Big Ditch Road - The Great Dissent (EP)
ARTIST.....: Big Ditch Road
TITLE......: The Great Dissent (EP)
LABEL......: Eclectone
URL........: www.bigditchroad.com
RIP DATE...: Oct-22-2006
STORE DATE.: Oct-17-2006
GENRE......: Folk-Rock
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 24,5 MB
Track Listing:
01 - Detroit City Mouse 03:40
02 - Aren't These Condos Killer(s)? 02:03
03 - I Am A Diplomat 02:40
04 - My Body May Hover 03:52
05 - Dirty Mouth 03:01
06 - And Every Shuffle Beat Lays Unemployed 03:59
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19:15 min
Release Notes:
www.myspace.com/bigditchroad
www.eclectone.com
Big Ditch Road
"The Great Dissent (or) How Quantum Physics Saved My Life"
Not too long ago Darin Wald's life was in shambles. Big Ditch
Road, the alt.country band he had led to local prominence, was
falling apart - more importantly, so was Wald's state of mind.
Checking himself into a state hospital for treatment of what would
be diagnosed as "major depression," Wald found the help he needed
and immediately set about chronicling the whole traumatic
experience in song; the result is Big Ditch Road's sophomore
album, Suicide Note Reader's Companion. Featuring a new band (the
lone holdovers responsible for BDR's classically-leaning
alt.country-styled debut Ring are Wald and pedal steel player
Brian O'Neil), a new sound (gritty electric guitars galore,
dangerous dalliances with distortion, sandpaper raw vocals) and a
vastly different lyrical vision, SNRC is defined by its
willingness to break from convention and defy expectations.
(pulsetc.com)
Big Ditch Road had been working at the Terrarium Studios in NE
Minneapolis and this release comes only 9 months after 2005's
critically acclaimed "Suicide Note Reader's Companion". Fueled by
a spring filled with touring, the band is sounding tighter than
they ever have been. While specifics regarding this new record had
been sketchy, reports suggested the EP was "loud".
Sounding a bit more hopeful than on their previous CD, "Suicide
Note Reader's Companion," arty country-rockers Big Ditch Road have
turned six new songs into a fine EP, "The Great Dissent," which
they're promoting Saturday at the Hexagon Bar. The disc includes
one Son Volt-y rocker, "Aren't These Condos Killer(s)?," which
joins U Joint's "We Need More Luxury Condos" to officially make
this the year of the high-rise diss song. (startribune.com)