pete Szelenbaums tendency to
stay grounded, pulls everything skyward. There are no fixed points even when
things seem irrevocably stuck.
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.......... There are several songs in the Ferocious Bubbles oeuvre that long for
something off in the distance, but never before has the band released an album
so occupied with the notion of escape. That being said, one might imagine the
Ferocious Bubbles latest album, Save Yourself and Run Away as the soundtrack of
the modern dance equivalent of Waiting For Godot. Listen close and youll hear
the nervous shuffle that comes before making a move towards the unknown:
Ecstasy, fear, calm, darkness, acceptance its all there. But despite the rush of
Airport, Skywaves or the soaring title track, the protagonists of Save Yourself
and Run Away are on the verge of movement but never quite make a
leap............................................................................
......... Or so our ears tell us: Perhaps its only through that Hopeless sense
of hope that only the hopeless would know described to us in Save Yourself and
Run Aways meditative centerpiece, St. Jude, that we know there is life after the
track fades... That we know someone has made a move somewhere. Ferocious Bubbles
began with Pete Szelenbaums head full of songs and a four-track recorder. Though
he had been writing songs for some time, it wasnt until 1999 that a revolving
cast of friends and admirers lent their considerable talents to fleshing these
songs out live and in the studio resulting in a self-titled E.P. With its sweet
lyrics, inventive production, and brevity, the eponymous title said it all: the
Ferocious Bubbles were aggressively
sublime.........................................................................
. The feeling that Ferocious Bubbles were something a community affair was
furthered with Absence is a Strange Something the bands first full-length album.
It was during this time that a Ferocious Bubbles show might feature more than
half a dozen musicians, including a miniature string section. As luck would have
it, that revolving door policy eventually led to the current line up of
Szelenbaum on an overdriven acoustic guitar, guitarist Nick Punch, bassist Vic
Donati, drummer Randall Shurbet, and multi-instrumentalist Ken
Moore...........................................................................
.......... Its this current line-up that recorded Save Yourself and Run Away
and, perhaps not so surprisingly, represents the groups most powerful amalgam to
date. In a live setting the band breaths powerful new life into even the albums
most delicate compositions if you think the album version of St. Jude is
breathtaking, its live counterpart may move you to
tears...........................................................................
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